Syrian media reported Wednesday that Israeli warplanes conducted multiple airstrikes in the Damascus countryside, targeting military facilities and headquarters.
The strikes reportedly hit a Syrian forces headquarters in the Al-Kiswah area, as well as a military facility in Tal Mani', according to state outlets.
Syrian Television, citing local sources, has reported that several Israeli helicopters landed in As-Suwayda, coinciding with airstrikes in the Damascus countryside.
While Israeli media reported that jets were striking Syrian bases as tanks entered the southern outskirts of Damascus.
Syrian reports indicate that six missiles were fired at ground targets on the outskirts of the capital, marking the latest in a series of Israeli attacks in the region.
Syria on Wednesday condemned an Israeli drone strike that killed six soldiers outside Damascus the previous day, as Israel carried out another attack on the area.
In a statement, Syria's foreign ministry called the strike "a gross violation of international law and the United Nations Charter."
It added that the attack represented "a clear breach of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic."
State television reported six army personnel "were killed in strikes by Israeli occupation drones" near Kisweh, outside Damascus, in the Tuesday attack.
On Wednesday, state television reported that Israeli aircraft "targeted sites near the city of Kisweh in the Damascus countryside."
A defense ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity that at least three Israeli strikes targeted a former Syrian military base in Tal Maneh, near Kisweh.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the latest strikes and did not respond to an AFP request for comment on Tuesday's attack.
Earlier Tuesday, state news agency SANA reported that "a young man was killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the village of Taranja," on the formerly Syrian-controlled side of the armistice line on the Golan Heights.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since an Islamist-led alliance toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December.
It has also opened talks with the interim authorities in Damascus.
Since Assad's overthrow, Israel has occupied much of a UN-patrolled demilitarized zone on the Syrian-held side of the armistice line.
AFP
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