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On Thursday evening, an Israeli strike on Damascus International Airport killed eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to the Saudi TV channel Al-Hadath. This information was denied by the spokesman of the IRGC.
Eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an air strike targeting Damascus International Airport on Thursday evening, Saudi media reported the following morning.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria, Nur Rashid, was wounded in the airstrike, Saudi channel Al-Hadath reported.
The IRGC commanders reportedly went to the airport to meet high-ranking delegates.
IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif on Friday denied reports that 11 of its leaders had been killed in an air strike on Damascus International Airport the previous night, Iranian media quoted him as saying.
Syrian media also reported on Thursday evening that Israel had targeted sites in southern Syria and near Damascus with airstrikes and Syrian air defenses were activated in the Damascus area.
Syrian media quoted a Syrian military source as saying that the reported Israeli airstrike originated from the "occupied Syrian Golan Heights".
Earlier this week, Iran vowed that Israel would "pay" for the assassination of Sayyed Reza Mousavi, another commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed by an Israeli air strike on Monday near Damascus.
Shortly after the strike that killed Mousavi, images circulating on social media showed smoke near Damascus Airport, a place where Iranian proxies regularly gather.
Eleven leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in an air strike targeting Damascus International Airport on Thursday evening, Saudi media reported the following morning.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards in eastern Syria, Nur Rashid, was wounded in the airstrike, Saudi channel Al-Hadath reported.
The IRGC commanders reportedly went to the airport to meet high-ranking delegates.
IRGC spokesman Sardar Ramzan Sharif on Friday denied reports that 11 of its leaders had been killed in an air strike on Damascus International Airport the previous night, Iranian media quoted him as saying.
Syrian media also reported on Thursday evening that Israel had targeted sites in southern Syria and near Damascus with airstrikes and Syrian air defenses were activated in the Damascus area.
Syrian media quoted a Syrian military source as saying that the reported Israeli airstrike originated from the "occupied Syrian Golan Heights".
Earlier this week, Iran vowed that Israel would "pay" for the assassination of Sayyed Reza Mousavi, another commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was killed by an Israeli air strike on Monday near Damascus.
Shortly after the strike that killed Mousavi, images circulating on social media showed smoke near Damascus Airport, a place where Iranian proxies regularly gather.
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