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INCLUDES warning series on explosions in Damascus, Israeli attacks and destroyed Syrian infrastructure

A war monitor said on Tuesday that Israel had destroyed “key military sites in Syria” with a barrage of airstrikes since toppling President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Israel, which borders Syria, sent troops to a buffer zone east of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights after Assad’s fall, in what Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called a “limited and temporary step” for “security reasons.”

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, “about 250 air strikes were also carried out on Syrian territory” in the last 48 hours, with the aim of destroying the military capabilities of the former regime.

“Israel destroyed the most important military sites in Syria, including Syrian airports and their warehouses, aircraft squadrons, radars, military signal stations and many weapons and ammunition depots in various locations in most Syrian governorates,” the British-based Observatory said in a statement on Tuesday .

Near the port city of Latakia, Israel targeted an air defense facility and damaged Syrian naval ships and military camps.

In and around the capital Damascus, the attacks targeted military facilities, research centers and the electronic warfare administration.

Early Tuesday, AFP journalists heard loud explosions in Damascus, hours after the attacks reported by the Observatory.

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