ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least three soldiers in Syria were killed and others were injured in Israeli strikes, Syrian state media reported on Sunday.
The attack, which targeted different areas in Syria, led to the killing of three soldiers and wounding three others, the official Syrian news agency (SANA) cited a military source as saying.
The death of the soldiers came shortly after SANA said that Syria’s air defense intercepted Israeli missiles over the province of Tartus and in the country's center.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) claimed that the airstrikes that killed three soldiers targeted a military position of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Damascus, while the missiles on Tartus aimed at military positions housing “Iranian militias.”
"Israeli strikes targeted military sites of the regime forces and Iranian militias are present in the southern countryside of Tartus, where several missiles landed in the vicinity of Abu ‘Afsah village, and at an air defense base and radar in the area," the war monitor said.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria throughout its 11-year civil war, often claiming to target Iran-affiliated militias, such as Lebanon's Hezbollah group which supports the Syrian army.
Dozens of rocket attacks have been conducted by Israel in Syria since the start of the year.
Three Syrian soldiers were killed and about seven others were wounded as a result of an Israeli strike on Damascus in July.
