Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday the group had acquired "precision missiles" despite extensive efforts by neighbour and foe Israel to prevent the Shiite movement developing this capability.
"It has been done. The resistance now owns precision missiles" as part of its weaponry, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised address during the key Shiite commemoration of Ashura.
Israel this month acknowledged carrying out more than 200 strikes over the past 18 months in war-torn Syria, where Hezbollah fights alongside Israel's arch-foe and Shiite powerhouse Iran in support of the Damascus regime.
Late on Monday, an Israeli raid hit Syria's northwestern province of Latakia to prevent what the Jewish state said were deliveries of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah.
Syrian air defences downed a Russian military plane by mistake, killing all 15 on board.