A war monitor on Saturday said three pro-Iran fighters, including at least two Iraqis, were killed in an overnight air strike in eastern Syria near the Iraq border. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike occurred in Deir Ezzor province. Iran wields significant influence in the area, which is regularly targeted by Israel and sometimes by the United States. “Two of the dead were Iraqi nationals with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and the third was not identified,” the Observatory said, referring to a loose alliance of Iran-backed groups. The Britain-based monitor, which…