Date: Mar 12, 2020 Source: The Daily Star East Syria strike kills 26 Iraqi fighters: new toll Agence France Presse BEIRUT: An air strike killed 26 fighters of Iraqi paramilitary group Hashed al-Shaabi in eastern Syria after a deadly attack on U.S.-led coalition troops in Iraq, a war monitor said Thursday. Updating its toll for the Wednesday strike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was probably carried out by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Daesh. Before the strike near the border town of Albu Kamal, rockets were fired at a military base north of Baghdad, killing two Americans and one Briton.