Seven people have been killed in an airstrike on a convoy of trucks carrying weapons from Iraq to Syria.
The news agency AFP has said with reference to the organization "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights" that "the seven people who were killed were truck drivers and their assistants who are not Syrian citizens."
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory, told AFP that the air strike was carried out in the eastern Syrian border region of Albu Kamal, in which six trucks full of Iranian weapons were destroyed.
The government of Tehran has been supporting Bashar al-Assad's government in Damascus during the civil war, including supplying weapons.
According to the organization, this week two convoys of trucks carrying Iranian weapons entered Syria from Iraq and arrived in al-Mayadeen, a region of the pro-Iran group.
Pro-Iranian groups, including Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah, are organized in the Iraq-Syria border region.
Israel and the US have been targeting targets in this area before.
In November last year, "oil tankers and trucks full of weapons" were targeted by a pro-Iran group in the area, killing 14 people, but an Iraqi border guard official denied the deaths.
The US-backed armed group is also active in the region against ISIS.
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