Israeli Airstrike in Syria Kills High-Ranking Iranian General

Published on December 25, 2023

BEIRUT—An Israeli airstrike Monday in a Damascus neighborhood killed a high-ranking Iranian general, Iranian state media said. The killing of Razi Mousavi, a long-time adviser of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in Syria, comes as clashes along the Lebanon–Israel border between Hezbollah and Israel continue to intensify with fears of the Israel–Hamas war sparking a regional spillover with Iran–backed groups. The Israeli strikes killed two other generals earlier this month in Syria. Israel struck the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood, located near a Shiite Muslim shrine, Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain–based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. IRNA described Mr. Mousavi as a close companion of Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force who was slain in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq in January 2020....

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