Beirut, May 10, 2018 (News Wires) — Syria's military says overnight Israeli airstrikes killed three people, wounded two and destroyed a radar station, an ammunition warehouse, and damaged a number of air defence units. Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mayhoub, who read the statement on Syrian television Thursday, says Syrian air defence systems had intercepted "the large part" of the incoming Israeli strikes. Mayhoub did not say whether Iranian forces or Iran-backed militiamen were among those killed or wounded. Israel's defence minister says the military struck "nearly all" of Iran's military facilities in Syria. A Syrian war monitoring group says the strikes killed at least 23 people, including five Syrian soldiers. The Russian military says Israel fired more than 70 missiles at Iranian facilities in Syria and that Syrian air defences shot down more than half of them. Israel says it struck dozens of Iranian targets overnight in response to a rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights. It was the biggest Israeli strike in Syria since the 1973 war. The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that 28 Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighter jets launched about 60 air-to-surface missiles during the two-hour raid early Thursday. It says Israel also fired over 10 tactical surface-to-surface missiles.
