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An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing a commander and one of his deputies, Syrian state media and an Iranian media outlet reported. Irans Student News Network, a hard-line outlet close to the Guards all-volunteer Basij branch, said the men were members of the Revolutionary Guards expeditionary Quds Force. An opposition war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least five people were killed in the missile attack that struck while officials from Iran-backed groups were holding