Recently, Israel has carried out airstrikes on a wide-scale across Syrian government territory, hitting targets of both Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah. The most prominent of these strikes came yesterday with the hit on the area of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. This strike most notably killed General Muhammad Reza Zahedi (al-Hajj Abu Mahdi), who has been described as the head of the IRGC's Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon. In the Syrian context, this meant that he served as the overall IRGC head of the Local Defence Forces (LDF) network. This network, also known as the 'Forces of the Friends' (Quwat al-Asdiqa') is the project of Syrian groups backed and commanded by IRGC and Hezbollah personnel in coordination with the Syrian military.
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