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Israel bombs Syrian airbase in first strikes in five months

Business Day · 18 August 2026 at 16:33

Israel bombs Syrian airbase in first strikes in five months

Israel bombed an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, Syrian state media said, carrying out what appeared to be its first strike on Syrian government assets since March and drawing criticism from a US envoy who called it an “unnecessary escalation”

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