Alwaght- A military advisor of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has been assassinated in an overnight airstrike by the US occupation warplanes on eastern Syria, according to Press TV.
According to media reports, he was martyred when a US warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in Deir Ez-Zor province in early hours of Tuesday.
The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) confirmed the reports of the US attack, saying “seven soldiers and one civilian” were killed in the aerial aggression launched by US occupation forces on several villages, towns and military sites in the eastern province.
The news agency added the airstrikes also left 19 soldiers and 13 civilians injured, causing material damage to public and private property.
Syrian media said US warplanes carried out 10 simultaneous strikes on residential neighborhoods and military installations in the province, including the cities of Dayr al-Zawr, Mayadin and Bukamal.
Iran maintains an advisory mission in Syria at the request of Damascus to help the war-torn Arab country defeat the foreign-backed militants who have been fighting the democratically-elected government since 2011.
Israeli regime and the US frequently target military positions inside Syria.
Their strikes target resistance forces that helped Damascus defeat ISIS and other foreign-backed terrorist organizations during years of civil war.
Their attacks on Syria's civilian and military infrastructure have grown in intensity since Israel ignited its bloody war machine in the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
