‘On Tuesday eight Syrian fighters working with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed in a knife attack on their position in eastern Syria’s Deir Ezzor province’, said a war monitor.
‘Unidentified armed individuals raided the position in the Syrian desert, in the second deadly attack on pro-Iran fighters in two days in the Mayadeen area’, said The Syrian Observatory.
Control of Deir Ezzor is split between US-backed Kurdish-led forces to the east of the Euphrates river and Iran-backed Syrian government forces and their proxies to the west, while Islamic State (IS) group jihadists are also active in the province.
The Observatory said gunmen killed three Syrians on Monday who were also working with the Revolutionary Guards, in an attack on a military position on the outskirts of Mayadeen city.
Iran-backed groups have strengthen President Bashar al-Assad’s forces since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011. Thousands of pro-Iran proxy fighters are deployed in Deir Ezzor province.
In Syria in 2019 IS was defeated territorially, but its remnants continue to carry out deadly attacks in the vast Badia desert which runs from the outskirts of Damascus to the Iraqi border.
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