DAMASCUS, 25 February 2022, (TON): According to Syria’s state media “three Syrian soldiers were killed Thursday in an Israeli airstrike near the capital Damascus.”

It was the fourth reported time this month Israel has launched strikes inside Syria, keeping up a campaign against pro-Iranian forces supporting the Damascus government in the more than decade-old civil war.

State news agency reported “the Israeli enemy carried out an air assault with several missiles.”

It added that three soldiers were killed.

It said “Syrian air defences intercepted most of the missiles in the attack.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which has an extensive network of sources across the country, reported that explosions were heard in Damascus and its suburbs “after the interception of Israeli missiles by the Syrian regime’s anti-aircraft defence”.

It follows strikes in recent days on a town near the Golan Heights, a Syrian military post on February 17, and an assault against anti-aircraft batteries at the start of the month.