An adviser to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in an Israeli strike near Damascus, a semi-official Iranian news agency says.
Syria’s state-run SANA broadcaster said Israel carried out airstrikes near Damascus early this morning.
The report, citing a military source, said the Israeli aircraft launched their missiles from over the Golan Heights at the targets south of the capital at around 4:20 a.m.
It was reported yesterday that the Revolutionary Guards have scaled back the deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly strikes blamed on Israel.
Since December, the alleged Israeli strikes have killed more than half a dozen of their members, among them one of the Guards’ top intelligence generals.
Since the Gaza war erupted, Israel has stepped up a years-long campaign of air strikes aimed at rolling back Iran’s presence in Syria, attacking both the Guards and Hezbollah, which has been firing at northern Israel towns and military bases since October 8.
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