SYRIA was hit by a series of Israeli air strikes today, leaving one soldier wounded.

The attacks on sites in southern Syria were reported by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, which said that air defences had shot down some of the missiles and that they came from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that Israeli strikes had also hit two military sites in the Qalamoun mountains north-east of Damascus, an area where Lebanese group Hezbollah is operating.