Multiple drones reportedly belonging to the Israeli Air Force (IAF) carried out a new series of airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in the area of Deir Ez-Zur in eastern Syria over the weekend.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that a total of 8 airstrikes targeted the Afghan Liwa Fatemiyoun militia which was transferred to Syria on orders of Qassem Soleimani, the assassinated commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The attack, which killed 12 Afghan militia members took place just before midnight on Sunday evening and destroyed recent fortifications and Iranian weapon deliveries to the bases of Liwa Fatemiyoun in the Deir Ez-Zur Province.
Although the IAF kept mum on the strikes, Rami Abdul Rahman, the director of SOHR, said he was confident Israel was responsible for the bombardment.
The incident on Sunday evening came just three days after Israeli warplanes used missiles to destroy another Iranian facility in west Syria in the vicinity of the city of Masyaf.
The Iranian staffed facility near Masyaf has been targeted before by the IAF and produces among other weaponry guided missiles. Syria reported that its air defenses were activated during the Israeli attack but no IAF plane was hit, a pattern that repeats itself every time Israel carries out airstrikes in Syria.
The attack on the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, which is also known as CERS, a defense laboratory that manufactures chemical arms and advanced missiles was preceded by another Israeli aerial attack on Iranian militias in eastern Syria that killed five Iranian-trained fighters. READ MORE
