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The US says its military is not active in the area, leading to speculation
that Israel is behind the attack.
Syrian government troops have shot down missiles fired at two airbases in
the country, according to state TV.
https://news.sky.com/story/missiles-shot-down-over-syria-airbases-reports-11334412
The reports said the missiles had targeted Shayrat airbase in Homs
province and Dumair military airport, northeast of Damascus, late on
Monday night.
State TV said the country's air defences had confronted a new "aggression"
but gave no further details.
It is unclear who was behind the attack, but the US said its military was
not involved.
Shayrat was hit last year by US cruise missiles, launched in response to a chemical attack that killed at least 70 people in the rebel-held town of
Khan Sheikhoun.
Dumair is used by Syria's military to support the campaign against rebels
in eastern Ghouta.
It comes just days after the UK, US and France launched airstrikes on
three targets following the latest alleged chemical attack by the Syrian
regime in Douma.
But US Pentagon spokeswoman Heather Babb said: "There are no US or
coalition operations in that area."
There has been speculation that Israel launched the strikes.
An Israeli military spokesman said: "We don't comment on such reports."
Israel's main concern in Syria is the growing influence of Iran, which it
says supplies weapons to Hezbollah from inside the country.
Israel has struck Syrian military targets before and was blamed for
strikes earlier this month on the T4 air base in Homs.
That attack killed four Iranian military personnel - but Israel did not
confirm or deny involvement.
Moscow and Damascus claimed two Israeli fighter planes carried out that airstrike "remotely from Lebanese territory".
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov described it as a "provocation" and
a "very dangerous development".
### - conflicting reports currently but does appear to be israel behind
this while reputedly aiming at iranian targets in syria, even though the Shayrat airbase is the same one that was targeted by the US this time last
year for allegedly being connected with a chemical attack... other reports
of it being only a false alarm and the missiles involved being syria's own
air defense going off (doubtful) with yet another report of up to 9
inbound missiles being shot down by syrian air defense in this latest
attack...
again, the main worry being russia's potential response based on their assertion that they'd shoot down anything hostile coming into syrian
airspace + destroy any launch platforms involved, although it's hard to
imagine russia lobbing anything at israel directly...
disturbing...
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