Israeli aircraft launched a number of missiles at targets near the Syrian city of Aleppo in the early hours of Friday morning, Syrian state media said.
Syrian news outlets reported the strikes hit unspecified targets in the town of al-Safirah, southeast of Aleppo, an area that once contained a Syrian regime missiles production facility.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The Israel Defense Forces did not comment on the reported strikes, in accordance with its long-standing policy to neither confirm nor deny its activities in Syria.
Aleppo is a major city in northern Syria, near its border with Turkey, and is an uncommon — but not unprecedented — site for reported Israeli airstrikes.
It was not immediately clear what was hit in the reported airstrike.
Syrian state news agency SANA cited a military source as saying that Syrian air defenses downed most of the Israeli missiles before they hit their targets. Syrian war analysts generally dismiss the military’s regular claims of interceptions as false, empty boasts.
Earlier this month, SANA said that the Israeli military launched missiles at targets near the central city of Homs.
According to the official SANA news outlet, Israeli jets fired “a burst of missiles” at the T-4 Syrian military airbase, the largest in the country, at 10:23 p.m., from the area of al-Tanf, a US-controlled region of Syria near the Iraq border.
A Syrian opposition group claimed that the strike killed 16 Iran-backed fighters.
The Israeli military has long maintained that the T-4 base, also known as Tiyas base, is being used by Iran to move weapons throughout the region, including to the powerful Hezbollah terror group, and to conduct its own operations.
A huge blast rocked a Jordanian military munitions depot early Friday, sparking a large fire, but there were no reports of casualties at the base situated in an uninhabited area.
“An explosion occurred in the early hours of Friday… in a warehouse containing unusable mortar bombs belonging to the armed forces,” a government spokesman said in a statement.
The blast happened in the city of Zarqa, 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of the capital Amman, where several Jordanian bases and depots are located
Images which swiftly spread on social media showed a huge ball of flame rising into the night sky, followed by the sound of several explosions.
An initial investigation had determined that “the explosion was caused by an electrical short circuit in warehouses situated in an isolated and uninhabited area” which was under camera surveillance.
The army, which swiftly closed off the area, acknowledged that there had been an explosion “in one of the ammunition depots which is being dismantled near the city of Zarqa.”
It added in a statement that “a committee has been set up to determine the causes of the explosion.”
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