IRGC Brigadier General and four more officers killed in air strike on Damascus building

Four IRGC officers, including the deputy commander of the IRGC Quds Force for Intelligence Affairs in Syria, Brigadier General Sadegh Omidzadeh, and his deputy Hajj Gholam were killed in an Israeli missile strike on Syria's capital, Damascus, on Saturday, Iranian media confirmed, Report informs, citing Iran International.

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Several members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed in an air strike on a residential building in Syria’s capital, Damascus, according to Iranian state media, Report informs via Al Jazeera.

Syrian state media SANA said the attack on Saturday took place in the Mazzeh neighbourhood. It said “Israeli aggression” targeted the building.

A well-informed source told Al Jazeera the target was an IRGC intelligence unit, adding that a senior IRGC intelligence official in Syria and his assistants were in the building. Iranian state media said a number of IRGC members were killed in the attack, but it did not give additional details.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor that relies on a network of sources on the ground, said the attack killed five people in a building where “Iran-aligned leaders” were meeting.

“An Israeli missile strike targeted a four-storey building, killing five peopl and destroying the whole building where Iran-aligned leaders were meeting,” said the Syrian Observatory.

There was no immediate comment from Israel.