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Alleged Israeli strikes target northern, eastern Syria

Iranian militia targets were bombed near Aleppo and in the Deir ez-Zor countryside.

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on May 1, 2020, shows smoke billowing above buildings in Syria's central city of Homs. - SANA said that the explosions ringing out of a Syrian army position in Homs resulted from a "human error during the transport of some ammunition, which led to human and material losses", while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor relying on sources inside Syria, said Israeli air strikes hit a missile depot belonging
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency on May 1, 2020, shows smoke billowing above buildings in Syria's central city of Homs. — SANA/AFP via Getty Images

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.

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