Overnight Strikes Leave Dozens of Pro-Regime Fighters Dead in Syria - It's Over 9000!

Overnight Strikes Leave Dozens of Pro-Regime Fighters Dead in Syria

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Fifty-two pro-regime fighters were killed in overnight strikes in Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Monday.

The regime blamed the US-led coalition fighting ISIS for the strike in the eastern town of al-Hari, which is controlled by pro-regime fighters, but the alliance has denied the charge.

"No member of the US-led coalition carried out strikes near Albu Kamal," Major Josh Jacques, a US Central Command spokesman, told Reuters.

Dozens of "non-Syrian fighters from regime loyalist militias were killed in the night-time raid on al-Hari, on the Syrian-Iraqi border," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. 

The Britain-based monitor said unidentified planes had struck Lebanon's “Hezbollah” and other allied foreign militias around Boukamal.

Syrian regime media reported the attack overnight, citing a military source and accusing the US-led coalition of carrying it out.

It said several people were killed and wounded but did not give a specific number or their nationalities.

Source: Asharq Alawsat 

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