Overnight strikes targeted former army positions, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor. Israel has said it aims to keep military equipment away from extremists.

Weapons of war accumulated by the toppled Assad regime over half of a century are being systemically obliterated by massive Israeli airstrikes.

U.S. officials say they’ve made direct contact with the Syrian rebel group that led the overthrow against the Assad regime. Meanwhile, as citizens there try to put their lives back together, Israel is launching airstrikes on military targets inside Syria.