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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke in Jerusalem and agencies

Iran accuses Israel of killing Revolutionary Guards spy chief in Damascus

People look out of windows as security and emergency personnel search the rubble of an adjacent building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria.
People look out of windows as security and emergency personnel search the rubble of an adjacent building destroyed in a reported Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria. Photograph: Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty

A suspected Israeli strike killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ espionage chief for Syria and three other guard members on Saturday, Iran has said, in an attack that destroyed much of a multistorey residential building in Damascus.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six people were killed in the Israeli strike on the upmarket Mazzeh neighbourhood in the Syrian capital.

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