Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years.It called the raids "the heaviest strikes in Syria's coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012".

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Israeli warplanes conducted airstrikes late Sunday on military positions in Syria's Latakia and Tartus provinces, according to information from an aircraft observation post. The attacks targeted several key sites in western Syria, including military bases and ammunition depots.

A UK-based war monitor says Israeli airstrikes early Monday hit missile warehouses in Syria and called it the “most violent strikes” since 2012. Israel has been pounding what it says are military sites in Syria after the dramatic collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule,

Israeli forces have reportedly launched more airstrikes over Syria, according to the U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory. The strikes targeted missile warehouses and other former Syrian army sites along the country's coastline.