Israeli aircraft strike Syria: Syrian official media

Israel launched an airstrike near the Syrian capital early on Friday, according to Syrian state media, making it the second assault within two days.

At least three significant explosions were reported by Reuters reporters overnight over the city. State media claimed that Israel launched "sprays of rockets" shortly after midnight, citing a military source.

The source claimed that the assault resulted in some material damage and that the Syrian air defenses "intercepted the missiles and shot down a number of them." The number of fatalities wasn't disclosed.

Without giving more specifics, the source claimed that the assault took place at "a site in the countryside of Damascus." Israel did not immediately respond to reports of strikes in Syria and typically does not remark on such reports.

Since starting to back President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that broke out in 2011, Israel has been conducting attacks against targets in Syria that it claims are connected to Iran.

Paramilitary organizations supported by Iran, such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and those in Iraq, have established strongholds in and around the nation's capital as well as in its north, east, and south.

According to a count by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based war monitor with sources on the ground, there have been at least six attacks in March alone.

Israeli missiles fired near Damascus on Thursday wounded two soldiers, according to Syrian official media.

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