Israel strikes Syria military airport

Syria accused Israel on Monday of carrying out deadly bombing raids on a military air base in the country's centre, state news agency SANA reported.The Israeli attack on the T-4 airport was carried out with F-15 aircraft that fired several missiles from above Lebanese territory.

Both the US and France denied the air strikes on Syrian military targets, which had reportedly killed Iranians.

Several US officials said on Sunday there was no truth to reports that the US military had launched air strikes against a Syrian government air base.

The US denial followed a report by Syrian



state television of loud explosions heard near the T-4 airfield in the Syrian city of Homs in the early hours of Monday that was believed to have been targeted in a suspected US missile strike.

14 killed, including allied Iranian forces, were killed in the early-morning strike on a Syrian government air base, said a monitoring group on Monday.

Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says most of the 14 killed were either Iranians or members of Iran-backed groups. 

The Observatory says it wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the attack.