Syria has accused Israel of carrying out what it called a “flagrant” rocket attack on a major military base outside Damascus.<br /><br /> Explosions could be heard on video images published on social media, while smoke was seen rising from the area.<br /><br /> The airbase at Mezzah is used by President Assad’s elite Republican Guards.<br /><br /> Israel has in the past targeted positions of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group inside Syria.<br /><br /> Earlier a suicide bomber struck a heavily policed district of Damascus, killing at least seven people according to state television. Several others are said to have been wounded.<br /><br /> State TV quoted a police source as saying the suicide bomb went off in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood where some of Syria’s main security installations are located.<br /><br /> The report said it happened near a sports club, giving no more details.<br /><br /> The opposition monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based abroad but has a wide network of contacts inside the country, says four soldiers including a colonel were among the victims.<br /><br /> The information was not immediately confirmed.<br /><br /> Part of the district is home to government ministries and and intelligence headquarters, but the attack is said to have happened in a different sector.<br />
