Israeli strikes hit Syria's coastal province

AFP , Thursday 27 Mar 2025

Syrian state media said Israeli strikes targeted the coastal Latakia province on Thursday, with a war monitor saying munitions depots were hit.

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File photo : This picture shows the destruction after an Israeli strike a day earlier in Syria's southern town of Daraa. AFP

 

"In a number of air strikes, Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the vicinity of the Al-Abyad port and the city of Latakia," state news agency SANA reported.

Authorities were working to ensure there were no casualties, SANA added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the raids targeted "munitions depots" at the port, located on the northern outskirts of Latakia city.

The Britain-based monitor, which relies on a network of sources inside Syria, reported "huge material damage and the destruction of a munitions depot".

It said the port had previously been targeted in December.

Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on military sites since Islamist-led insurgents ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad on December 8.

On Tuesday, the Israeli military said it had "struck military capabilities" at two military bases in central Syria, after striking the same sites days earlier.

Tuesday also saw six civilians killed in Israeli bombardment in south Syria's Daraa province, authorities said.

Israel occupied the buffer zone in southwestern Syria adjacent to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and carried out an aerial campaign targeting the Syrian Army's military capabilities, following the fall of Assad .

The Observatory has reported near-daily Israeli military incursions into southern Syria beyond the demarcation line in recent months.

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