Syria accused Israel of airstrikes in the vicinity of the Syrian capital of Damascus early Tuesday in which two soldiers were injured, the first such attack in over a month.
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A military statement said that in addition to the injuries, the strikes caused some "material losses," noting that Syrian air defenses had intercepted and shot down a number of missiles.
The last reported alleged Israeli attack in Syria was on Nov. 13 and killed two Syrian soldiers and wounded three others when airstrikes hit an airbase in the province of Homs.
Israel is said to have carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years. Although specific operations are rarely acknowledged, Israeli leaders have in the past acknowledged striking targets in Syria and elsewhere in an effort to thwart Iranian attempts to smuggle weapons to proxies such as Lebanon's Hezbollah terrorist group or to destroy weapons caches
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