Important Takeaways:

• ‘Colossal’ explosions have filled the skies in Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the ‘the heaviest strikes’ in the area for more than a decade – with blasts which registered on earthquake sensors.
• A war monitor group said that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region.
• ‘Israeli warplanes launched strikes’ targeting a series of sites including air defense units and ‘surface-to-surface missile depots’, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were ‘the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012’.
• It has been claimed that the explosion was so large, it measured as a magnitude 3.0 on seismic sensors.
• Tartus has been the location of one of Russia’s two military bases in Syria and was used as a naval base, as well as an ammunition depot.
• The huge explosion, as well as secondary explosions, may indicate the presence of a large volume of stored armaments.

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