Saturday, December 02, 2017

Rumors of War - Doomed Damascus

Syria: Israeli missiles hit military base near Damascas - UPI.com
UPI reports: "Israeli missiles struck a military base near Damascus early Saturday morning, Syrian state television said. An Iranian military base was struck around 12:30 a.m. near the city of Al-Kiswa, about eight miles southwest of the capital [...] heavy explosions were heard in the area and electricity was cut off throughout Damascus. The attack killed and wounded a number of Iranian soldiers, according to Al Qoraish, an Arab newspaper in London. Sources told Al Jazeera that Israel coordinated the strikes to target military sites and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. [...] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that it would not allow Iran to establish any military presence in Syria."

Comment: Tensions in the Middle East are growing on a daily basis, it will be interesting to see how this unfolds. We know that Netanyahu went to Moscow to tell Putin that Israel will not accept Iranian troops permanently based in Syria and as that was weeks ago it appears that we can now assume Putin did nothing to change the situation, so Israel is starting to deal with it in their own way. A skirmish in which Russian and Iranian troops get bloodied but not defeated may go a long way toward explaining why the Gog Alliance is spoiling for a fight in the future.

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