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Syrian Air Defenses Intercept 'Hostile Targets' Aimed at Damascus Area

Syrian air defenses respond to Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (Getty Images)
Syrian air defenses respond to Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (Getty Images)
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Syrian Air Defenses Intercept 'Hostile Targets' Aimed at Damascus Area

Syrian air defenses respond to Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (Getty Images)
Syrian air defenses respond to Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (Getty Images)

Syria state television said on Saturday air defenses had intercepted "hostile targets launched from the occupied territories" towards the countryside outside the capital Damascus.

State TV had earlier reported that explosions were heard in the countryside outside Damascus.

It was not immediately known what the TV meant by "occupied territories". But Israel, alarmed by Iran's growing regional influence and military presence in Syria, says it has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria to slow down Iranian entrenchment.

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Syrian Security Forces Search for Militants Who Refuse to Turn in Their Weapons

Weapons and ammunition handed over by members of Bashar Assad regime security forces are collected by members of the new government, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Weapons and ammunition handed over by members of Bashar Assad regime security forces are collected by members of the new government, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
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Syrian Security Forces Search for Militants Who Refuse to Turn in Their Weapons

Weapons and ammunition handed over by members of Bashar Assad regime security forces are collected by members of the new government, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Weapons and ammunition handed over by members of Bashar Assad regime security forces are collected by members of the new government, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

The forces together with armed vehicles were deployed in the city of Homs Thursday to look for the militants affiliated with ousted President Bashar Assad, state media reported.
SANA, citing a military official, said that the new de facto authorities led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group had set up centers in Syria’s third-largest city for former soldiers and militants to hand over their weapons, similar to other parts of Syria.
In early December, a lightning insurgency took out the decades-long rule of Assad in less than two weeks. HTS has since run much of war-torn Syria under the authority of its leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, The Associated Press said.
Officials who were part of Assad's notorious web of intelligence and security apparatus have been arrested over the past few weeks.