Israeli warplanes target Aleppo countryside, says Syria
The Syrian state press blamed Israel for a round of airstrikes targeting its military facilities in the eastern Aleppo countryside.
![1183585101 An image grab shows on November 20, 2019 a ball of fire during a reported Israeli air strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. - The Israeli army confirmed that it carried out strikes against military sites in Damascus today, in response to rocket fire from Syria the previous day. "We just carried out wide-scale strikes of Iranian Quds Force & Syrian Armed Forces targets in Syria in response to the rockets fired at Israel by an Iranian force in Syria," the Israel Defense Forces tweeted. Syria](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2020/09/GettyImages-1183585101.jpg/GettyImages-1183585101.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=eF8FojMh)
The Syrian regime’s air defenses intercepted Israeli airstrikes in the northern city of Aleppo overnight Friday, Syrian state news sources reported.
"At 1:30 a.m. the Zionist enemy carried out an airstrike by a salvo of missiles targeting the area around the city of Aleppo," a military source told Syrian state news outlet SANA. "Our air defense systems hit and felled most of them."
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