Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
Five Syrian soldiers were among nine people killed in an Israeli air strike near Damascus in the deadliest such raid this year, a war monitor said Wednesday.
Earlier, a Syrian military source told Syrian state news agency SANA that four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in the Israeli strike. "The investigation indicated that four soldiers were killed, three others injured and material damage [was] noted." AFP notes that, while Israel rarely comments on individual strikes, it has acknowledged mounting hundreds since 2011.
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