A UK-based war monitor, reported that 15 people, including a woman, were killed in strikes.

Israeli airstrikes targeted a residential neighbourhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus early on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, a UK-based war monitor reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 15 people, including a woman, were killed in strikes targeting sites connected with Iranian militias and the Lebanese group Hizbollah. They took place in the Damascus countryside and on an Iranian school in the neighbourhood of Kafr Sousa in the capital, it said.

Loud explosions were heard over a central area of the capital around 12:30am local time, and SANA reported that Syrian air defences were "confronting hostile targets in the sky around Damascus.”

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Syrian state media agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that five people had been killed, among them a soldier, and 15 civilians wounded, along with "destruction of a number of residential buildings.”

There was no immediate statement from Israel on the attack.

Associated Press