US Strikes Near Syria-Iraq Border Kill 5 Militia Fighters: Monitor

BEIRUT, LEBANON - US strikes on eastern Syria near the border with Iraq killed at least five Iran-backed militia fighters, a war monitor reported on Monday. 

"At least 5 Iran-backed Iraqi militia fighters were killed and several others were wounded in an attack by US warplanes" on the Syrian side of the frontier, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.  The war monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria to collect information, said that military positions were among the targets hit.  Syria's state-run SANA news agency said one child had been killed, and that at least three other people were wounded.