From Yahoo News:
Syria says Israel strikes military research center
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, said early Sunday that Israeli missiles struck a militaryresearch center near the capital Damascus.
If confirmed, it would be the second Israeli strike on targets in Syriain three days, signaling a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody civil war.
Israel has said it will not allow sophisticated weapons to flow fromSyria to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad and a heavily armed foe of the Jewish state.
Two previous Israeli airstrikes, one in January and one on Friday, targeted weapons shipments apparently bound for Hezbollah, Israeli and U.S. officials have said.
Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment on the reports of a new strike Sunday. In Washington, a Pentagon spokeswoman said she had no information relating to the report by Syrian state media.
SANA said explosions went off at the Jamraya research center near Damascus, causing casualties. "Initial reports point to these explosions being a result of Israeli missiles that targeted the research center in Jamraya," SANA said.
A Syrian activist group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also reported large explosions in the area of Jamraya, a research facility northwest of Damascus, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the Lebanese border.
Israel's first airstrike in Syria, in January, also struck Jamraya.
1 comment:
I think perhaps they might do themselves some good in Tehran by taking out any possible transfers in Syria.
I like the way they are doing this. SAYING NOTHING.
Just doing.
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