CAIRO/BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes fired missiles targeting Syrian military positions in Homs and the Damascus outskirts in an attack that killed at least four civilians and wounded another 21, Syrian state media said. The Syrian military said Syrian air defenses had confronted the attack, which was launched from Lebanese airspace. SANA also reported that Syrian air defenses had brought down a number of the missiles. In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria that it says have targeted its regional arch foe, Iran, and the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which it calls the biggest threat to its borders. (Reporting by Mohamed El-Sherif in Cairo, Tom Perry in Beirut and Jeffrey Heller in Israel; Editing by Peter Cooney and Sandra Maler)

Source: National Post June 30, 2019 22:56 UTC