As he stressed that Syria would surely win the war, Army chief of Staff, General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, said that his army’s capabilities could not be tested.

As he stressed that Syria would surely win the war, Army chief of Staff, General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, said that his army’s capabilities could not be tested, referring to the Israeli strike that targeted a Syrian scientific research center on Wednesday.

During a field visit General Ayyoub paid to a number of the armed forces units and formations, the army Chief of Staff asserted Damascus’ commitment “to our national and pan-Arab stances,: adding: “we are aware of the volume of challenges we face."

“Mistaken anyone who thinks that he can test our military capabilities,” General Ayyoub told the Syrian army units, in a real message to the Zionist entity, which launched an airstrike on a scientific research center on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring five others.

According to state news agency, SANA, Ayyoub said that the war with the Israeli enemy is continuous; indicating to there is a tight relation between the Zionist entity and its tools of the criminal gangs which practice the organized terrorism against the Syrian people.

Meanwhile, the Syrian Foreign Ministry sent a letter to the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, calling on the council to issue a ‘clear condemnation’ of the recent Israeli airstrike.

Foreign Ministry urged the Council to issue a “clear condemnation of the flagrant Israeli attack on the territories of a sovereign state and the Israeli violation of the UN Charter, the international law, the Disengagement of Forces Agreement in 1974 and the relevant UNSC resolutions,” SANA reported on Thursday.