DAMASCUS - Two people were killed in an Israeli missile strike on a residential building in an upscale neighborhood here on Wednesday morning, a war monitor reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based watchdog group, stated that the attack was aimed at individuals associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), suggesting it was an assassination attempt.

The attack targeted a residential apartment near the Cham City Center shopping mall and an Iranian school in the Kafar Sousah neighborhood.

The state news agency SANA confirmed the attack but provided no further details.

Israel has frequently carried out missile strikes on Syrian targets, but hitting residential areas is uncommon and usually implies an assassination attempt.

The incident follows a similar attack on Jan 20, when five IRGC officers were killed in a missile strike on the Western Mazzeh Villas neighborhood in Damascus.