Israel is secretly coordinating with the US on many strikes against Syria. The Wall Street Journal made this claim on Thursday, citing current and former US officials.
According to the newspaper, "for several years, many Israeli operations have been coordinated with and approved by senior American officials at the Pentagon and the US Central Command," whose area of operational responsibility includes the Middle East, South and Central Asia. According to the newspaper, Washington's efforts are aimed at eliminating the possibility of "the intersection of Israeli bombings with the US-led campaign against the Islamic State (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation)."
The Wall Street Journal notes that the US is primarily coordinating Israeli strikes carried out near the American military base in the border town of Al-Tanf (250 kilometers from Damascus). It is also noted that "the US does not help the Israeli military in choosing the targets". The newspaper asserts that the United States usually only approves of the attacks to be carried out, but on a number of occasions, the US military insisted on changing the Israeli plans for strikes.
At the same time, the newspaper stresses that Washington does not coordinate "all Israeli strikes" and a considerable part of them is not coordinated with the American side. In particular, the newspaper notes, Israel has not coordinated the airstrikes on Damascus International Airport with the US.
On June 10, Syrian air defense forces repelled an Israeli missile attack on the outskirts of Damascus. It later became known that the Jewish state's air force hit three targets on the territory of the capital's air harbor. AlHadath TV, broadcasting from Dubai (United Arab Emirates), said the weapons caches of the pro-Iranian armed militia Hezbollah, which fights on the side of the Syrian army, were destroyed. Shiite fighters suffered casualties, both dead and wounded.
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Based on materials from TASS