Israeli strikes kill 12 pro-Iran fighters in Syria
Beirut: Israeli air strikes killed 12 pro-Iran fighters in Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.
The pre-dawn raids killed seven foreign fighters in the Kisweh area south of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Iranian and pro-Iran foreign fighters were present in the area, the Britain-based war monitor said, but the nationality of the dead was not immediately clear.
Five Syrian members of a pro-Iranian group were also killed in the Ezra area of the southern province of Daraa, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. - AFP