At least 23 pro-government fighters were killed by a fresh Israeli missile strike in eastern Syria after midnight, a war monitor reported on Wednesday.
The Intense missile strike targeted positions of Syrian forces and allied Iranian-backed fighters in the area extending from the city of Deir al-Zour to the al-Bukamal area on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Seven of those killed were Syrians while the rest are Iranian-backed fighters, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based watchdog ... [see source for more information]