DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – An unidentified drone has targeted positions held by Iraqi resistance groups in Syria’s border city of al-Bukamal in the eastern Dayr al-Zawr province.
Citing an informed security source, Al Jazeera TV channel reported the attack early on Saturday. Iraqi officials and the anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi have not yet commented on the report.
Some Iraqi media reported that anti-terror groups had downed an American drone conducting a hostile mission against resistance units on the Iraqi-Syrian border, using aviation warfare (AW) systems.
The border between Bukamal and the Iraqi town of al-Qa’im is the only major crossing between Iraq and Syria that is run by the governments of the two neighboring countries.
The Bukamal crossing was liberated by the resistance front from the grip of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group four years ago, and since then American fighter jets have conducted deadly aerial assaults on the area.
The Zionist regime also carries out air raids on positions inside Syria in flagrant violation of the UN Charter, international law, and Security Council resolutions that urge respect for the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Meanwhile, Syria’s air defenses have thwarted a missile attack by the Zionist regime on a military airbase in the country’s central province of Homs, shooting down most of the missiles, Syrian state media say.
The Zionist regime attacked the military’s T-4 airbase in the desert on Friday evening, the Syrian official news agency SANA reported.
“At around 9:33 p.m. this evening, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of the al-Tanf area, with rockets launched toward the T-4 military airport in the central province,” it said, citing an unnamed military source as saying.
“Syria’s air defense confronted the aggressor’s missiles and shot down most of them,” the source stressed, adding that the latest aggression by the occupying regime also wounded “six soldiers” and resulted in “some material losses.”
The Zionist regime frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.
The occupying regime often violates the Lebanese airspace to launch its attacks against neighboring Syria.
Early last month, the Syrian air defenses managed to destroy 21 out of 24 guided missiles fired by four Israeli Air Force F-15 tactical fighters at targets in Syria from Lebanese airspace, the Russian military in the Arab country reported at the time.
Back in August, Lebanon lodged a complaint with the UN after the occupying regime’s warplanes violated once again the Arab country’s airspace to carry out separate airstrikes against positions near the Syrian capital city of Damascus and the western city of Homs.
In another development, the United States dispatched a large convoy of trucks carrying arms and logistic supplies to Syria’s oil-rich province of Hasakah from northern Iraq, Syrian state media says.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources, reported on Friday that a U.S. military convoy of 56 trucks and tankers, loaded with weapons, ammunition, and logistic materials, entered al-Qahtaniyah region in Hasakah northeastern countryside.
It added that the convoy, which entered the region through the illegal al-Walid border crossing earlier in the day, was also accompanied by eight new Hummer military vehicles and a number of vehicles belonging to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group.