Several people were killed and others injured in Israeli attacks that targeted two residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, Syrian state news agency SANA said.

Syria’s state news agency says Israel has carried out two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs.

Israeli airstrikes on a western neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least 15 people on Thursday, Syrian state media said. The news agency, SANA, said the airstrikes on the Mazzeh neighbourhood in Damascus and the suburb of Qudsaya northwest of the capital struck two buildings, damaging a five-storey building.

DUBAI (Reuters) -Fifteen people were killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on a number of residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported,

Fifteen people were killed and 16 others injured in Israeli strikes on Damascus in Syria, state media SANA said, citing a military source and marking one of the deadliest strikes in months to hit the Syrian capital.

Following the Israeli airstrike, Syrian state media, SANA, reported an initial death toll of 15, with at least 16 people being injured.

Syrian state media says 2 Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital and a western suburb have killed 15 people.

Attacks reportedly targeted two buildings which Israeli forces said were linked to Islamic Jihad.   17:37 The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) said on Thursday that two or three unknown people fired approximately 30 shots in the direction of peacekeepers,