BEIRUT — A
new Israeli air raid on
Syria Tuesday is the latest in hundreds of attacks on
its strife-torn neighbor since the civil war there began in 2011.
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Here is a recap of some of the major
reported raids, targeting the regime of Bashar al-Assad and his allies from
Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Israel does not always confirm the raids.
2013: First strikes
In January 2013, Israeli planes hit a
military complex near
Damascus suspected of holding chemical agents, according
to a US official.
Israel later implicitly confirms the strike
for the first time since the start of the Syrian war in 2011.
In May 2013 Israel strikes the Jamraya
scientific research center near Damascus, a weapons depot and an aircraft unit.
The Syrian observatory for Human Rights, a
UK-based war monitor which relies on a network of sources inside the country,
says 42 soldiers are killed.
2015: Hezbollah hit
In January 2015, a raid on the Syrian side
of the Golan Heights kills six
Hezbollah personnel and a general from Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hezbollah commander Samir Kantar, who spent
almost 30 years in Israeli prisons, died in a raid blamed on Israel near
Damascus in December 2015.
In December 2017, Israeli planes again
target the Jamraya research center along with a weapons depot, according to the observatory.
2018: Iranians targeted
In April 2018, Syria and its ally
Russia accuse Israel of a dawn bombing raid on a Syrian airbase that kills 14,
including seven Iranians.
Later that month, at least 26 mostly Iranian
fighters are killed in a raid Syria says bore the hallmarks of an Israeli
operation.
In May 2018, Israel carries out dozens more
raids that month on what it says are Iranian targets, as Iranian rocket fire
hits the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
At least 27 pro-regime fighters are killed,
including 11 Iranians, the observatory says.
Iraqi fighters too
In June 2018, 55 pro-regime fighters, from
Syria and
Iraq, are killed in strikes blamed by US officials on Israel, near to
the Iraq border.
Iraqi pro-Iranian paramilitaries say they
have lost 22 fighters.
2019: Retaliatory strikes
The following June Israel targets pro-regime
positions near Damascus and in the province of Quneitra, in what it says is a
response to rockets fired from Syria.
In November 2019, the Israeli army claims a
series of large-scale attacks on regime and Iranian positions, in response to
the rockets. According to the observatory 23 people, including 16 foreign
fighters, are killed.
2020: '50 targets hit'
In February 2020, Israel hits military sites
to the south of Damascus and in the province of
Daraa killing at least 23
fighters, including eight Syrian soldiers and Iranians.
According to a report by the Israeli army,
which rarely comments on its attacks, Israel hit around 50 targets in Syria in
2020.
2021: Deadliest operation
In the deadliest strikes since the start of
the raids, Israel kills 57 regime force members and allied fighters in eastern
Syria overnight January 13, 2021.
Main port attacked
On December 7, the observatory says an
Israeli air strike hit a shipment of Iranian weapons in the Syrian port of
Latakia, in the first such attack on the key facility.
Israel has carried out several strikes in
previous months, killing five people on November 24 in parts of Homs province
where Hezbollah is based.
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