Syria: Weapons truck from Iraq targeted by unknown drone

Iraqi security forces walk on the Iraqi side of the border-crossing between Al-Qaim in Iraq and Albu Kamal in Syria, on September 30, 2019. [Photo credit should read MOADH AL-DULAIMI/AFP via Getty Images]

An unknown drone targeted a truck on Thursday evening near a military headquarters for Iranian militias near the Iraqi border close to the city of Albukamal in eastern Syria. Media activist Jassim Al-Alawi told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the targeting killed the driver of the truck loaded with weapons, which entered Syrian territory from Iraq, in addition to a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-backed militias, as well as the injury of a number of civilians who were near the truck.

Al-Alawi explained that the truck was targeted after it entered the village of Al-Sukariyah, near the city of Albukamal, within the area under the control of the Syrian regime in the eastern countryside of Deir Ez-Zor Governorate, east Syria. The local Naher Media network reported that a member of Al-Faraj militia affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed as a result, in addition to a 13-year-old, while four others were injured, including a child.

Human rights activist Abu Omar Al-Bukamali told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the vehicle was hit on Al-Sukariyah Road while it was heading to the separation point between Albukamal and the Al-Sukariyah area, where the headquarters for the Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun militias is located. He noted that the vehicle entered from Iraq, and that information confirms that at least one person was killed, in addition to wounded people who were transferred to the Al-Quds field hospital, which is supervised by the IRGC and about 200 metres away from the explosion site.

In a related context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that a US cargo plane landed on Thursday afternoon at the Kharab Al-Jir base in Rmelan, north of Al-Hasakah Governorate in the far northeast of Syria. It was carrying military and logistical reinforcements coming from Iraq, coinciding with the intensive flight of warplanes, drones and military helicopters around the base.

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