A drone strike killed 4 individuals in government-held jap Syria on Wednesday in an space managed by Iran-backed factions, a struggle monitor mentioned. “Four people were killed and eight wounded in a drone strike near a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed groups and near a truck loaded with weapons,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights informed AFP.

There was no instant phrase on who carried out the strike within the jap metropolis of Deir Ezzor.

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It focused part of town that’s residence to residences of high Iranian commanders and senior officers of Lebanon’s Hezbollah motion in addition to an Iranian hospital to deal with cholera sufferers, Abdel Rahman mentioned.

Pro-Iran factions aligned with the Syrian authorities, together with Hezbollah, are closely deployed south and west of the Euphrates River which runs via Deir Ezzor province.

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Wednesday’s assault adopted a collection of unclaimed drone strikes on January 30 that focused a suspected Iranian weapons convoy within the province and killed 11 individuals, together with a pro-Iranian commander, the Observatory mentioned.