Syrian state media on Friday reported that overnight the Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike on a regime army base just outside of Damascus, apparently striking a shipment of Scud missiles.<br />The Syrian sources, including those identified with Bashar al-Assad's regime, said the target on Thursday night was a convoy from the base of the Syrian Army Brigade 155 in Al-Katifa, a northern suburb of Damascus, according to Channel 2.<br />A convoy of four trucks loaded with ballistic missiles was hit in the strike, and according to the report, the base houses long-range Scud missiles that are shipped from there to northern Syria as part of the civil war.
