Six pro-Iranian fighters were killed as a result of an air strike, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested was Israeli, on Monday night on sites in eastern Syria where fighter groups supported by Tehran are deployed.

After midnight, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that two Syrian soldiers were injured as a result of another Israeli strike that targeted military sites near the city of Deir ez-Zor in the east of the country.

The Observatory reported that “six non-Syrian fighters were killed as a result of an aerial bombardment likely to have been Israeli that targeted, on Monday evening, three sites of pro-Iranian groups in an area near the city of Albukamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi border.”

Iranian and Iraqi forces and groups loyal to Tehran, including Lebanese Hezbollah, are deployed in a large area in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, especially between the cities of Al-Bukamal and Al-Mayadeen. The Observatory estimates the number of members of these groups at about 15,000 fighters.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense, for its part, reported other strikes that targeted sites in the same governorate.

It stated in a statement that around 23:50 (20:50 GMT) on Monday evening, “the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack on some of our armed forces’ positions in the vicinity of the city of Deir ez-Zor,” which led to “two soldiers being injured and some material losses occurring.” .

For its part, the Observatory counted the wounding of four members of the regime forces, two of whom were in critical condition.

According to the Observatory, military air forces and pro-Iranian groups are stationed at the targeted location.

Since the start of the conflict in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting regime forces positions and Iranian and Hezbollah targets.

It rarely confirms the implementation of strikes, but it repeatedly confronts what it describes as Iran's attempts to establish its military presence in Syria.

On September 14, two Syrian soldiers were killed as a result of Israeli bombing on Tartous Governorate in the west of the country.

Since 2011, Syria has witnessed a bloody, multi-faceted conflict, which has caused the death of more than half a million people, massive destruction of infrastructure, and the displacement and displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside the country.