Latest Israeli attack on Syria hits weapons depot in Damascus countryside

An Israeli airstrike in the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday killed 11 people, according to a war monitor, as Israel continues to target Syrian weapons and military infrastructure even after the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot that belonged to Assad’s forces near the industrial town of Adra, northeast of the capital.

The observatory said at least 11 people, mostly civilians, were killed.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group leading the new authority in Syria, were at the rubble-strewn site of the explosion on Monday.

Bodies were seen lying in the rubble and a sign was put up to indicate that there is unexploded ordnance.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighter Abu Ahmed said the source of the explosion remains unknown and that an investigation is ongoing.

The Israeli military did not comment on the airstrike Sunday.

Israel, which has launched hundreds of airstrikes over Syria since the country's uprising-turned-civil war broke out in 2011, rarely acknowledges them.