Dpa/GNA - At least 23 people were killed in airstrikes by Israeli jets in eastern Syria against posts of government troops and their Iranian allies, a war monitor said on Wednesday.
The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel-Rahman, told dpa that some 18 Israeli strikes had targeted arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria,killing at least seven government soldiers and 16 allied paramilitaries, including fighters of the the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movem... [see source for more information]