(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport yesterday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a ceasefire in its war-battered second city of Aleppo.
Israel has launched a series air strikes inside Syria since the outbreak of the country's armed uprising in 2011, including raids reportedly targeting Iranian rockets bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
"This afternoon, the Israeli enemy targeted two safe areas in Damascus province, namely the Dimas area and the Damascus International Airport," the army said in a statement read out on state television.
It said the strikes caused damage but that nobody was hurt.
Operations are both civilian and military at the airport, which lies southeast of Damascus near flashpoint areas including Eastern Ghouta, large parts of which are in rebel hands.
There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli authorities, but the Syrian army reiterated its claim the Jewish state is helping rebels fighting to oust President Bashar Al Assad.
"This direct aggression by Israel was carried out to help the terrorists in Syria, after our armed forces secured important victories in Deir Ezzor, Aleppo and elsewhere," the army said.
Yesterday's air raids proved "Israel's direct support for terrorism in Syria," it said.
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