Syrian State News Agency Reports Multiple Explosions Heard in Damascus Suburbs

On Saturday, April 6, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the sound of consecutive explosions was heard in the suburbs of Damascus, the capital of the country, and the nature of these explosions is under investigation. SANA did not provide any explanation regarding these explosions at the time of publication. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights noted that the explosions in Damascus were due to the firing of Syrian air defense systems. According to this report, anti-aircraft missiles were fired at two suspicious targets in the suburbs of Damascus. The news of the explosions in the suburbs of Damascus comes after an attack attributed to Israel on Monday, April 1, on the building of the Islamic Republic's consulate in Damascus, where at least six commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, commander of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, were killed. The Islamic Republic has blamed Israel for this attack, and the leader and other senior political and military officials have threatened that this attack will not go unanswered. An account attributed to Ali Khamenei on the social media platform 'X' also threatened on Wednesday, April 3, in a post written in Hebrew, that Israel would regret its 'crime of aggression against the Iranian consulate in Damascus.' Israel has continued its usual practice of refraining from commenting on attacks attributed to it against the positions of the Islamic Republic and its proxy forces in Syria.