More on this story from yesterday.
[An Nahar] Four pro-Iranian fighters were killed early Thursday during Israeli strikes on several positions near Damascus, a war monitor said, in the third such attack in less than a week.Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory since civil war broke out there in 2011, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and Hezbollah fighters.
Explosions were heard in the Syrian capital in the night of Wednesday to Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported.
"At around 00:30 am, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Paleostinian territories targeting several positions in the vicinity of Damascus," the Syrian defense ministry had said in a statement.
Syria's air defense intercepted several missiles, the ministry added.
It did not provide any details on the targets and said that the strikes caused material damage.
The Israeli strikes targeted "weapons and ammunition depots and bases housing Iranian-backed groups a few kilometres from Damascus International Airport," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
The UK-based war monitor, which relies on a wide network of sources in Syria, later said that four pro-Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...fighters, including one Syrian, were killed during the strikes.
Report: Israel warns Syria it will ramp up strikes over Iran weapons transfers
[IsraelTimes] Al-Arabiya says Jerusalem sent message to Damascus after three strikes in recent days blamed on Israel; it also reports Iran
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is sending arms in shipments disguised as aid
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s in the country over its cooperation with Iran in smuggling arms to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, according to a Thursday report, which came following three attacks in Syria attributed to Israel within days.
The Saudi-funded al-Arabiya, citing unidentified sources, said Iran has been sending weapons disguised as aid for Syria and
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
by air, land and sea.
The network said a rare daytime airstrike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday targeted military sites belonging to the elite Fourth Armoured Division, which is commanded by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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’s brother, Maher.
The report said Maher Assad’s unit "supports Iran in the transfer of strategic weapons and dangerous materials" for Syria and Lebanon.
Additionally, the strikes targeted the headquarters of the "Lebanese legion" of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, involved in transferring arms to Lebanon.
The report did not say how or when the Israeli message had been delivered.