Israel attacks Iran on the Syria border


Issue 1059 - 11 May 2018 | 1 minute read

Iranian and Israeli forces have traded fire across Syria’s border with the Israeli-held Golan Heights. The attacks began with around 20 Iranian-made Grad and Fajr rockets being fired at Israeli army bases in the early hours of 10 May. Israel alleged the assault was carried out by the Quds Force, the elite wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and swiftly retaliated with strikes on dozens of Iranian military sites in Syria and on Syrian air defences.

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