{"id":15430,"date":"2018-09-17T21:23:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15430"},"modified":"2018-09-17T21:23:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:23:12","slug":"syrian-air-defences-intercept-missiles-targeting-latakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15430","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air defences ‘intercept missiles’ targeting Latakia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Syrian air defences have intercepted and downed missiles targeting several locations in the northwestern city of Latakia, according to state media.<\/p>\n

The official SANA news agency said on Monday that “state technical industry institutions” in Latakia had been targeted, blaming Israel for the strikes.<\/p>\n

“Air defences have confronted enemy missiles coming from the sea in the direction of the Latakia city, and intercepted a number of them,” SANA quoted a military source as saying.<\/p>\n

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The attack comes just hours after Turkey and Russia agreed to establish a buffer zone<\/a> in the rebel-held province of Idlib.<\/p>\n

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, said huge explosions were heard in the state-controlled western city.<\/p>\n

The missiles targeted ammunition depots of the technical industry institution in the eastern outskirts of Latakia, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from the Israeli government, but in recent days it has targeted several Syrian areas to prevent what it said were weapons transfers to its enemies.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a senior Israeli military official said the army had struck more than 200 targets in\u00a0Syria<\/a>, focussing on Iranian weapons and other targets.<\/p>\n

In late August, Israeli Prime Minister\u00a0Benjamin Netanyahu said<\/a>\u00a0his country would take\u00a0“strong and determined action against\u00a0Iran’s attempts to station forces and advanced weapons systems in Syria”.<\/p>\n

His statement came days after\u00a0Iran and Syria signed a deal<\/a>\u00a0for military cooperation.<\/p>\n

Tehran has provided steady political, financial and military backing to Syrian President\u00a0Bashar al-Assad<\/a>, who has presided over\u00a0a seven-year civil war that has left nearly half a million Syrians dead and half of the country’s pre-war population of 12 million displaced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syrian air defences have intercepted and downed missiles targeting several locations in the northwestern city of Latakia, according to state media. The official SANA news agency said on Monday that “state technical industry institutions” in Latakia had been targeted, blaming Israel for the strikes. “Air defences have confronted enemy missiles coming from the sea in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}