The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The Coalition targets a position of the regime forces in the south-east of Palmyra city killing and injuring 8 members 4 days after a strike killed 55 Iranian militiamen and others loyal to the regime

Homs Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions rocked the south-eastern desert of Palmyra today evening, Thursday the 21st of June 2018, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the International Coalition’s warplanes targeted a position of the regime forces and a vehicle, in the area of Halbeh in the south-eastern desert of Palmyra, at a distance of about 50 km away from Palmyra city, and near the International Coalition’s area of presence in the vicinity of Al-Tanf, where intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the bombardment resulted in the death and injury of 8 members at least of the regime forces including a member whose death is confirmed, while the death toll is expected to increase due to the presence of injured cases in serious conditions, and the strikes targeted the area while a military vehicle was moving in it.

And these strikes come 4 days after the strike which targeted the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, on the 17th of June 2018, and killed 55 members at least including 16 members of the regime forces (including 4 officers) and 30 Iranians, while the nationalities of the other 9 are not known until now, it worth mentioning that the warplanes that targeting the above-mentioned sites have used the same airspace used by the International Coalition warplanes, and the death toll is expected to rise because there are some people in critical situation.