A fierce war between the Iranian militias and the Russian forces in two Syrian provinces

ARK News: A number of people were killed and wounded on Friday, 19/4/2019, in clashes between Russian and Iranian forces in the two Syrian provinces of Deir al-Zour and Aleppo, according to informed local sources.

The Anatolia news agency from private sources said that a checkpoint of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard militia stopped a convoy of Russian military police in the city of al-Mayadin in the countryside of Deir al-Zour (east), which resulted in altercations which turned into clashes.

The clashes between the two sides resulted in two deaths in the ranks of the Revolutionary Guard and wounding four members of the military police, according to the same sources.

In Aleppo city, clashes broke out between the two sides at the international airport in the east of the city, and the losses have not known yet.

However, the sources pointed out that the clashes in Aleppo occurred after the claims of Russian forces to the Revolutionary Guards and groups belonging to Iran, to the evacuation of the airport.

The sources confirm that tension and competition for hegemony between Russian and other Iranian forces in Syria have increased recently.

It is worth mentioning that violent clashes broke out earlier this year between the so-called "Tiger Forces" loyal to Russia led by Suhail al-Hasan, and the Fourth Military Division, supported by Iran and led by Maher al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The competition between Russia and Iran in the areas of the Syrian regime has intensified to the extent that observers have described it as an undeclared "cold war" between the two parties in order to control the country's resources and decision.

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