ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A suspected Israeli airstrike in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday killed a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), semi-official media reported.
Syrian state media on Monday reported that Tel Aviv hit the vicinity of Aleppo with missiles, killing several “civilians” and causing material damage. It did not identify the casualties.
Tasnim News, a media outlet affiliated with the IRGC, said in a post on X that Said Abinar, an IRGC advisor in Syria, was killed in the airstrike which took place in the early hours of Monday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said that 12 Iran-backed militants were killed in the strikes on the town of Hayyan in northern Aleppo.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria throughout its nearly 13-year civil war, often claiming to target pro-Iran militias such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group that supports the Syrian army.
While it rarely comments on strikes attributed to it in Syria, Israel has repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate its arch-rival Iran gaining a foothold there.
Tel Aviv made no immediate comments on Monday’s deadly attack in Aleppo.
An Israeli attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1 killed seven IRGC members, including two senior commanders.
Iran responded by launching an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on Israel nearly two weeks later. Tel Aviv claimed it intercepted 99 percent of the missiles and drones.
The Israeli strikes in Syria have increased since October 7, when Palestinian Hamas militants launched an unprecedented, large-scale attack on Israeli territory that prompted significant retaliation.
