Dozens of Shiite militants, including two senior field commanders, were killed in an air strike on a convoy near Bochmal town in northeastern Syria
The convoy bombed in southeast Syria
Thirty-five pro-Iranian militants were killed in an unknown source of air strikes in southeastern Syria, Turkish state-run news agency "Andulo" reported on Saturday.
The attack took place near the town of Buchmal, an area where several Shiite militias were defending the Iraqi border crossing and the base of the Imam Ali Revolutionary Guards, located near the Iraqi border.
According to the report, the attack hit several vehicles traveling in a convoy near the entrance to Buchmal and two killed were senior commanders of one of the militia organizations. The identity of the attacking aircraft is unknown, but in the past the Israeli and US Air Force carried out attacks against targets in the area.
Syrian social networks claim that the Herods are members of the Iraqi Hezbollah regiments as well as the Najba, an Iraqi Shiite militia. The photo of one of the dead, an officer in Najba, was circulated on social networks.
Two days ago, Syrian news site "Deir al-Zor 24" reported widespread US and Kurdish action in the vicinity of Buchmal, a police operation to capture activists in the ISIS terrorist organization. According to reports, special forces were deployed in the town's area using helicopters in the dead of night and dozens of suspects belonging to the terrorist organization.
Deir al-Zor district, in which Bochmal town is located, is an area that is largely Sunni but controlled by Assad regime forces and pro-Iranian militias, which need a border crossing to Iraq located in the province to hold the Tehran-Beirut route, extending from Iran, through Iraq, Syria. And Lebanon.