Ten Iranian-affiliated fighters were killed and thirty others were injured in strikes on Saturday, December 30 “probably American” who targeted sites in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported.
Iran supports armed groups accused by Washington of being behind an increase in attacks against its forces in the Middle East, against a backdrop of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Islamist movement is supported by the“axis of resistance”which includes Tehran.
“Ten pro-Iran fighters, three of whom are Syrian, were killed and more than thirty injured” in at least nine airstrikes “probably American” having targeted military positions in Al-Boukamal and its surroundings, in the border province of Deir ez-Zor, announced the OSDH. A shipment of weapons from Iraq and an ammunition warehouse were also targeted and large explosions rang out, added the OSDH, an organization based in the United Kingdom but which has a vast network of sources in the country at war.
Hezbollah announces the death of fighters
For its part, Lebanese Hezbollah, supported by Tehran, announced on Saturday that four of its fighters had been killed “on the road to Jerusalem”, term used by the formation to designate its members who have fallen since October 7. The group did not provide further details.
These strikes are carried out against a backdrop of increasing attacks by pro-Iran groups targeting the American army in Syria and Iraq since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7. Around 2,500 American soldiers are in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part of the fight against the jihadist group Islamic State. In mid-November, eight fighters affiliated with Iran were killed in American strikes which targeted two sites in the same province, according to the OSDH.
At least 105 attacks against American targets in Syria and Iraq have been recorded by Washington since mid-October, according to an American military official who requested anonymity. The majority were claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq group, which denounces American support for Israel.
On Monday, Brigadier General Razi Mousavi, a senior commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations branch and elite unit of the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was killed by a missile strike, south of Damascus. Tehran accused Israel, which did not deny it.