Syrian air defences shoot down ‘hostile targets’: state media

The Israeli military says it is carrying out overnight strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, while Syrian state media is reporting that the country’s air defences have shot down “hostile targets”.

“We have started striking Iranian Quds targets in Syrian territory. We warn the Syrian Armed Forces against attempting to harm Israeli forces or territory,” Israel’s military said in a statement in the early hours of Monday.

News agency reports quoted witnesses in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as saying that loud explosions rang out in the night sky.

The strikes followed cross-border attacks on Sunday in which Syria said it repelled an Israeli air attack.

Israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the occupied Golan Heights.