MOSCOW- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow has urged Iran and Israel to avoid acts that could lead to a spiral of conflict.

Iranian forces in Syria launched a rocket attack on Israeli army bases in the Golan Heights early on Thursday, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli barrages against Syria since the conflict there began in 2011.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh Editing by Larry King) ((moscow.newsroom@thomsonreuters.com;))