On Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed that nine pro-Iran militants, most of them Iraqi, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syria yesterday.
In a statement, the SOHR said that the Israeli raids targeted the sites of the Fourth Division on the Damascus-Beirut highway.
On its part, the Syrian army reported that air defenses had intercepted Israeli aggression against the capital Damascus, in an intense bombardment of Iranian targets inside the country since the beginning of the year.
An army statement said that Israeli military aircraft flew over the Golan Heights to strike targets on the outskirts of the capital, adding that the Syrian defenses drowned most of the missiles.
“The strikes targeted a large military pision in the town of Kiswa, 14 km south of Damascus, in an Iranian-backed factions controlled area,” A Syrian army defector said.
Israel has stepped up strikes on Syria in recent months in what Western intelligence sources described as a "US-approved shadow war that has undermined Iran's military power in the region."
Earlier this month, Israeli airstrikes on eastern Syria killed 16 Iran-backed fighters, hours after Damascus said it had intercepted Israeli missiles fired at a central airbase.
Israeli officials recently said that the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Syria was trying to establish facilities to produce precision-guided missiles.
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