SOHR activists, in west Euphrates region, have reported hearing loud explosion in the early hours of Wednesday, due to an air bombardment by unknown aircrafts which might be coming from the International Coalition or Israel.
The attack has targeted positions and warehouses of weapons belonging to Iranian factions in al-Bokmal city at the Iraqi-Syrian borders in east Deir Ezzor.
The attacks destroyed the arms and ammunition warehouses and caused huge explosions that could have been heard in al-Baghouz stationed at the other bank of Euphrates River stationed under the SDF, but no casualties have been reported.
Yesterday, SOHR activists reported seeing smoke plumes rising in areas controlled by Iranian-backed militias near the Syria-Iraq border, opposite al-Baghouz town, the latest ISIS stronghold in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
The rising of smoke plums in that area coincided with flights by unidentified drones over the area. However, it is not known yet if the smoke was caused by strikes by these drones or not.
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On November 7, SOHR activists, in west Euphrates that became Iranian colony on Syrian lands, that factions affiliated to Iran had started days ago intensive redeployment in cities and villages along the road from al-Mayadeen to al-Bokamal at Iraqi-Syrian borders in east Deir Ezzor countryside.
The activities are considered as a repeated operation for camouflage over fears of the repeated targets by the Israeli side and the International Coalition.
The redeployment operations are conducted through exchanging posts, positions and forces. Also, the factions bring in military reinforcement daily to their posts and positions and fortify those position continuously.
It was ealier reported that, unidentified aircraft hit a base run by Iranian-backed militias in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al Zor near the Iraqi border where Tehran has in the last year expanded its military presence, residents and military sources said on Monday.
They said the strikes were south of the town of Mayadeen along the Euphrates River which has become a major base for several Shi’ite militias, mostly from Iraq, since Islamic State militants were driven out nearly four years ago.
Iranian-backed militia fighters patrolling the streets were put on heightened alert and ambulances were seen rushing to the desert outskirts of the city after several explosions were heard, two residents said.
“Panicky militias were calling on pedestrians and cars to clear the city centre and main streets around it,” Ahmad al Shawi, a resident told Reuters in a text message.
The militias now control the mainly Sunni tribal town, part of a growing presence across Deir al Zor province, residents and military sources say.
The air attacks were not immediately reported on Syrian state media, which has previously denied that thousands of Iranian-backed militia fighters are deployed across large parts of the country.
Israel, alarmed by Iran’s growing regional influence and military presence in Syria, says it has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria to slow down Iranian entrenchment.
Over the past year, strikes by unmanned Israeli aircraft have concentrated on the border town of Albu Kamal, south east of Mayadeen, that lies on a strategic supply route for Iranian-backed militias who regularly send reinforcements from Iraq into Syria.
The Iranian-backed militias are also in control of large stretches of the frontier on the Iraqi side.
Western intelligence sources say Israel has expanded air strikes on suspected arms transfers and deployments by Iranian backed militia and their Lebanese Hezbollah allies which support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
