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An Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in the Kafr Sousa district in Syria's capital Damascus on Wednesday, killing two people, Syrian state media and a security source said...
A military source cited by Syrian state TV said the strike at around 9:40 am (local time) wounded a number of other people, identifying the dead as civilians...
Images published by Syrian state media showed the charred side of a multi-storey building..
Those strikes have ramped up in line with flaring regional tensions since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, with more than half a dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers killed in suspected Israeli strikes on Syria since December...
Iran, a backer of Hamas, has sought to stay out of the conflict itself even as it supports groups that have entered the fray from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria -- the so-called "Axis of Resistance" that is hostile to Israeli and US interests...
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