At least three Syrian army men have been killed and three others wounded after multiple Israeli missile attacked some locations at Syria’s capital Damascus and the coastal province of Tartous.
According to the state media, the attack happened on Sunday and Syrian air defence forces confronted the “aggressions” and downed some of the missiles,
“The aggression led to the death of three soldiers, the wounding of three others,” it reported.
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As per reports, the attacks on Damascus were carried out from a direction southeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, while the attacks on Tartous came from the Mediterranean sea.
However, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, also reported that the raids targeted an air defence base in Tartous province, where Iranian-backed groups are active.
It added that two missiles also struck a Syrian government military site in the Al-Qutayfah area of the Damascus countryside.
The Israeli military declined to comment.
Since the civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air raids inside the country, targeting government positions as well as militant groups allegedly allied by Iran and Hezbollah fighters.
Israel rarely comments on individual raids in Syria, but the Israeli military has defended them as necessary to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold on its ‘doorstep’.
