Updated 6.06pm - A senior commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in Israeli strikes on Damascus on Monday.

A war monitor said eight people were killed in a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy.

An AFP correspondent at the site confirmed the building next to the embassy in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus had been levelled by the strike.

"Israeli missiles... destroyed the building of an annex to the Iranian embassy... in Damascus, killing six people," said the Britain-based group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Senior Guards commander killed

Iranian state media reported that the Israeli strikes killed a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

"Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, one of the senior commanders of the IRGC's Quds Force, was martyred in an attack by Zionist regime fighters on the Islamic Republic of Iran's consulate building in Damascus," state TV reported.

The Quds Force is the foreign operations arm of the Guards.

 

                

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