Israel announced Sunday that it carried out a special ground operation in Syria “in recent months,” according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces.

The IDF also say they detained an “Iranian terror network operative” during the mission, who they identified as Ali Soleiman al-Assi. They accuse the man of gathering intelligence on IDF troops along the border, and transferred him to Israel for interrogation.

The IDF said al-Assi’s arrest “prevented a future attack and led to the exposure…