An air strike by Israel on Syria caused an explosion so big it could be felt more than 500 miles away. Video footage shows a enormous orange blast in the distance that fills the sky, shortly before the explosion can be heard.

The massive explosion and subsequent secondary blasts suggested a large cache of stored armaments in the area.

The massive blast, along with subsequent explosions, suggests a massive stockpile of weapons may have been present at the site.

This is the dramatic moment Israel dropped a so-called ‘earthquake bomb’ on Syria, with the blast so powerful it reportedly measured on the Richter scale.

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP.   "The Israeli

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.

Israel has dropped an absolutely enormous bomb on Syria, with the subsequent explosion at a munitions depot registering a 3.0 on the Richter scale

Israeli strikes targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region overnight, a war monitor said Monday, calling them "the heaviest strikes" there in years.It called the raids "the heaviest strikes in Syria's coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012".

A huge explosion has rocked northwestern Syria following an Israeli airstrike, with video showing the moment the massive blast sent a fireball into the sky