Media outlets in Syria on Wednesday night reported a large explosion at the headquarters of a pro-Iranian Shiite militia in the city of Al Bukamal in the country's east, near the border with Iraq.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a civilian watchdog group, reported that aerial drones carried out several attacks on facilities used by the pro-Iranian militias in the area. Five militiamen were killed in the attack, the Observatory said.
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Eye-witnesses, meanwhile, told the Observatory that the drones struck a facility belonging to Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
It was not the first time that Iranian targets have been targeted in the Al Bukamal area, where Iran is building its sprawling Imam Ali base – the flagship project of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Middle East.
Located between Al Bukamal in Syria and the Iraqi border town Al-Qa'im, the Imam Ali base is part of a project by the IRGC known as the "green belt," whose purpose is to facilitate the transfer of militia fighters and weapons from Iran to southern Syria and Lebanon, via Iraq and Syria.
On Monday, the Observatory said an alleged Israeli missile strike overnight Sunday near the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least three foreigners, most likely Iranians.
