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Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says four of its \u201cmilitary advisers\u201d have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in Syria\u2019s capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n The attack on Saturday took place in the Mazzeh neighbourhood. It said \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d targeted the building.<\/p>\n Iran also blamed Israel for the strike, saying it \u201creserves the right to respond\u201d. Foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said Tehran would respond \u201cat the appropriate time and place\u201d and condemned \u201can escalation in aggressive and provocative attacks\u201d by Israel.<\/p>\n A well-informed source told Al Jazeera the target was an IRGC intelligence unit, adding that a senior IRGC intelligence official in Syria and his assistants were in the building.<\/p>\n In a brief statement, the IRGC said an air strike by Israeli fighter jets killed \u201ca number of Syrian forces and four military advisers\u201d. It later identified the people killed as Hojjatollah Omidvar, Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi and Saied Karimi, without sharing their ranks.<\/p>\n Iranian state television called it a \u201cterrorist\u201d attack by Israel, which has yet to comment.<\/p>\n The attack, which is believed to have been carried out with at least four missiles, completely destroyed a four-storey building, according to Iranian state media. At least one person was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s strike comes amid widening tensions in the region and the Israeli offensive on Gaza that has killed nearly 25,000 people.<\/p>\n Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on Iran-linked targets inside government-controlled parts of war-torn Syria in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says four of its \u201cmilitary advisers\u201d have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential building in Syria\u2019s capital, Damascus. The attack on Saturday took place in the Mazzeh neighbourhood. It said \u201cIsraeli aggression\u201d targeted the building. Iran also blamed Israel …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12004,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12002\/revisions\/12004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}