In a recent development, a minimum of six Iran-backed militants were killed in airstrikes at the Syria-Iraq border, as confirmed by two Iraqi militia members to The Associated Press on Saturday.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization had earlier announced the death of four of its operatives in Israeli attacks, as reported by Walla. These four were part of the six who lost their lives in eastern Syria. The remaining two were identified as Syrian fighters by the Iraqi militia members.
The Israel-Hamas War has seen the death toll of Hezbollah members rise to over 160.
Arab media outlets have reported airstrikes against locations associated with pro-Iranian militias in the Boukamal region of Syria, near the Iraq border. Lebanese source Al-Mayadeen has attributed these airstrikes to Israel.
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights reported that the attacks targeted a weapons depot, a convoy of militants traveling from Iraq to Syria, and a training complex owned by the pro-Iranian militia. The organization suggests that the actual death toll at the border is nine, with three of them being Syrian nationals. It attributes the strike to US forces and warns that the "death toll is likely to increase due to the presence of more than 27 injured members of the militias."
The Associated Press reported that the border attack occurred hours after an Iran-backed Iraqi militant group, known as the Islamic Resistance, claimed responsibility for an attack on a US military base in the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. The militant group has launched attacks on over 100 US positions in Iraq and eastern Syria since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
This news follows closely on the heels of Iran's announcement of the death of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. Mousavi, who was responsible for coordinating between the IRGC and Syria, was reportedly killed in an Israeli attack in Damascus.
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