DAMASCUS —
Israeli air strikes on Syria
killed three soldiers and wounded three others on Friday, state media said,
after the latest such incident in the war-torn country.
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“The aggression led to the death of three soldiers,
the wounding of three others,” Syria’s official news agency SANA said, quoting
a military source.
Since civil war broke out in
Syria in 2011, Israel
has carried out hundreds of air strikes inside the country.
The latest Israeli strikes targeted sites in the
countryside around the capital Damascus and south of coastal Tartus province,
SANA said, adding that Syria’s air defense systems intercepted some of the
missiles.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor
also gave the same toll of killed and wounded from the strikes near an air
defense base in Tartus province.
The targeted site in Tartus is located 8km from a
Russian base, said the monitor, which has a wide network of sources in Syria.
It said ambulances had rushed to the scene of the
strikes in Tartus.
Two missiles also struck a
Syrian government military site in the Al-Qutayfah area in the Damascus countryside, the monitor
said.
In early July
Syria’s defense ministry said an Israeli strike conducted from the
Mediterranean Sea near the town of Al-Hamadiyah, south of Tartus town, had
wounded two civilians.
On Friday, Israeli shelling wounded two civilians in
southern Syria near the occupied Golan Heights, according to state media.
Last month, an Israeli strike near Damascus killed
three Syrian soldiers, state media said at the time. The observatory said that
strike targeted a military facility and an “Iranian weapons depot”.
The war has killed nearly half a million people and
forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
Russia’s military intervention in 2015 helped turn
the war in favor of Syria’s President
Bashar Al-Assad, whose forces once only
controlled a fifth of the country.
Last month the observatory said a Russian air strike
killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region,
in the country’s north.
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