Syria's interim government has asked the United Nations to intervene in Israel's occupation of a key site in the strategically important Golan Heights following the collapse of the Assad regime.

Overnight Israeli strikes targeted former Syrian Army positions, including air defense sites and missile warehouses, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israeli warplanes hit air defence units and “surface-to-surface missile depots”, part of a campaign to destroy regime weapons stockpiles that could fall into the hands of Islamist rebels.