DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Syrian air defenses responded to a fresh Zionist missile strike in the capital Damascus early Wednesday, according to the state news agency SANA.
People in the capital heard two powerful explosions as a result of the attack and the interception of the Syrian air defenses.
The attack is the latest in a string of Zionist strikes against Syrian military sites.
At least four Syrian army troops were killed and three others injured after the “hostile” missiles hit the outskirts of the capital, Damascus.
Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that the occupying regime’s aircraft fired several missiles from the direction of the northeastern Zionist city of Tiberias, which lies on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, at areas in the vicinity of Damascus at 0:41 a.m. local time on Wednesday (2141 GMT Wednesday).
Most of the projectiles were intercepted and destroyed before hitting any of their targets, it added.
The source said four soldiers had lost their lives while three others were wounded. The airstrike also caused some material damage.
Back on April 14, the regime’s missiles were intercepted by the Syrian air defense systems over the western countryside of Damascus.
An unnamed military source said at the time that the missiles were reportedly fired from the direction of Syria’s Zionist-occupied Golan Heights.
A similar attack was carried out by the regime on April 9 against the northwestern Syrian city of Masyaf, which only caused material losses at the targeted area.
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.
The Tel Aviv regime mostly keeps quiet about its attacks on Syrian territories which many view as knee-jerk reaction to Syrian government’s increasing success in confronting terrorism.
The regime has been a main supporter of terrorist groups that have opposed the government of President Bashar al-Assad since foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria nine years ago.