The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Drone attack | Iranian-backed foreign commander killed in west Euphrates region

Deir Ezzor Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported that a drone struck, this dawn, the house of a commander of Turkish-backed militias and a military vehicle in Al-Sayyal town, which is located nearly 11 kilometres to the north-west of Al-Bokamal city, on the western bank of the Euphrates river in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, near the Syria-Iraq border. The attack resulted in the death of a commander of a non-Syrian nationality and the injury of five militiamen, as the drone targeted the militiamen with a missile after it had struck the commander’s house. However, it is not known if the drone was affiliated to the International Coalition, Israel or another body. Meanwhile, reliable sources have told SOHR that the targeted commander was of the Afghani Liwa Fatemiyoun.

 

On March 22, an unidentified drone targeted oil wells in Al-Bokamal desert in rural Deir Ezzor, near the Syria-Iraq border. According to SOHR sources the targeted wells were rehabilitated by Iranian-backed militias, after they had been destroyed by ISIS during its control of the area. However, no casualties were reported.