more-inSyrian air defences intercepted at least two Israeli missiles fired at a government “military position” in Damascus province early on Saturday but the attack still caused damage, state media reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said the missiles, presumably Israeli, targeted “positions of the Syrian regime and its allies” southwest of Damascus. An Israeli military spokesman declined to comment. “At half past midnight (2230 GMT on Friday), the Israeli enemy fired several surface-to-surface missiles at a military position in Damascus province,” the state SANA news agency reported. Israel has acknowledged carrying out repeated air and missile strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the bloody civil war six years ago to stop arms deliveries to Hezbollah, with which it fought a devastating 2006 conflict.

Source: The Hindu December 02, 2017 14:06 UTC