BEIRUT - Israel confirmed Thursday it carried out an airstrike the night before in northern Syria while a war monitoring group said the attack killed an Iranian and six Iraqi fighters allied with President Bashar Assad’s government forces. A Syrian war monitoring group said Thursday, March. 28, 2019 that an Israeli airstrike the night before killed several Iranian and Iranian-backed fighters in northern Syria. ( AP, File / Syrian Central Military Media, )Syrian state media said the country’s air defences responded to an “Israeli air aggression” targeting positions in an industrial area northeast of the city of Aleppo, causing material damage only. The Israeli military does not usually comment on reports concerning its airstrikes in neighbouring Syria though it has recently acknowledged striking Iranian targets in Syria.

Source: thestar March 28, 2019 09:58 UTC