ERBIL — Pro-Iran Shia militias in northeast of Syria have brought in a shipment of surface-to-surface missiles to Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.
The shipment was received by the militias stationed in al-Mazarea area in Al-Mayadeen desert, in west of Euphrates, from Iraq "via an illegal crossing," the Britain-based monitoring group added.
"Iranian missiles “Fajr 5” have been entered from Iraq in vegetables trucks and they are now stored in underground warehouses in Al-Mazarea area in Al-Mayadeen desert."
According to SOHR, Iran-backed militias in Syria have previously brought in "hundreds of shipments loaded with weapons, missiles and ammunition into areas under their control in Deir Ezzor and Al-Raqqah countryside, via illegal crossings with Iraq and by vegetable vehicles for fear of being targeted by the International Coalition or Israel."