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Syrian state TV said on Friday that “American aggression” had targeted a Syrian military base with “a number of missiles”.
A headline bar on Syrian state TV had earlier said the aggression had targeted “Syrian military targets”. It gave no further details.
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Since then, a Syrian military source said a US missile strike on a Syrian air base had led to “losses.”
“One of our air bases in the central region was exposed at dawn today to a missile strike by the United States, leading to losses,” a Syrian state TV news flash cited the source as saying.