Fifteen people were killed and 16 others injured in Israeli strikes on Damascus in Syria, state media SANA said, citing a military source and marking one of the deadliest strikes in months to hit the Sryian capital.

Israel has killed two senior leaders of the Islamic Jihad terror organisation as it intensifies its air strikes in Syria.

Syria’s state news agency says Israel has carried out two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs.

DUBAI - Israel carried out attacks on the Mazzeh suburb of Damascus on Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA said, a day after a wave of deadly strikes on what Israel said were militant targets in the Syrian capital.

Syria's defence ministry has said twin Israeli air strikes have killed 15 people in the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus and in the outskirts of the capital.

Israeli forces launched an attack on the Mazzeh suburb of Damascus, igniting explosions near the Syrian capital, as reported by Syrian state media SANA. The assault escalates tensions in the region, drawing international attention to the ongoing conflict involving Israel and Syria.

Fifteen people were killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on a number of residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, citing a Syrian military source.

Syrian state-run media said Israel struck the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Friday, the second such attack in two days to hit the neighbourhood home