Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/BEIRUT: At least even citizens have been killed after air strikes destroyed a convoy of trucks that crossed into eastern Syria from Iraq.
According to the Arab News, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that seven were “truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians,” and also said that they were killed as a result of unidentified aircraft targeting the convoy of Iran-backed groups.
Air strikes
The air strikes destroyed the convoy of six refrigerated trucks transporting Iranian arms in the Albu Kamal border region, the Observatory, which has a world network of sources inside Syria, said.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said that the trucks were transporting Iranian arms.
Tehran provides army support to its ally Damascus in Syria’s civil war, including through armed factions.
The Observatory said that at least two similar convoys had entered Syria from Iraq this week, offloading their cargo to pro-Iran groups in the town of Al-Mayadeen.
Pro-Iran militias, including Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group, have a main presence around the Syira-Iraq border, and are heavily deployed south and west of the Euphrates in Syria. Both Al-Mayadeen and Albu Kamal are in Deir Ezzor, and Albu Kamal has seen similar strikes in the past.
