SULAIMANI (ESTA) — On Friday an Israeli missile attack near Damascus killed three soldiers and wounded seven more, Syrian state media reported.
Israel has been carrying out strikes for years against what it has described as Iranian and Iran-backed targets in Syria, where Tehran has deployed forces in support of President Bashar al-Assad since the Syrian war began in 2011.
It was the 17th Israeli attack on Syrian territory this year, according to a war monitor.
Citing a military source, Syria’s SANA news agency said Israel “carried out an aerial aggression” at 00:32 a.m., (2132 GMT Thursday), firing missiles from the Golan Heights targeting “a number of positions in the vicinity of Damascus”.
Syrian air defenses managed to shoot down some of the missiles, SANA added.
The attack also caused material damage, SANA reported, without providing further details.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli missiles had been fired at targets including air force intelligence offices in the area of Mezze air base on the western edge of Damascus.
In June, Syria briefly halted flights to and from Damascus airport after saying an Israeli attack damaged the airstrip and a terminal.
(Esta Media Network/Reuters)
