Iranian-controlled weapons facility in Syria said hit in strike

Unidentified aircraft bomb an Iranian-controlled weapons storehouse in eastern Syria causing a massive explosion, a Syrian opposition news site reports.

According to Step News, the planes fired several missiles at warehouses in the al-Hamdan airport, outside Deir ez-Zor, in the Abulkamal region of Syria, an area that has reportedly been targeted several times by Israeli airstrikes on Iranian facilities.

Troops on the ground fired anti-aircraft weapons at the attacking planes, the news site reports.

There are no immediate reports of casualties.

— Judah Ari Gross

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