Syria flag (flickr).
Early on October 1, at least three blasts rocked the town of Qura al-Assad which is located some ten kilometers to the west of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said that the blasts emanated from a building that belongs to the Syrian military’s elite 4th Division and hosts personnel from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Two people of an unknown nationality were killed as a result of the blasts, according to the London-based monitoring group.
Other news sources alleged that the blasts were the results of Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian weapons shipment bound to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. However, there were no reports of Syrian air defense fire and the official Syrian Arab News Agency which usually annonce Israeli strikes didn’t report on the blasts.
Last month, several Israeli attacks targeted Syria. On September 13, two waves of strikes hit the country. The first wave targeted air defense bases in the western coastal governorate of Tartus, killing two service members and wounding several others. The second wave hit a military research center in the west-central governorate of Hama. Only material losses were reported there.
Later on September 21, a suspected Israeli drone strike on the countryside of Damascus killed two people who were allegedly working for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On the same day, Israeli tanks shelled two Syrian military positions in the southern governorate of al-Quneitra.
Israel carried out hundreds of attacks against Syria over the past decade. It was also blamed for a number of assassinations and sabotage acts.
The country says that it is waging a covert military campaign dubbed “the war between the wars” to prevent Iran from entrenching itself in Syria and stop the smuggling of advanced weapons to Hezbollah.
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unknown nationality??? – probably eskimos!!!
saa can’t retaliate that’s why . that’s why they use word unknowing