A large explosion near the international airport in Damascus shook the Syrian capital on Thursday in what state media said was an Israeli missile strike on a military installation. Israel neither confirmed nor denied it was behind the blast, in keeping with official government policy. But Israel’s transport and intelligence minister Yisrael Katz told Israel’s Army Radio on Thursday that the incident was “entirely consistent with our...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 27, 2017 09:49 UTC