Hezbollah and Iranian forces in Syria have boosted their presence in areas south and west of the capital Damascus, an opposition war monitor reported on Sunday, after two strikes attributed to Israel last month targeted Iranian weapons shipments along Syria’s Mediterranean coast.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Lebanese Hezbollah forces began work over the past days to expand an old Syrian military base south of the Syrian capital, to be used as a training and operations center for reconnaissance drones.
The work at the compound in the Saydah Zaynab area includes underground construction, which the Observatory said is meant to protect Iranian drones from Israeli strikes.