A further report claimed that one of those killed was a Hezbollah commander.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitor, had reported three explosions and the presence of unidentified aircraft that day in the eastern city of Dier-ez-Zor.
Syria hosts several militias financed by Iran, which have attacked not only Israeli forces but American troops as well since war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October.
Those include Hezbollah, which controls much of Southern Lebanon and has been firing rockets and missiles into the north of Israel since October 7, leading to regular exchanges of fire and the evacuation of about 100,000 people away from their homes near the Israel-Lebanon border. READ MORE
