Syrian state media reported explosions on Saturday morning in the Deir Ezzor region in the east of the country.
The SANA report said the blasts were caused by airstrikes and targeted an area surrounding a bridge.
There were no immediate reports of casualties and the alleged strikes were not attributed to any country.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups.
Thousands of Iran-backed militiamen are deployed in different parts of Syria, with many of them in areas along the border with Iraq, including the region surrounding Deir Ezzor.
Last month, Israel was alleged to have carried out strikes in Syria on three separate occasions, also including a daytime strike.
In the most recent of the raids on April 27, four Syrian soldiers were killed and three were hurt in a strike near the capital Damascus, Syria’s state media said.
Syrian state media quoted an unidentified Syrian military official as saying surface-to-surface missiles were fired from northern Israel at military positions near Damascus.
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