Saturday, January 20, 2024

4 IRGC officers, including Syria intel chief, killed in Damascus strike blamed on Israel

An alleged Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as two other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said.

“The Revolutionary Guards’ Syria intel chief, his deputy and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel,” Iran’s Mehr news agency said, quoting an informed but unnamed source.

Local reports in Syria said that at least five people were killed in the strike.

An official with an Iran-backed group in the Middle East told The Associated Press that the building was used by Revolutionary Guard officials, adding that the “Israeli missiles” destroyed the whole building.

Syrian state media also blamed the strike on “an Israeli aggression.” READ MORE