DAMASCUS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Rebels mortar fire targeted Syria's Damascus international airport on Wednesday, when flights for participants in the Sochi Syrian talks were on the runway, state news agency SANA reported.
No causalities were reported after two mortar rounds landed inside the airport, said SANA, adding that they were fired by the rebels in the eastern countryside of Damascus.
The state news agency spelled no further details.
Local reports said that the mortar rounds landed at the runway of the airport just as two airplanes transporting participants in the Syrian National Dialogue Congress held in Russia were on the runway.
No one was injured, as the mortars slammed between two airplanes, leaving damage on the ground and shattered some windows of the departure hall.
A total of 172 passengers were quickly evacuated from the runway.
Following the attack, Syrian warplanes flew over the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta countryside, from which the mortars were fired.
A day earlier, the Russian-sposored Syrian National Dialogue Congress held in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi concluded with participants agreeing on respecting the territorial integrity of Syria and forming a committee to discuss revising the current constitution in a bid to end the protracted civil war.
