Israeli airstrikes on Syria kill 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters. (Reuters)
Fourteen Iranian and Iraqi fighters were killed and others wounded in Israeli airstrikes on eastern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Britain-based war monitor said the late Monday strikes in eastern Deir Ezzour province targeted positions of Iranian and Iran-backed fighters. Some were critically injured.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
Syria’s state news agency reported late Monday that Israeli strikes targeted military depots in the region of Safira, south of the northern city of Aleppo. It did not mention the strikes on Deir Ezzour, which borders Iraq.
Western intelligence sources say Iranian-backed militias have long been entrenched in Aleppo province where they have bases and a command center and installed advanced weapons, part of a growing presence across regime-controlled Syria.
The Scientific Studies and Research Center is one of several facilities where Western intelligence and opposition sources suspect Syria with the help of Iranian researchers work on developing chemical weapons they accuse Syria of having used against civilians in opposition-held areas, reported Reuters.
A regional intelligence source said Israel was stepping up raids in Syria at a time when world attention and the region, including Syria, were distracted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Israeli defense minister Naftali Bennett told Israeli media last week that Israel would step up its campaign against Iran in Syria.
There have recently been several reports of suspected Israeli strikes inside Syria, the most recent one last week, when the Syrian regime forces and state media said Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near the Syrian capital, Damascus, killing three civilians.
Israel rarely comments on such reports, although it has acknowledged carrying out airstrikes inside Syria on numerous occasions in the course of Syria’s nine-year conflict, saying it was going after Iranian military targets in the country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in August that Iran has no immunity anywhere and that the Israeli military forces “will act — and currently are acting — against them.”
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