Syrian state media says Israel strikes kill soldier

Syrian state media said Israeli air strikes hit a residential area of Damascus and a military site in Homs Thursday, killing a soldier and wounding seven other people.

The Israeli army "launched an attack from the occupied Syrian Golan and from north Lebanon targeting two sites" in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus and a military site near Homs, the official SANA news agency reported citing a military source.

SANA said a soldier was killed and seven others wounded in the strike in Homs, a central province which borders Lebanon, where Israeli troops are fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Syrian state media made no mention of any casualties in the Damascus strike but the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights spoke of "human losses".