A strike on Damascus on Wednesday
At least two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group were killed on Wednesday in a strike on Damascus, a Syrian opposition group said. The strike targeted three sites in the Syrian capital including a building that may have been a command center for Iranian militias, the Syrian opposition group Voice of the Capital said on Wednesday evening.
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The group later added that a Syrian military installation was also targeted.
In an official statement the Syrian Defense Ministry said most missiles fired in the attack which it attributed to Israel, were intercepted and that there was damage caused. The UK based Observatory for Human Rights, another opposition group said that Hezbollah operatives were killed in the strike.
A report in the Lebanese Al Mayadeen television channel, which is affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, said a loud explosion was heard in the Sayeda Zainab neighborhood in the city.
Regional intelligence sources say Iran's Quds Force and militias it backs, whose presence has spread in Syria in recent years, have a strong presence in that neighborhood of southern Damascus where Iranian backed militias have a string of underground bases.
Iran has been a major backer of President Bashar al-Assad during Syria's nearly 12-year-old conflict.