Syria, US say Israel struck military air base in Idlib province

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Despite tensions between the neighbours, Israel and Syria's new authorities have held several rounds of direct talks and have agreed to establish an intelligence-sharing mechanism.
49% : It has also sent troops into a United Nations-patrolled buffer zone that had separated Israeli and Syrian forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan since 1974, and carries out regular incursions deeper inside Syrian territory.
49% : A billboard for Netanyahu's Likud party ahead of October elections in Israel pictured the Turkish leader alongside figures including Naim Qassem, head of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.
46% : But last week Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that his country planned to keep troops in Syria.
43% : " Israel captured most of the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and later annexed the areas under its control, in a move not recognised by most of the international community.
42% : Israel has not claimed the attack, but US envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on X that "the confirmed Israeli airstrikes" on the Abu Duhur air base in Idlib province "constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability".
38% : Israel has launched hundreds of strikes on Syria since the December 2024 toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad by Islamist forces whom it considers jihadists.
32% : A member of Syrian government forces stands guard at the Abu Duhur military air base area in Idlib province in 2018 Syria and the United States accused Israel of attacking a disused military air base in Syria's northwest on Tuesday, as a monitor said the strikes followed a Turkish delegation's inspection of the site.
32% : UN chief Antonio Guterres on a visit to Damascus last month said that "violations of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity are unacceptable and must cease," adding that "the Golan Heights are Syrian territory.
26% : But ties between Israel and Turkey have come under increasing strain in recent years following Israel's war in Gaza and over Israeli military action in Syria. - 'Unjustified' - The relationship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also become increasingly poisoned.
26% : It urged the international community and the United Nations Security Council to "take a firm position against Israel's repeated violations of Syrian sovereignty".

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