(Newsweek) Tom O'Connor - Iran has pursued the establishment of a comprehensive aerial defense network in Syria in a project Israel has sought to thwart through repeated airstrikes, an intelligence source from a nation allied with the U.S. told Newsweek. Israeli airstrikes in Syria began in late 2017 as Iranian forces began to entrench themselves in the country. The strikes have targeted "Iranian military assets and interests in the Syrian territory that threaten Israel." Over the course of "the last two years," Iran has been "promoting the deployment of aerial defense capabilities on its behalf in Syria at a cost of tens of millions of dollars in order to deal with the Israeli airstrikes." The source said that over the past few years, 10 Iranians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria. IRGC Aerospace Force Col. Davoud Jafari, commander of Iran's air defense efforts in Syria, recently died in a roadside bombing.
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