The Russian military said on Monday that two Israeli F-15 war planes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying the Israeli war planes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese air space, and that Syrian air defence systems had shot down five of eight missiles fired. The United States denied attacking the Syrian base. "At this time, the Department of Defense is not conducting air strikes in Syria," the Pentagon said in a statement. "An aggression was perpetrated on T-4 air base in several strikes that is most likely to be an American attack," state television said in a news flash.

Source: dna April 09, 2018 07:30 UTC