Israeli air strikes in Syria kill 9
Israeli air strikes near Damascus yesterday killed nine combatants, among them five Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest such raid since the start of 2022, a war monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran's military presence in Syria were among the targets.
Government media in Syria confirmed four of the five casualties in the strikes, on which Israel did not comment.
"The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault at dawn... targeting several positions around Damascus," a military source was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA.
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