(Beirut) Two pro-Iranian fighters were killed on Saturday in a car bomb attack in Deir Ezzor, a town in eastern Syria, an NGO reported.
An explosive device detonated in a vehicle near the Iranian cultural center, killing two Iranian-backed fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), which did not say who was behind the attack. attack.
Government forces and Iranian-backed groups set up a security cordon around the site of the attack, added the Observatory, a UK-based NGO with an extensive network of sources in Syria.
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, which divided the country, Iran and pro-Iran groups, notably the powerful Lebanese movement Hezbollah, have supported the power of President Bashar al-Assad.
The province of Deir Ezzor, rich in oil and bordering Iraq, is divided between an area controlled by Kurdish forces east of the Euphrates and another west of the river held by Syrian government forces.
Iran is present in this sector, where Iranian advisors, institutions and the cultural center are located.
Triggered in 2011 by the repression of pro-democracy demonstrations, the conflict in Syria has caused more than half a million deaths and reduced its infrastructure to shreds.