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Israel hits Syria artillery position after mortar hits Golan
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli army attacks a Syrian artillery position after a mortar shell strikes near the border on the northern Golan Heights, in an apparent case of spillover fighting from Syria’s civil war, the army says.The army targeted an artillery cannon belonging to Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad’s military, which was in the same area of the Syrian Golan Heights from which the mortar shell was fired. "The IDF sees the Syrian regime as responsible for every action in its territory and will not tolerate violations of the illusory sovereignty of the State of Israel and the security of its citizens," the army says in a statement.
Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's’s army has been seeking in recent weeks to create a logistical disconnect between areas in his war-torn country controlled by the rebels near the border with Israel in a possible preparatory move to stage a major maneuver to regain control of the Syrian Golan Heights. Three months ago, Assad’s army scored a victory with the capture of the Syrian Hermon and regained control over the Syrian town of Beit Jann by, inter alia, dropping explosives from helicopters flying a few kilometers from the Israeli border. Around 80 percent of the territory adjacent to the Israeli border is controlled by a combination of fighters from various Syrian rebel groups and the Free Syria Army, with ISIS being pushed to the the southern end of the Hermon. Assad controls the northern Hermon. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-24 |
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