Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country’s uprising turned civil war broke out in 2011, rarely acknowledges them. It says its targets are Iran-backed groups that backed Assad.
An Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday reportedly killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues its efforts against Syrian military infrastructure and weapons depots despite the removal of former President Bashar Assad.
According to reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain, the attack targeted a weapons depot that is owned by Syrian forces near Adra, an industrial town northeast of Damascus. Most of the people who were killed were reportedly civilians.
Al-Mayadeen TV reported the attack, but this time citing six deaths. The Israeli military has yet to state the incident.
Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country’s uprising turned civil war broke out in 2011, rarely acknowledges them. It says its targets are Iran-backed groups that backed Assad. Israel also wants to remove a threat posed by weapons in Syria, which Islamists now govern.
Syrian insurgents who ousted Assad in a lightning offensive in early December have demanded that Israel cease its airstrikes.
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels attacked Wednesday near the strategic northern border town of Kobani, which is under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, following weeks-long clashes.
The SDF shared a video of a rocket attack that destroyed what it said was a radar system south of the city of Manbij, which the Turkish-back group captured earlier this month. The Kurdish-led group is Washington’s key ally in Syria, where it is heavily involved in targeting sleeper cells belonging to the extremist Islamic State group.
