Israeli air raid kills multiple Syrian soldiers
Israeli missiles seen over Damascus, Syria.
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On Sunday, Israeli strikes from the Lebanese airspace targeted sites near Damascus and Tartous, killing three regime soldiers, wounding three others, and causing material losses.
On Sunday, the SANA news agency said that at 8:50 pm, missile attacks targeted "some points" in the countryside near the capital, Damascus, and the coastal province of Tartous. The attacks were carried out in two different directions.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said the Israeli strike targeted a Syrian army air defense base in Abu Afsa. It added that Iran-backed fighters are usually in the base.
The regime's media said that Israel carried out an "air attack" with rockets targeting sites in Damascus countryside, pointing out that this bombing coincided with another from the west, targeting some sites south of the coastal governorate of Tartus.
Earlier, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps tested rockets and drones in Syria's Almayadin desert, near the Iraq border.
The regime's air defenses confronted Israeli missiles in the sky of Tartus and the Qalamoun Mountains near the Lebanese border after hearing explosions, the Syrian government-affiliated media reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed in a statement, "three members of the regime forces were killed and others were wounded as a result of the Israeli targeting of an air defense base and a radar in the village of Abu Afsa," which is located 5 km south of Tartus city.
The observatory had stated that Israeli strikes targeted "military sites of the regime forces where Iranian militias are present in the southern countryside of Tartous," noting that "violent explosions were heard in the sites."
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside the regime-controlled areas of Syria over the past years, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
However, Tel Aviv has admitted that it targets the bases of pro-Iranian militias, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Tartus is located in western Syria on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, south of Latakia, 250 km north of the capital, Damascus, and 30 km from the Lebanese border.
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