The Latest: Syrian TV says missiles targeted military posts
Syrian TV is reporting a "new aggression," with missiles targeting military outposts in northern Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- The latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
1:40 a.m.
Syrian TV is reporting a "new aggression," with missiles targeting military outposts in northern Syria.
The state-run television reported early Monday that the missiles targeted military outposts in the Hama and Aleppo countryside. It did not say who fired the missiles or whether there were any casualties or damage.
The news comes less than two weeks after a similar report of airstrikes on government military installations in the central Homs region and the suburbs of Damascus. But the military later said a false alarm had set off air defense systems.
Earlier this month, seven Iranian military personnel were killed in an airstrike on Syria's T4 air base, also in Homs.
Syria, Iran and Russia blamed Israel for that attack. Israel did not confirm or deny it.
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Syrian government forces briefly captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour on Sunday after rare clashes with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters, before losing the area in a counteroffensive by the Kurdish-led force.
The area close to the border with Iraq has been the site of recent clashes between the two sides who had been focusing on fighting the Islamic State group. The IS had declared its caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq.
Crossings into the east bank of the Euphrates in eastern Syria by government forces have been rare.
State news agency SANA said the villages were held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, adding that they are close to the provincial capital, also called Deir el-Zour. The SDF said in a statement later that it regained control of the whole area it earlier lost.
