DAMASCUS, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Syrian air defenses intercepted Friday two combat drones launched from the direction of Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said air defenses shot the two unmanned aerial vehicles down west of the capital Damascus after they violated the Syrian airspace around 2:10 p.m. local time (1110 GMT).
Meanwhile, witnesses told Xinhua that an explosion was heard in the Western Villas of Mazzeh neighborhood in the capital city. Last month, a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in an air raid on a residential building in the same neighborhood.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, the Mazzeh military airport and a house in another area west of Damascus were hit by Israel-launched missiles on Friday, while the third missile was shot down by the Syrian air defenses.
It noted that Israel usually targets areas that harbor Iranian-backed fighters.
The attack is the latest in a string of Israeli targeting of Syrian areas. On Wednesday, nine people were killed and over 20 others wounded in a midnight Israeli missile attack on a residential area in Homs province. ■
