Syrian Air Defenses Intercept Israeli Missile Barrage Targeting Damascus | Farsnews Agency

(FNA)- Syrian air defense units managed to intercept and bring down a barrage of missiles launched by the Israeli military at various targets in the vicinity of the Arab country’s capital city of Damascus.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that several Israeli missiles were fired from the direction of the Eastern Lebanese town of Rayaq at some targets near Damascus at about 3:05 am (00:05 GMT) local time on Monday.

The source added that Syrian air defenses managed to destroy most of the missiles.

The source also noted that the strikes had caused some “material damage”.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, however.

The development came a month after the Israeli military fired a number of missiles at Syria’s strategic Western port of Latakia. It was the second Israeli strike in a month on the key facility following the attack on December 7 last year.