Israeli strikes put Damascus airport out of service again

Israeli air strikes on Sunday made Damascus airport inoperable just hours after flights had resumed following a similar attack last month, a war monitor said, as state media also reported the attack.

"Israeli warplanes on Sunday afternoon carried out a new raid targeting Damascus international airport… putting it out of service again," said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

It said the raid targeted the runways, and reported the sound of an explosion from the direction of a military airport elsewhere in the capital.

A military source said in a statement carried by state news agency Sana that at around 4.50pm (13.50 GMT), "the Zionist enemy carried out an air attack with missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan [Heights]".