Israeli Planes Strike Russian Missile Stockpiles in Syria

ABC reported:

Israeli warplanes conducted an airstrike early today on a Syrian military facility near the northern Syrian port city of Latakia along the Mediterranean coast, a U.S. official confirms to ABC News. 

The attack is believed to be the fifth airstrike conducted by Israel inside Syria this year. Like the earlier airstrikes, the official said the latest attack presumably targeted advanced Russian missile weapons systems headed to the extremist group Hezbollah based in Lebanon. 

An Israeli source also confirmed the attack to ABC News which like the four previous attacks this year has not been acknowledged by the Israeli government. The air strike was first reported in Israeli newspapers which cited explosions at a missile storage facility near Latakia. 

The accounts differed as to what types of air defense missile systems may have been targeted by Israeli warplanes.