Sunday, February 9, 2020

Syria war: Israel 'hits Iran-backed fighters near Damascus'



Video posted online purportedly showing a missile strike in the Damascus suburbs on 6 February 2020

A monitoring group said Syrian army positions and those of Iran-backed militias were hit, killing 23 people.

Israel did not comment, but it has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in Syria in recent years to stop Iranian "military entrenchment".
Iran and its proxies, including the Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, are supporting forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the country's civil war.