November 23, 2024 00:55 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
'Third World War has begun:' Ex-Ukraine military commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny | UK-India Free Trade Agreement negotiations to resume in early 2024 | UK can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits country based on ICC warrant | Centre to send over 10,000 additional soldiers to violence-hit Manipur amid fresh violence | Chhattisgarh: 10 Maoists killed during encounter with security forces in Sukma
Syrian air defenses destroy drone near capital
Representative Image of a drone from Pixabay

Syrian air defenses destroy drone near capital

| @indiablooms | 20 Sep 2019, 04:50 am

Damascus, Sept 20 (Xinhua/UNI) Syrian air defenses destroyed an unidentified drone near the capital Damascus on Thursday evening, state TV reported.

The air defenses discovered an "enemy target" in the airspace of Aqraba town in southern Damascus' countryside and shot it down.
Later, it was known that the target was a drone, said the report.


The report said that the Syrian air defenses have confronted several Israeli and US missile and drone attacks in different areas across Syria.
Still, the official report stopped short of exactly naming the party behind the attack.


Meanwhile, the report said explosions were heard over the Damascus' southeastern Jaramana neighborhood.


On Monday, at least 10 fighters were killed by suspected Israeli airstrikes that targeted positions of Iranian-backed fighters, including Iraqis, in eastern Syria.


Earlier this month, 18 Iranian-backed fighters were killed by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Bukamal.


In June, 2018, Israeli airstrikes killed 55 Iranian and pro-Iranian fighters near Al-Bukamal.


Israel considers Iran its arch-foe and has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria, charging the attacks target Iranian sites and weapons convoys to Hezbollah.  

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.
Related Images
Xi Jinping, Putin in Russia 22 Mar 2023, 02:56 pm
Related Videos