Syrian government forces of Bashar al-Assad use Scud missiles against opposition fighters 1312121.

Defence News - Syria

"Allied intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets have detected the launch of a number of unguided, short-range ballistic missiles Scud inside Syria this week," said the NATO official.

"We do not know the details of the missiles, but trajectory and distance travelled indicate they were Scud-type missiles. The missiles were fired from inside Syria and they impacted inside Syria," he said.

The NATO official said no missile landed in Turkish territory and the military alliance had no information about casualties and damage on the ground.

United States military satellites picked up and confirmed the infrared signature of the four short-range Scud missiles, which were launched from the Damascus area into northern Syria, according to an official who declined to be named, citing the sensitivity of the matter.

The Scud SS-1 medium range ballistic missiles are battlefield support weapons designed to strike at targets such as marshalling areas, major storage dumps and airfields behind enemy lines. Warheads can be nuclear, chemical (persistent) or conventional HE.

Missile programs of Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran have been reported to use the Russian base system Scud technology to produce battlefield missiles capable of reaching up to 1,500 km in range.