An Israeli-led airstrike caused Aleppo's international airport to be put out of service, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported on Tuesday morning (March 7th), citing a military source.
Missiles launched from the Mediterranean Sea were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems, SANA said.
Since the beginning of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in its neighbor, primarily targeting positions of the Syrian army, Iranian forces and Lebanese Hezbollah, allies of the Syrian regime.
Israel regularly asserts that it will not allow Iran to extend its influence to its borders.
The Israeli army last year intensified its attacks on Syrian airports in order to disrupt arms deliveries from Iran to allied militias in Syria and Lebanon.
In early January, strikes targeted Damascus airport, targeting, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), "positions of Hezbollah and pro-Iranian groups in the airport and its surroundings, including including an arms depot".
With Reuters and AFP
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