U.S. Sends More Troops to Syria Border With Iraq

Date: 18 July 2018 - 21:29

News ID: ۵۵۲۴۳

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – The U.S. Army dispatched a long convoy of troops and equipment to southeastern Dayr al-Zawr as the U.S.-led coalition fighter jets once again targeted residential areas in the region on Wednesday.
The coalition forwarded a long column, including several military vehicles and heavy weapons and equipment to southeastern Dayr al-Zawr at Syria's border with Iraq.
In the meantime, the fighter jets intensified their attacks on several regions in southeastern Dayr al-Zawr, destroying infrastructures and residential areas.
The number of casualties is still unknown due to the heavy bombardment.
Early reports said all members of at least two families have been killed in the air attacks on al-Souseh.
The warplanes have been bombing villages, townships and towns in Dayr al-Zawr under the pretext of war on the Daesh terrorists group.
On Monday, eight civilians were killed and several more were wounded in a fresh round of air attacks by the U.S.-led coalition fighter jets in Dayr al-Zawr.
The warplanes bombed several times the township of al-Souseh in southeastern Dayr al-Zawr, killing eight civilians, including women and children, and wounding at least a dozen others.
Local sources said that some of the injured were in critical conditions, adding that the township's infrastructures and residential units sustained major damage in the attacks.
In another development, a number of terrorists of Tahrir al-Sham Hay'at were killed or wounded after a bomb-laden vehicle exploded at a base of the terrorist group in northern Idlib on Wednesday.
Scores of Tahrir al-Sham gunmen were killed or wounded after a bomb-laden vehicle exploded at a base of the terrorist group's military police in the town of al-Dana in northern Idlib.
Local sources reported the blast was so heavy that destroyed the nearby buildings.
In the meantime, at least two Tahrir al-Sham terrorists were killed and several more were wounded after unknown raiders opened fire at their base in the town of Kafr Yahmoul in Northern Idbli.