Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Two Syrian soldiers were killed and seven other people injured in Israeli airstrikes that hit Damascus and its airport Monday night, Syrian news agencies said.
The Syrian Arab News Agency reported that "Israeli air aggression" around 10:20 p.m. on Monday was confronted by anti-missile defense systems. Missiles were fired from Israeli territory in the Golan Heights, the news agency reported. The missiles appeared to target the countryside outside the city as well as the international airport, where a Hezbollah operative was killed in July during an earlier Israeli airstrike.