The sound of repeated explosions could be heard in the area around the Syrian capital before dawn on Sunday, state media and Damascus residents said.
There was no immediate statement from government officials on the source or target of the attack, but similar incidents in the past have usually been attributed to Israeli airstrikes, with Syrian air defenses responding to shoot down the missiles.
The latest such incident was on Aug. 7, when Syrian state media reported that Israeli airstrikes hit areas around Damascus, killing at least four Syrian army soldiers. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition-linked war monitor, said those strikes targeted weapons and munitions warehouses and positions of Iran-backed militias around Damascus.
Israel, which has vowed to stop Iranian entrenchment next door, has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets in government-controlled parts of neighboring Syria in recent years, but it rarely acknowledges them.
Israel has also targeted the international airports in Damascus and the northern Syrian city of Aleppo several times over the past few years, often putting it out of commission.
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NotThe One
Russia, Iran, and the Syrian government are working together to distract the US government from helping Ukraine or somehow embarrass the US on the world stage by expelling them from Syria.
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-august-10-2023
There is also a conflict brewing between the US and Russia on the African continent!
konjo4u
Don't rule out Russia at this point.
Mr Kipling
The SOHR is actually Mr. Osman Suleiman, an anti Assad exile living in Coventry, England. He re-posts anti Assad articles that are then taken up by the mainstream media as if the were the word of God.
WA4TKG
Don’t discount other players in the region. My host nation had enough of Iranian backed / funded Syrian drug dealing / manufacturing from one particular participant and when said government did nothing to curb this activity, they took care of it themselves.
There’s more than one bear in the woods.
https://youtu.be/W9DF5f8czQo
Wick's pencil
Probably Israel. Sanctions any day, right?