BEIRUT - Rockets hit Damascus International Airport on Thursday, activists and local media said, in one of the first major rebel attacks on the facility near the Syrian capital in months.The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said several homemade rockets hit the airport, which had been surrounded and briefly cut off by a rebel offensive last year.Syrian state television said mortar fire hit the outer edge of the airport near a runway, forcing several flights to be delayed as a precaution. It said one person was wounded when a storage facility was hit.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)