After nightfall, the Israeli military deployed its Patriot missile defense system to intercept a projectile incoming from Syria above the Golan Heights. The target of the pre-dawn explosions near Damascus was not immediately known, but the blast could be felt at least 15 kilometers (9 miles) away. The Syrian military said it would continue its "war on terror" — government parlance for the battle against all groups trying to oust Assad. Last July, the air defense system shot at a drone that the Israeli military said had crossed into its airspace from Syria. ———Associated Press writers Sara El Deeb and Hashem Osseiran in Beirut, Ian Deitch in Jerusalem, and Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.

Source: ABC News April 27, 2017 05:29 UTC