Iranian militias and paramilitary groups have built up sizeable presence around the capital Damascus, as well as on the southern coastal regions closer to Israel.
Israeli airstrikes inside Syrian capital Damascus in the early hours of Sunday killed an unspecified number of people, according to Syrian state news outlet SANA.
The attack happened after the midnight, when loud explosions were reported from a residential area in the capital city. SANA said the air defenses were confronting hostile targets in the sky around Damascus.
According to a Reuters report, at least five people have been killed in the attack, which the news agency called a ‘rocket strike’.
The report adds that the strike targeted a heavily guarded security complex in central Damascus’s Kafr Sousa neighborhood. It adds that the targeted building in an area that hosts Iranian installations.
*** In 2019, in a sensational attacks near Damascus Israel killed a top commander of the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Akram al-Ajouri.
*** Also in July 2022, the IDF carried out attacks Damascus, killing at least five Syrian soldiers and several more members of Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militias.
