An airstrike in eastern Syria on Sunday killed five Iranian-backed fighters, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
According to French news agency AFP, the strike targeted three military vehicles belonging to Iran-backed paramilitary fighters near the Iraqi border. The Observatory attributed the strike to the Israeli Air Force, saying that Israel "was likely responsible" for the attack near the border town of Albu Kamal.
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The IDF Spokesperson Unit said it does not comment on reports in the foreign media.
Iranian-backed militias and their allies command a significant presence in eastern Syria south of the Euphrates Valley.
Earlier this month, airstrikes on a base controlled by Iran-backed forces near Albu Kamal killed seven fighters, according to the Observatory.
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The monitor said that military reinforcements for Iranian militias and their allies had arrived in the area days before.
Israel has repeatedly warned that it will not allow Tehran to entrench itself militarily in Syria, Israel's neighbor to the north.
In 2018, the IDF admitted to hundreds of airstrikes as part of its "campaign between the wars," an ongoing military and intelligence effort to disrupt the force build-up of the Iranian-Shiite axis throughout the Middle East.
This article was originally published by i24NEWS.
