DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel launched a series of strikes early Saturday targeting military sites in Damascus and its countryside, including rocket depots buried deep under a mountain, a Syrian war monitor said, in the latest such raids since militants and takfiri terrorists brought down Bashar al-Assad almost a week ago.
Earlier in the week the Zionist regime launched a major operation to destroy the Syrian military’s strategic military capabilities, including missiles, air defenses, air force and navy, in a bid to decapitate the country’s deterrence power.
The early Saturday strikes appeared to be aimed at completing the campaign. 
Earlier in the week, the occupying regime said it had so far destroyed some 80% of Syrian capabilities and would continue to act.
“Israeli strikes destroyed a scientific institute” and other related military facilities in Barzeh, in northern Damascus, and targeted a “military airport” in the capital’s countryside, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Strikes also targeted “Scud ballistic missile warehouses” and launchers in the Qalamun area, as well as “rockets, depots and tunnels under the mountain,” according to the Britain-based Observatory, which claims to have a network of sources inside Syria.
The Observatory said several rounds of strikes targeted “military sites of the former regime forces, as part of destroying what is left of the future Syrian army’s capabilities.”
Israeli airstrikes on Friday targeted “a missile base at the top of Damascus’s Mount Qasioun,” the group said, as well as an airport in southern Sweida province and “defense and research labs in Masyaf,” in Hama province.
The Assad government, which fell on Sunday after a sudden onslaught by terrorist and militant forces, was a part of its so-called Axis of Resistance against Israel.
In a message to the new regime taking shape in Syria under militant groups, many of which were originally associated with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel would seek to establish relations. 
Israeli journalist and political analyst Barak Ravid revealed that the Zionist regime sent a message to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Ravid shared in an interview with US news network CNN that the message sent by Israel to the organization came through three parties.
The Israeli journalist added that the occupying state has close relations with several groups in Syria, especially Kurdish groups in the north of the country, as well as with the Druze community in the Syrian Golan Heights.