BAGHDAD — Unidentified aircraft targeted a truck convoy stationed on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq on Sunday night, an Iraqi border official said on Monday.
Multiple airstrikes destroyed part of a 10-truck convoy that had used the Qaim border crossing from Iraq to cross into Syria on Saturday, the border official said.
The border crossing is close to the Syrian town of Abu Kamal, also known as Al Bukamal, which is near to where the US military carried out airstrikes on Friday against two facilities it said were used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it backs. Those airstrikes were carried out in response to a spate of attacks against US forces in both Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon said.
Two Iraqi militia sources also said on Monday that airstrikes by unidentified aircraft on Sunday hit a building the militia was using near Abu Kamal.
The building struck by the attack was evacuated by their militia fighters on Saturday and no casualties were reported, the sources said.
Reuters was unable to independently verify that the attacks occurred.
targeted a truck convoy stationed on the Syrian side of the
border with Iraq on Sunday night, an Iraqi border official said
on Monday.
Multiple airstrikes destroyed part of a 10-truck convoy
that had used the Qaim border crossing from Iraq to cross into
Syria on Saturday, the border official said.
The border...