An Israeli air strike in Syria killed 15 people early Sunday and badly damaged a building in a Damascus district that is home to several state security agencies, a war monitoring group said.
Civilians, including two women, were among those killed in “the deadliest Israeli attack in the Syrian capital” so far, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The overnight strike damaged a 10-storey building near an Iranian cultural centre in the capital’s Kafr Sousa district, which is home to senior state officials and Syrian intelligence headquarters, said the Britain-based Observatory.
It was not immediately clear who was the intended target of the strike which AFP correspondents reported left a large crater in the rubble-strewn street below and blew out windows of nearby buildings.
Other missiles overnight hit a warehouse that belongs to pro-regime Iranian and Hezbollah fighters near Damascus, said the Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria
