By Turgut Alp Boyraz
JERUSALEM
Israel on Sunday declined to comment on reported airstrikes in an area near Damascus International Airport in neighboring Syria.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was aware of news about the airstrikes in Syria.
"But we are not responding to it," Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel
Nahson told The Anadolu Agency by phone.
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli warplanes bombed the area near Damascus International Airport and the town of Dimas, according to local Syrian media.
The local media quoted residents in the bombed areas as saying that they had heard explosions.
The Syrian government has not reported any casualties from the alleged strikes yet.
Civil war has been engulfing Syria for almost four years now, which caused the death of tens of thousands of people and the displacement of millions of others both inside and outside the Arab state.
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