“At the suggestion of the United States, there is a threat of turning Syria into an arena of Israeli-Iranian confrontation,” TASS quoted him as saying during a speech at the Moscow Conference on International Security.

Earlier, the Syrian Defense Ministry said that three Syrian soldiers were killed and several more were injured during an Israeli Air Force attack on the outskirts of Damascus and the province of Tartus.

In July, the SANA agency reported that the air defense system was destroying missiles in the sky over the Syrian capital of Damascus.

As a result of the shelling of Damascus by Israel, three Syrian soldiers were killed, seven more were injured.