Syria’s foreign ministry condemns alleged Israeli strikes on an international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, calling them “cowardly.”
It accuses Israel of “threatening freedom of aircraft movement” and “the safety of international civil aviation,” in a statement carried by SANA.
The Syrian state news agency, SANA, said that at around 4:30 a.m., Israeli Air Force warplanes fired their missiles from over the Mediterranean Sea, west of the coastal Syrian city of Latakia, and targeted Aleppo International Airport.
It said the airport was forced shut temporarily due to heavy damage caused to the runway by the strikes.
Israel did not comment.
AFP contributed to this report.
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