8 killed as Israel strikes Iran embassy annex in Damascus

Israeli strikes hit an Iranian consulate annex in Syria's capital Monday, state media said, amid rising regional tensions due to the Gaza war, as a war monitor reported eight people were killed.

It was the fifth strike in eight days to hit Syria, whose President Bashar al-Assad is widely supported by Iran and its allies. “Hossein Akbari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, and his family were not harmed in the Israeli attack,” Iran’s Nour news agency said. SANA earlier reported that “our air defence systems confronted enemy targets in the vicinity of Damascus”.

“Syria and Lebanon have become one extended battleground from the Israeli perspective,” Riad Kahwaji, head of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, told AFP after the Friday strikes. The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps , Dauda Ali-Biu, has directed Kogi Sector Command to commence a detailed investigation of the multiple crash that occurred in Obajana, Kogi.

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