Alleged Israeli strikes target northern, eastern Syria
Iranian militia targets were bombed near Aleppo and in the Deir ez-Zor countryside.
Israel reportedly carried out two airstrikes in northern and eastern Syria amid increased Israeli action against Iranian targets there.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said today that Israeli jets struck Iran-backed militia targets in the Deir ez-Zor countryside in the country’s east, killing 15 Iranian and Iraqi citizens. Late last night, Israel also bombed a weapons depot belonging to Syrian government and Iranian forces near Al-Safira outside Aleppo, the observatory said.
Syria’s state media SANA reported that a “hostile flight” dropped missiles targeting military depots in Al-Safira late Monday evening. The damage is unknown and Syria activated its air defense systems as a result, according to SANA, which did not attribute the strikes to Israel.
SANA did not report the strikes in Deir ez-Zor.
