BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Two civilians were among four people killed by Zionist strikes on Wednesday that targeted a part of Syria where anti-terrorist fighters are based, a monitor said.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that relies on sources on the ground, said the Zionist missiles struck an area near three villages in the west of Homs province.
According to media, Syrian air defenses intercepted several missiles in the skies over the country’s central province of Homs.
Syria’s official news agency SANA said the airstrikes were conducted from the northeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and that most of the missiles were shot down by Syrian air defenses.
“At approximately 1:26 a.m. today, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with bursts of missiles from the direction of northeast of Beirut, targeting some points in the central region,” SANA cited an unknown military source as saying.
The latest airstrikes came exactly a week after the Zionist regime fired two missiles from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to an area in the south of the capital Damascus.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Zionist regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding terrorist groups that are wreaking havoc in the country.
Meanwhile, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Mekdad said certain Western countries are now attempting to sabotage prospects for a political end to the ongoing conflict in the country after failing to advance their agenda on the battlefield.
“I firmly believe that the entire occupied Syrian territories will be ultimately liberated. Syrian nationals also hold the opinion that each and every constituent part of our country will be soon repatriated,” Mekdad said on Tuesday night.
He noted, “Having failed in their military aggression on Syria, Western countries are now trying to strike down the country through political means.”
Mekdad said the West had not succeeded in imposing its will on Syria either through terrorism or military actions, and is currently seeking to aggravate the situation and impede the political settlement of the Syrian crisis.
The Syrian diplomat blasted Western countries over failure to come up with a political solution to the Syrian crisis and said they had not shied away from hostile actions against the Damascus government.
Mekdad also strongly condemned Turkey’s military occupation of Syrian lands and said the move had created an obstacle to the resolution of the Syrian conflict.
He said the United States’ support for various militant groups in northeastern Syria was in line with its pressure on the Damascus government to stop anti-terror operations against terrorists operating in the area.