An Israeli research center said on Wednesday that Iran sent a shipment of weapons to local and foreign Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria.
The shipment that was sent in early May included suicide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and was delivered to the local and foreign militias affiliated with Iran, Alma Research and Education Center cited several sources as saying, reports North Press Agency.
The center added that the shipment was smuggled into Syria through one of the illegal border crossings with Iraq, east of the town of Abu Kamal in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The area is under the control of Kata’ib Hezbollah, a radical Iraqi Shiite group that is a part of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), in coordination with the 4th Armored Division, commanded by Maher al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
According to the center, all the shipments crossing from Iraq to Syria are centered around al-Sikak complex, a highly secured area containing warehouses military barracks.
It indicated that the shipment arrived at the village of al-Salihiyah near the town of al-Mayadin in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The Alma center said al-Salihiyah is considered one of the main centers used by Kata’ib-Hezbollah and Lebanese Hezbollah for launching reconnaissance UAVs toward the areas in the eastern bank of the Euphrates River.
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