Explosions reported at Syrian military airport

A series of blasts were reported late Saturday at an Assad regime military airport in Mazzeh, Syria. State-run news agencies attributed the explosions to an electrical fault and denied speculation that they could have been caused by an Israeli missile strike.

"[M]ilitary source denies the exposure of the Mazzeh Airport to any Israeli aggression," the report said, "and the sounds of explosions that were heard resulted from explosion of an ammunition depot near the airport because of electrical failure."

Eyewitnesses thought otherwise. "I assume it was from an airstrike because of the explosions afterwards and ambulances with firefighters that went to the scene," a Damascus resident told CNN.

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