Iran accuses Israel of killing top commander in airstrike

Zahedi, IRGC Quds Force’s Syria-Lebanon chief, Damascus, Syria, April 1, 2024. (STRINGER/AFPTV/AFP) Iran accused Israel Monday of carrying out an airstrike on a building next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus that killed seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the top Iranian commander in Syria. The strike in the Damascus-area municipality of Mezzeh hit a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy, footage showed. Though Israel has not commented on the strike, The New York Times cited four unnamed Israeli officials as confirming the country was behind the attack.