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Report: Explosions heard at Iranian facility near Damascus Monday morning
Missed this earlier, so here it is.
[IsraelTimes] Sky News Arabia says blasts target electronic warfare facility used by Tehran south of Syrian capital; no confirmation

Explosions rocked an area thought to house an Iranian facility near Damascus early Monday morning, according to a report in Sky News Arabia.

There was no immediate confirmation of the kaboom and it was not clear what may have caused the blasts, which came days after another mysterious kaboom at a Syrian base.
Israel's new, stealthy F35s are operational, it has been reported...
Sky News said locals reported hearing kabooms in the area of Najjah, a neighborhood south of Damascus which houses a military academy.

According to the report, the blasts are thought to have occurred at an Iranian electronic warfare facility there.

There was no immediate word from Syria, which was said to be on the verge of pushing the last pockets of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 resistance out of southern Damascus on Monday.

Israel has increasingly taken aim at Iranian facilities in southern Syria over recent months as it attempts to keep Tehran from gaining a military foothold on its doorstep.

The sorties, which Israel rarely admits to openly, have led to increased tensions in the border region and earlier this month sparked a barrage of 20 missiles at northern Israel, drawing a massive Israeli reprisal attack.
Increased tensions, perhaps, but substantially less in the way of war material, manufacturing facilities, and men.
The kabooms were reported after mysterious blasts tore through weapons and fuel depots on Friday at a military airport in Syria’s Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, killing at least 28 people.

Syrian state media reported the blasts at the time but did not provide any details, while the Observatory had said they were likely due to a technical malfunction.

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
 the Sky News Arabia outlet reported that those kabooms were caused by an attack on an advanced Iranian air defense system, despite it coming in the middle of the day, when Israel rarely carries out Arclight airstrikes.
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