(This June 14 story has been corrected to clarify that the missiles were targeting sites around Damascus and not Damascus itself, in the headline and paragraph 1)
(Reuters) – An Israeli air strike targeting sites around Syria’s Damascus left one Syrian soldier with “serious injuries and caused some material damage,” state news agency SANA reported early on Wednesday citing a military source.
Syrian air defences intercepted missiles Israel launched at 1:05 a.m. from the Golan Heights and “shot down some of them,” the source said.
Israel has for years been carrying out attacks against what it has described as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it began supporting President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war that started in 2011.
(Reporting by Kinda Makieh and Muhammad Al Gebaly; Writing by Enas Alashray; Editing by Leslie Adler, Cynthia Osterman and Tom Hogue)
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