Israel strikes Syrian air base – state media

At least two Syrian service members have been killed and three more people injured in an alleged “Israeli air aggression” against a military facility in the central province of Homs, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Sunday.

Syria’s air defenses were activated to repel the attack at around 6:20pm local time on Sunday, an unnamed military official told SANA. The missiles reportedly came from the direction of northern Lebanon, and while some of them were intercepted, several projectiles hit the Shayrat military airport in Homs countryside, killing at least two soldiers in addition to inflicting some “material losses.”

The strikes apparently targeted the airbase’s runway, a military source told Reuters, amid reports that the airbase had recently been used by Iranian forces.