Damascus accuses the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group of abducting three Syrian soldiers, smuggling them across the border to Lebanon, and murdering them.

The Syrian government on Sunday accused a Lebanese terrorist group formerly allied with Syria of abducting and murdering three Syrian soldiers, prompting missile and artillery fire from Syria into Lebanon.

On Sunday night, the Syrian defense ministry claimed that terrorists from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah organization, a Shi’ite movement which had enjoyed close ties with the Assad regime prior to its ouster in December 2024, abducted three Syrian soldiers, forcing them across the border into Lebanon, and murdering them.