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The Syrian army says Israel has struck targets in Homs province, just north of Lebanon, killing or injuring a number of people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles, Syrian state media say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attacks targeted Shuyrat air base and other sites near the city of Homs, a Syrian military source was reported as saying by Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the Gaza war broke out in October, Israeli attacks on Iranian-backed militia targets have escalated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said four people had been killed in Tuesday evening’s attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Syrian state television showed ambulances rushing to the scene of an air strike where rubble from a building could be seen, Reuters reports, adding that it could not verify the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two civilians are among the dead, the Syrian Observatory told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israel has carried out military strikes in Syria for years, against what it says are Iran-linked targets. However, it rarely comments on individual strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iranian forces have been present in Syria since the early stages of the Syrian civil war, where they helped support the government of President Bashar al-Assad against a widespread rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last week, the US bombed what it said were Iran-linked targets in Syria and Iraq in response to the killing of three US service personnel in Jordan on 28 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: The Syrian army says Israel has struck targets in Homs province, just north of Lebanon, killing or injuring a number of people. Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles, Syrian state media say. The attacks targeted Shuyrat air base and other sites near the city of Homs, a Syrian military source was reported as saying by Reuters news agency. Since the Gaza war broke out in October, Israeli attacks on Iranian-backed militia targets have escalated. A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said four people had been killed in Tuesday evening’s attacks. Syrian state television showed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37473,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37471\/revisions\/37473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}