BEIRUT, June 18, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The death toll in an overnight bombing
raid on pro-regime forces in eastern Syria has risen to 52 loyalist fighters,
the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday.
“Among them are at least 30 Iraqi fighters and 16 Syrians, including
soldiers and members of loyalist militias,” the monitor’s chief Rami Abdel
Rahman told AFP, adding that the remaining six fighters were not immediately
identifiable.
Syrian state media blamed the strike on the US-led coalition, which denied
involvement.