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On January 7, a strike hit a truck with an unknown payload close to the eastern Syrian town of al-Bukamal, which is located next to the border with Iraq.
The truck reportedly entered Syrian territory minutes before being targeted. Two non-Syrian Iranian-backed fighters were severely wounded, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human (SOHR), which speculated that the strike was carried out by a combat drone of the United States military.
The Beiut-based Al Mayadeen TV, which is close to the Iran-led “Axis of Resistance,” reported the strike but said there were no casualties.
A few minutes after the strike near al-Bukamal, Al Mayadeen TV said that a drone attack launched from Iraq targeted a base of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Hebrew media didn’t report any warning sirens or blasts in the Golan and the IDF didn’t announce any attack on the Heights.
Both the U.S. and Israel carried out strikes against targets affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its allies in Syria following the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, which led to a wave of attacks against U.S. forces in both Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iranian-backed armed factions, claimed responsibility for most of the attacks that targeted U.S. forces and announced several other attacks against Israel, including two that targeted the Golan Heights.
More than 20 Iranian-backed fighters, including four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah, were reportedly killed on December 30 when a series of strikes hit al-Bukamal. Neither the U.S. or Israel have claimed responsibility for the deadly strikes.
