DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – Five soldiers were killed by a fresh missile attack by the Zionist regime on the international airport of the capital Damascus and military sites south of the capital after midnight Friday, the Syrian military said.
The Syrian air defenses, it said, were triggered by the attacks, shooting down a number of the missiles.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the attacks targeted the countryside of Damascus.
Syria’s official SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying that the strikes, which were carried out at approximately 00:45 am local time (2145 GMT) on Saturday, came “from the northeastern direction of Lake Tiberias, targeting Damascus airport and some points south of Damascus.”
The military source was quoted as saying by SANA that, “The aggression led to the death of five soldiers and some material damage.”
Earlier in the month, the Zionist regime’s jets launched a number of missiles from across the Mediterranean at the Aleppo International Airport in northwestern Syria, damaging the runway and rendering the facility out of service.
Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the incoming missiles, with reports providing no details on the number of possible casualties.
Syria has been in the grip of foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Zionist regime and its Western and regional allies aid terrorist groups that continue to wreak havoc in the country.
The occupying regime frequently targets military positions inside Syria, especially those of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah which has played a key role in helping the Syrian army in its fight against foreign-backed terrorists.
The Zionist regime rarely comments on its attacks on Syrian territories, which many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the Syrian government’s success in confronting and decimating terrorism.