"At around 11:45 pm (2045 GMT), the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial attack," the defense ministry said.
It targeted "certain positions in the vicinity of Damascus," but anti-aircraft defenses came into action and brought down several missiles, according to the ministry.
It reported material damage but no casualties.
An AFP news hound in the Syrian capital heard explosions shortly before midnight local time (2100 GMT).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government air defense sites near Damascus where fighters from Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...'s Iran-backed Hezbollah are present were targeted.
One site north of the capital was around 10 kilometers from the Lebanese border, it said, reporting five maimed.
Another site between the airport and the Sayyida Zeinab area southeast of the capital where Iran-backed forces are present was also targeted, added the Britannia-based war-monitor, which has a vast network of sources on the ground in Syria.