BEIRUT — Israel has conducted new airstrikes on Syria’s coast and ground raids in the country’s south, part of a recent wave of attacks that Israel says is necessary for its security and that has raised tensions with Syria’s new government.

The strikes appeared to be the latest attempt to keep weapons from the deposed Assad regime out of the hands of groups that may be hostile to Israel.

The Israeli military said Monday evening that it had targeted a weapons storage facility in Qardaha, former President Bashar Assad’s hometown. The town is a few miles from a major Russian air base by the coastal city of Latakia. There were no immediate reports of casualties, according to Syria’s state news agency, SANA.

Hours later, the Israeli military conducted ground raids into two towns in southern Syria, cutting off roads and searching military barracks before blowing up warehouses and withdrawing, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group based in Britain.

— The New York Times