Syria’s Alikhbaria TV reported that Israeli forces intercepted an Iranian missile over the village of Al-Hayran in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria, with no casualties reported.

The assault marks a dramatic escalation of Trump’s increasingly belligerent foreign policy, despite his having campaigned against war and military adventurism. “I’m not going to start wars,” Trump declared on election night in 2024.

The biggest disruption to global air transport since the Covid pandemic continued Sunday, with thousands of flights affected and busy Middle Eastern hubs including Dubai and Doha shuttered as Iran

Syria’s official SANA news agency had earlier said that the fall of an Iranian missile on a building in Suweida killed four people.

DAMASCUS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and several others wounded when an Iranian missile struck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Saturday, the state news agency SANA said.

The decision came as US President Donald Trump ramps up military presence in the Middle East as tensions mount with Iran.

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