At least eight fighters from the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces were killed by raids carried out by unknown aircraft, on Friday night, on sites belonging to the pro-Iranian faction in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.
And local media sources in Syria reported that there were explosions in the sky of the city of Albukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border after flying unknown planes in the sky of the city.
News websites loyal to the Syrian regime said that the explosions were caused by targeting trucks and individuals at the Syrian-Iraqi border.
A spokesman for the international coalition led by Washington denied to Agence France-Presse that his forces had launched any strikes in the region.
Since Wednesday, at least three villages in the Albukamal countryside have been hit by unidentified drones and did not cause casualties.
And spread in the countryside Albukamal armed Shiite groups loyal to Tehran, which has great influence within the Popular Mobilization Foundation and the factions under its banner.
The crowd factions suffered a heavy blow with the killing of its deputy chief, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was considered the first man in Tehran in Iraq, along with the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, with an American strike near Baghdad airport on the third of this month.
Soleimani was considered the architect of Iranian politics in the countries of the region, especially Iraq and Syria, and the pro-Iranian Shiite groups in Syria are fighting alongside the regime forces.
On Wednesday, Iran fired 22 missiles at the Ein al-Assad bases in western Iraq and Erbil in the north, in response to the assassination of Soleimani and his companions by Washington, in light of the escalation of tension in the region.