Islamists launch rocket attack on Damascus: At least 3 killed, 30 wounded
A Syrian rebel Islamist group has launched a rocket attack on residential areas of Damascus leaving at least three killed and 30 wounded, local reports say, according to Sputnik News.
Rockets and shells fired by the Jaysh al-Islam or Islam army landed in the very heart of the Syrian capital, media report citing numerous witness accounts.
The rocket attack was apparently in revenge for airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Eastern Al-Ghouta, a rebel stronghold in Damascus.
Schools were closed due to the strikes and local residents were forced to take shelter from the attack.
In a Twitter post earlier this week the Islam Army's leader Mohammed bin Abdullah Zahran Aloush warned that Damascus was a "military zone" and that his group would respond to airstrikes by the Syrian military on Ghouta, which left dozen people killed.