US Strikes Near Syria-Iraq Border Kill 5 Militia Fighters: War Monitor

Monday, 28 June 2021Newsdesk

US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported on Monday. "At least 5 Iran-backed Iraqi militia fighters were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by US warplanes" on the Syrian side of the frontier, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

New Delhi, 28 June 2021

As per news report of NDTV, The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria to collect information, said that military positions were among the targets hit. Syria's state-run SANA news agency said one child had been killed, and that at least three other people were wounded. The strikes, confirmed by the Pentagon in a statement, mark the second such US attack on Iran-backed militias in Syria since President Joe Biden took office. They targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one in Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement. The facilities were used by militia groups, including Kataeb Hezbollah and Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada, two hardline Iraqi military factions with close ties to Tehran, the Pentagon added.

Source -NDTV