Israeli Missile Strike Kills 4 Near Damascus, Syria Says

Syrian state media reported on Monday that an Israeli missile attack targeting the vicinity of Syria’s capital, Damascus, had killed four soldiers and wounded four others.

The report, which cited an unidentified military source, said the strike had occurred at about 2:20 a.m. and had come from the direction of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed.

Syrian air defenses shot some of the missiles down, according to the report, which said there had been…