Overnight strike on Syria kills 26 fighters

DAMASCUS - As many as 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, were killed in the overnight missile attack that targeted Syrian military sites in northern Syria, a monitor group reported on Monday.

Syrian official media outlets have yet to disclose who was behind the missile strike that targeted military bases in the countrysides of Hama and Aleppo provinces on Sunday evening.

The opposition monitor group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, held Israel responsible for the attack, adding that surface-to-surface missiles hit the Regiment 47 base that houses Syrian government and allied Iranian forces in the countryside of Hama province.