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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Strikes Hit Iranian Targets Near Russia’s Mediterranean Bases

Smoke billows from buildings near Damascus after an Israeli attack during the night of July 1, 2019. (AFP)

Israel hit Iranian targets in a series of strikes on Sunday near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and close to Russia's main Syrian bases on the Mediterranean coast, regional intelligence and Syrian military sources said.

The Syrian army earlier said three servicemen were killed and three were wounded in two simultaneous Israeli attacks south of the province of Tartous, and another on the capital of Damascus. It gave no details of the specific locations.

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