Car bombing kills two pro-Iran fighters in Syria

A car bombing killed two pro-Iran fighters in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday (8 June), a war monitor said. An explosive device went off in an SUV near the Iranian cultural centre, killing two Iran-backed fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc smc

Government forces and Iran-backed groups

Imposed a security cordon around the site of the attack, said the Observatory, a Britain-based organisation with a network of sources on the ground in the war-torn country.

It was unclear who was behind the attack in Deir Ezzor city, a stronghold of Tehran that is home to Iranian advisers, institutions, and the cultural centre.

Control of Deir Ezzor province, an oil-rich region bordering Iraq, is split between Kurdish forces to the east of the Euphrates and Iran-backed Syrian government forces and their proxies to the west.

Iran-backed groups including Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement have bolstered President Bashar al-Assad’s forces since the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011.

The Syrian government’s brutal suppression of a 2011 Car bombing

Uprising triggered a conflict that has killed more than half a million people and drawn in foreign armies and jihadists.

An explosive device went off in an SUV near the Iranian cultural center, killing two Iran-backed fighters, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has criticized for inflating regime losses in the past.

Government forces and Iran-backed groups imposed a security cordon around the site of the attack, says the Observatory, a Britain-based organization with a network of sources on the ground in the war-torn country.

It is unclear who was behind the attack in Deir Ezzor city, a stronghold of Tehran that is home to Iranian advisers, institutions, and the cultural center.

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