Syria. The Israeli Air Force carries out a daring and complex military operation, in which 120 members of special forces units raid and destroy an underground Iranian missile production facility deep in Syria. At the time, Bashar al-Assad’s regime is still in power in Syria, and Israel has not yet launched its devastating campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The raid, dubbed “Operation Many Ways,” aimed to destroy an underground facility in Syria used by Iranian forces to manufacture precision missiles for Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Assad regime in Syria. The facility was dug into a mountainside near the Scientific Studies and Research Center, known as CERS or SSRC, in the Masyaf area of Syria, west of Hama. The site is located more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Israeli border and approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Syria’s western coast.
