An alleged Israeli airstrike has reportedly killed a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in an attack on a consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus.
A Lebanese security source told Reuters that one of the dead in an attack that flattened an Iranian consulate building in Damascus was IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi.
Five other people were reported to have been killed in the attack, including a number of Iranian diplomats, although the ambassador, Hossein Akbari, was said to have been unharmed.
Israel did not comment on whether it was responsible for the attack, but it has maintained a campaign of cross-border air strike attacks on Iran-backed militant groups such as Hezbollah during its war against Hamas in Gaza.
These included a strike on the Aleppo province in northern Syria on Friday, which killed nearly 40 people and against Hezbollah targets within Lebanon.