Aziz Azbar's assassination On 4 August 2018, Aziz Azbar, a Syrian scientist who was in charge of improving the range and accuracy of the Assad regime’s Scud missiles, was assassinated by explosives planted inside his car. Pro-government Syrian newspaper,
Al-Watan, accused Israel of being behind the assassination. Subsequently, Abu Amara Special Tasks claimed responsibility for the operation. A senior figure from intelligence agency quoted by
The New York Times confirmed that the
Mossad was behind the assassination. Al-Watan reported that Syrian authorities had twice detained cells of local suspects allegedly recruited by Mossad who were engaged in monitoring Asbar’s movements and claimed that Abu Amara, who took responsibility for the attack, was working on behalf of Israel. A field source quoted by
Mashregh News claimed that the Israel used the pro-opposition Abu Amara Brigades militant group to carry out this assassination, adding that in similar fashion Israel carried out the assassination of several Syrian army commanders and Palestinian Qods Brigade commanders in the provinces of Aleppo and Hama.
Explosions of ammunition depots Several detonated ammunition depots of which the group took responsibility of planting explosive inside of them, were also attributed to Israel. ==See also==