Israel and Iran Draw Battle Lines in Syria and Lebanon
A confrontation escalated along the Syrian-Israeli front the morning of February 10, opening a new destabilizing chapter to the Syrian war. A Syrian anti-aircraft battery downed an Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft that had penetrated Syrian airspace, seriously wounding the pilot. The incident immediately sparked Israeli air attacks on Syrian and Iranian rocket platforms. On February 7, Syrian state television released a statement from the Syrian armed forces regarding Israeli rocket shelling on regime-held positions in the country’s ...
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