Air defenses around Damascus were activated early on Wednesday, in order to repel a missile attack from Israel, the Syrian news agency SANA has reported. An "Israeli missile attack" targeted several sites "in the vicinity" of Damascus, SANA said citing Syrian military sources. The attack began about 25 minutes after midnight, with missiles coming in from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights. Syrian air defenses "intercepted the missiles and shot down most of them," the SANA source said, but the ones that got through "resulted in the injury of two soldiers and some property damage." According to the Jerusalem Post, this is the first Israeli attack on Syria in two weeks. In early July, IDF jets bombed targets in Homs province and struck an air defense battery near the Golan Heights.

The Cradle The Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly denounced the visit an illegal violation of the countrys territorial integrity The Syrian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on 18 July condemning a visit to northern Syria by a French delegation earlier this month. The visit took place on 10 July, during which a delegation from Frances Foreign Ministry which entered...