BEIRUT -- Several surface-to-surface missiles fired by Israel early Saturday caused damage to a military post near the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syria's state-run news agency reported.
The airstrike came as violence resumed in the Damascus suburbs after days of calm while the government and opposition delegations attended peace talks in Geneva.
The Israeli military did not comment on the missile attack, which occurred shortly after midnight Friday, targeting a military area near the southern Damascus suburb of Kiswah.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said the missile attack caused material damage, but it gave no details. The report also said that Syrian air defenses shot down two of the Israeli missiles.
Rami Abdurrahman who heads the opposition's Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missile attack targeted an arms depot near Kiswah where the Syrian army's 1st Division is based.
Also in the suburbs of Damascus, government forces resumed their airstrikes and bombing of rebel-held areas Saturday, killing and wounding several people, according to the Observatory and a Syrian Civil Defense search-and-rescue group known as the White Helmets.
Syrian state TV also said the rebels shelled several Damascus neighborhoods, wounding at least three people.
The government and opposition resumed peace talks Tuesday in Geneva. The U.N.-hosted negotiations paused for the weekend but are scheduled to resume Tuesday.
The Observatory said six people were killed in Saturday's government airstrike on Arbeen, while the White Helmets said airstrikes on the suburb of Harasta killed one person and wounded others, including women and children.
Harasta and Arbeen are in the Eastern Ghouta region, one of the hubs in the uprising against President Bashar Assad in 2011. The area, long besieged by government forces, is now facing the highest recorded malnutrition rate in the country since the outbreak of the war more than six years ago, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
Information for this article was contributed by Albert Aji of The Associated Press.
A Section on 12/03/2017