DAMASCUS: Israeli strikes overnight targeting the Syrian military positions and a weapons depot near Damascus killed three Iran-backed militia fighters, a Britain-based war monitor said on Thursday.

The strikes near the capital “destroyed a weapons depot likely used by the Lebanese Hezbollah militia,” among other Iran-backed groups, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“It also killed three... Iran-backed militia fighters,” said the monitor.

The Observatory said it could not determine their nationalities but that they were all non-Syrians.

“At around 12:56 the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression from the direction of Lebanon on some positions in the vicinity of Damascus,” SANA said, citing a military source.

Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2021