With the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad seemingly being re-accepted into the Arab world, Israel and Russia are working to remove Iran and its proxy Hezbollah from the county.
Israel has been working on the difficult task of destroying Tehran’s dreams of regional hegemony and a forward base against the Jewish State for close to a decade through its war-between-wars (MABAM) campaign with hundreds of airstrikes in Syria.
Most recently it was accused of using a surface-to-surface non-line-of-sight missile to strike Iranian targets outside Damascus in a rare daytime attack. That strike came as Russia was accused of striking some 20 opposition targets in Idlib province.
Israel does not comment on most alleged strikes, but it has been accused of carrying out strikes around the capital of Damascus as well as deep inside Syrian territory including in northern Syria near the Turkish border as well as the Al-Bukamal region near the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Russia intervened in the Syrian conflict in September 2015 on the side of Assad and Moscow is seen as the main power to speak with when Israel wants to carry out strikes in the country.
And though two players have been using a deconfliction mechanism in order to avoid any unwanted conflict, the Russians who are on the ground in Syria are not those sitting in Moscow speaking with the Israelis.
Russia has allowed Israel to maintain its freedom of operation over Syria, as long as it does not endanger their forces.
But, Moscow has recently begun reporting and condemning alleged Israeli airstrikes, with Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia saying in June that the airstrikes are “more and more frequent” and that the IAF’s airstrikes “complicate efforts to stabilize the situation in Syria and the region.”
In Russia’s opinion, Nebenzia said, “the Syrian conflict has no military solution.” READ MORE
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| Josh Toupos |
