Israel strikes Syrian air base where Iranian and Hezbollah fighters are reportedly stationed

At least five people have been killed and two others injured in a reported Israeli air strike within Syria on Sunday night, the state news agency reported. 

The strike — on the T-4 air base near Homs, where Israel has previously said Iranian-backed operatives are stationed — came a day after Syrian rocket fire towards the Golan Heights prompted a retaliatory Israeli air strike. 

"Our air defences thwarted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two of the rockets that targeted the T-4 airbase," the Syrian state news agency Sana said late on Sunday. 

The report added that the remaining rockets “killed one soldier, wounded two others, and damaged an arms warehouse.”