Activist groups say US airstrikes targeting positions of Iranian-allied forces in Syria killed four

Activist groups say US airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed fighters in Syria have killed at least four people.Deir Ezzor 24 and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights offered the tolls on Friday for the attacks. Deir Ezzor 24 put the toll at four people, while the Observatory said 11 had been killed.The Associated Press could not immediately independently confirm the reports.

Activist groups say US airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed fighters in Syria have killed at least four people.

Deir Ezzor 24 and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights offered the tolls on Friday for the attacks. Deir Ezzor 24 put the toll at four people, while the Observatory said 11 had been killed.

The Associated Press could not immediately independently confirm the reports. Iran and Syria have yet to offer any casualty figures for the attack and their officials at the United Nations in New York did not respond to requests for comment.

The US military has not acknowledged killing anyone in the retaliatory strikes it launched after it says a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a US contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria on Thursday.