ISRAELI jets killed at least 40 people during air strikes in Syria early this morning, with missiles hitting more than 18 sites from Deir Ezzor to the Iraqi border, according to a war monitoring group.

The raids, carried out with intelligence provided by the United States, targeted a series of warehouses in Syria that were being used as a part of the “pipeline” to store and stage Iranian weapons, according to a senior US intelligence official.

Speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, they  said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had discussed the raid with Yossi Cohen, chief of Israel’s spy agency Mossad, at a public meeting in popular Washington restaurant Cafe Milano on Monday.