DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s air defences confronted Israeli missiles targeting the vicinity of Damascus and “shot down most of them,” Syrian state media reported early on Wednesday.
The Israeli military declined to comment.
Israel has for years been carrying out attacks against what it has described as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it began supporting President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that started in 2011.
(Reporting by Kinda Makieh and Enas Alashray; Editing by Leslie Adler and Chris Reese)
