Smoke rises after strikes on Syria’s defense ministry in Damascus on July 16, 2025. Khalil Ashawi/Reuters
Israel said on July 16 that it launched airstrikes in the Syrian capital of Damascus, damaging the country’s defense ministry near its presidential palace, amid fighting in southern Syria.
“The IDF struck the entrance of the Syrian regime’s military headquarters in the area of Damascus in Syria,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on X.
