BEIRUT (AFP) — Israeli air strikes on Syria have killed four pro-Iranian
fighters allied to the Damascus regime, a Britain-based war monitor said
Friday.
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Syrian state media earlier said its air defense system engaged "hostile
targets" over the capital Damascus late on Thursday.
"The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack ... targeting positions
near Damascus and around the city of Homs," a military source told state
news agency SANA.
"Our air defense responded to the missiles and shot most of them
down."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli missiles had
targeted "arms depots and military positions" belonging to Lebanese
Shiite movement Hezbollah, in the Qarah area in the northwest of Damascus
province, near Homs province and the Lebanese border.
The strikes had killed four members of the Iran-backed group, but it was not
immediately clear whether they were Syrian or Lebanese, the Britain-based war
monitor said.
Lebanese media also earlier reported two missiles had fallen in the Qalamoun
region.
Israeli occupation forces rarely acknowledge its strikes in Syria and a
spokesperson told AFP it did "not comment on foreign media
information".
However, since the start of the war in Syria 10 years ago, Israel has
carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syrian territory, targeting regime
positions as well as allied Iranian forces and members of Hezbollah.
Israel regularly says it will not allow Syria to become a stronghold of its
sworn enemy Iran.
The Syrian conflict, which began in 2011 with the regime's repression of
pro-democracy protests, has grown increasingly complex over the past decade,
drawing in more and more parties.
According to the Observatory, the war has left nearly half a million people
dead.
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