Syria says Israeli strikes in Damascus serve disparate terrorists

The General Command of the Syrian army said the Israeli strikes against two Syrian positions on Sunday reflect Israel's direct involvement in supporting the terrorism in Syria, according to the state news agency SANA.

"This aggression stresses Israel's direct involvement in supporting the terrorism in Syria alongside other Arab and Western countries to lift the moral of the terrorist groups, mainly the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front and the Islamic State (IS) militants," said the statement.

It said that "such aggressions would not dissuade the Syrian army from continuing its fight against terrorism with all of its shapes and tools on all Syrian soil," said the army general command, adding that the strikes came to "support the terrorist following the victories the Syrian troops have recently scored in the provinces of Deir al-Zour and Aleppo."

Israeli forces on Sunday afternoon hit two Syrian positions in the capital Damascus in a "flagrant aggression," striking near the international airport of Damascus and the al-Dimas countryside and leaving damages in some facilities, said SANA.

The Israeli air force struck several Syrian military sites over the span of the nearly four-year-old crisis.

The last Israeli missiles struck a research center near Damascus in May 2013 and another site in January of the same year Enditem