The large explosions heard in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday night were from more Israeli air strikes, which targeted military installations near to the city and in the surrounding countryside, reports Al Jazeera.
The air strikes targeted the Syrian army’s Fourth Division and a radar battalion in the countryside near to Damascus, Serdar said.
“There are two things interesting about this, the first is that the Fourth Division, during the al-Assad regime, it was directly under the responsibility of Maher al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad’s brother,” Serdar said.
Secondly, the radar battalion that was attacked is in an area where air defence systems are located, near to the notorious Sednaya prison, and which Israeli forces had already targeted with air strikes and had previously destroyed military equipment.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israeli warplanes attacked a target at the summit of Mount Qasioun in Damascus, Khalkhala Airport in the countryside of Sweida, and the Defense and Research Laboratories in Masyaf, located in the western countryside of Hama.
Earlier on Friday, Israeli air strikes hit six military sites in the countryside of Damascus and Sweida, the observatory said.
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