Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 20 Sep 2019, 06:50 am Print
Damascus, Sept 20 (Xinhua/UNI) Syrian air defenses destroyed an unidentified drone near the capital Damascus on Thursday evening, state TV reported.
The air defenses discovered an "enemy target" in the airspace of Aqraba town in southern Damascus' countryside and shot it down.
Later, it was known that the target was a drone, said the report.
The report said that the Syrian air defenses have confronted several Israeli and US missile and drone attacks in different areas across Syria.
Still, the official report stopped short of exactly naming the party behind the attack.
eanwhile, the report said explosions were heard over the Damascus' southeastern Jaramana neighborhood.
On Monday, at least 10 fighters were killed by suspected Israeli airstrikes that targeted positions of Iranian-backed fighters, including Iraqis, in eastern Syria.
Earlier this month, 18 Iranian-backed fighters were killed by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Bukamal.
In June, 2018, Israeli airstrikes killed 55 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters near Al-Bukamal.
Israel considers Iran its arch-foe and has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, charging the attacks target Iranian sites and weapons convoys to Hezbollah.
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