IDF busts Iranian Revolutionary Guard Cells, kills militia chief

Israeli forces have detained several suspects in southern Syria in recent months who were allegedly operating in terror cells run by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Israel Defence Forces said.

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According to the IDF, the suspects were linked to Unit 840, a covert arm of the IRGC's Quds Force tasked with orchestrating attacks against Israel.

The military said that in March and April, two Unit 840 operatives, Zeidan al-Tawil and Muhammad al-Kuryan, were arrested in Syria. In recent weeks, Israeli raids also uncovered additional cells activated by two IRGC members, Salah al-Husseini and Muhammad Shuayb, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in July. The IDF described them as "among the most prominent operatives" responsible for smuggling weapons from Iran into Lebanon, Syria, and Judea and Samaria.