An adviser to Iran’s main military branch in Syria was killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday night as fighting between Tehran-backed forces and the US and Israel escalated in recent weeks.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) threatened to avenge the adviser identified as Milad Heydari, and according to Israeli reports it said: “The false and criminal Zionist regime will undoubtedly receive an answer to this crime.”
According to The Times of Israel, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks targeted an arms depot and Iran-backed groups south of the capital.
An Israeli soldier stands next to a truck at a position in Israel’s Golan Heights near the border with Syria January 2, 2023. Israeli rocket attacks on the Syrian capital’s airport on January 2 killed four people, including two soldiers, and closed the runways for several hours, a rights monitor said. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
PENTAGON SAYS 6 US TROOPS WERE TREATED FOR TLAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES IN SYRIA AFTER IRAN-BACKED ATTACKS
The attacks were the second attack on Damascus said to have been launched from Jerusalem in 24 hours after it reportedly hit the capital on Wednesday night in an attack that wounded at least two Syrian soldiers, according to Israeli reports.
Deadly attacks in Syria appear to have increased in recent weeks as the US and Israel — which support opposition forces in eastern Syria — respond to attacks by IRGC-backed forces.
Since the deadly civil war broke out in 2011, Iran has supplied arms and support to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Israeli rocket attacks on the Syrian capital’s airport on January 2 killed four people. The second time in less than seven months that Damascus International Airport — where Iran-backed armed groups and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are based — has been hit by Israel. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
US AIR DEFENSE DURING SUSPECTED IRANIAN DRONE STRIKE IN SYRIA KILLING AN AMERICAN
Six American soldiers were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries this week after IRGC-backed forces attacked two coalition military bases in northeast Syria earlier this month.
Four of the soldiers were injured in a drone attack on a US base near Hasaka on March 23, while two other soldiers were injured in an attack on the Green Village base on March 24.
U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFV) patrol the Suwaydiyah oil fields in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasaka, February 13, 2021. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Pentagon confirmed that its air defense system was down in at least one of the attacks on a coalition military base in northeast Syria last week.
General Erik Kurilla testified in a hearing at the Hill last week that Iran-backed forces have been behind 78 attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria since January 2021.