Syria airstrike blamed on Israel said to kill 22 pro-regime fighters


Last night's strike targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard centre. At least six of the dead are said to be Syrians.

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Agencies and Times of Israel staff write, “Syrian rebel forces claimed that 22 people, including nine Iranians, were killed in an overnight strike in northern Syria blamed on Israel, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera network reported Monday.The figure, which could not be confirmed, was much higher than an earlier report of nine deaths provided by a Syrian watchdog group.

The al-Jazeera report did not cite its sources or give any further details.

“‘The Israeli missiles targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center, near the Neyrab military airport,’ (near Aleppo) said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor. “The Zionist enemy (Israel)… targeted with its missiles one of our military positions north of the Nayrab military airport, but the damage was only material,” SANA said citing a military source.Suspected Israeli airstrikes have hit Syrian army positions near Damascus and in the central provinces of Homs and Hama in the past. However, they rarely occur as far north as Aleppo.

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The position is a logistics hub used to provide equipment and food to pro-regime forces fighting at nearby fronts, but it did not store weapons, Abdel Rahman said. He said those killed included at least six Syrians, but could not specify the nationalities of the remaining fighters.”  (more and  more…)

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