Russia Begins Operations in Syria: End Game for the US Empire?

Israel has beefed up its troop presence along the borders with Lebanon and Syria since Friday's strikes on Syria.

Israeli drone crashes in Lebanon amid tensions with Syria
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Israeli soldiers gather near Moshav Sde Eliezer, in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon on July 26, 2020. (AFP)

Israel said a military drone crashed in southern Lebanon on Sunday as regional tensions ran high, days after a series of cross-border exchanges between Israel and Syria and the killing of a Hezbollah militant in an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital.

The Israeli military issued the statement shortly after Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with army brass near the country’s northern frontier. The military said the drone went down over Lebanese territory “during operational activities” along the border. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes and drones flew over southern Lebanon throughout Sunday.

Israel has beefed up its troop presence along the borders with Lebanon and Syria since Friday's strikes on Syrian army positions. Israel says those strikes were in response to unspecified munitions fired on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The exchanges came after Monday's air raid on Damascus — believed to have been carried out by Israel — that killed five foreign fighters, including a member of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.

Gantz said in a statement that Israel “has no interests in Syria or Lebanon, aside from security interests, and we will continue to protect them. “We are not seeking unnecessary escalation, but if we are tested — we have high operative capacity, which I hope we will not need to put to use,” Gantz said.

Israel and Hezbollah fought to a draw in a month-long war in Lebanon in 2006. Hezbollah has previously vowed to respond to the killing of its forces in Syria.

Earlier Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country was “acting according to our consistent policy of not allowing Iran to entrench itself militarily on our northern border." He said Lebanon and Syria “bear responsibility for any attack against Israel emanating from their territories.”

Israel has long considered Iran a regional nemesis because of its nuclear program — which Iran insists is for peaceful purposes only — as well as Iran's military presence in Syria supporting President Bashar Assad, and its backing of armed groups like Hezbollah.

Israel has carried out scores of airstrikes in Syria in recent years targeting Iranian forces there, and has targeted what Israel says are weapons shipments bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The Israeli military rarely comments on these strikes.

Deputy Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem told the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen TV station that the group received a message through the United Nations representative in Lebanon after last week’s airstrike near the Syrian capital in which the Hezbollah operative was killed.
“We did not give an answer and we will not reveal the content of the message,” Kassim said, without directly stating the message was from Israel. He declined to comment on whether Hezbollah is planning to carry out an attack in retaliation for the death of its operative in Syria last week.

Kassim said he does not expect war with Israel in the coming months, but added that if Israel starts a war, Hezbollah is ready to fight back
 
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Four passengers on an Iranian airline were injured over Syria, after the pilot quickly reduced the altitude to avoid the collision with a US F-15 fighter jet, but the US Central Command said that its F-15 was at a 'safe distance'.
Российские С-400 не дали американцам сбить пассажирский самолёт
2020-07-27

Russian S-400 did not allow the Americans to shoot down a passenger plane
2020-07-27
Thanks to the Russian S-400, a passenger airliner was saved.

Russian s-400 air defense systems were able to correctly identify enemy aircraft that entered the zone of destruction of Syrian air defense systems under the cover of a civilian passenger airliner. American pilots did not respond to requests and their aircraft Syrian air defense systems were already going to release missiles, however, the Russian "Triumphs", deployed several hundred kilometers away, managed to identify a passenger airliner and two American military aircraft, and only this fact saved dozens of citizens from imminent death.

"Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon "Ali" Abdul-Karim told the Iranian TV channel al-Alam on Saturday that the US tried to "persuade" the Syrian air defense system to shoot down an Iranian airliner over the province of HOMS last Thursday, July 23. "This game failed to confuse the Syrian defense and radar systems; moreover, this dirty and dangerous game gave negative results to its criminals," Abdul-Karim said in his accusation. "Until now, it was known that the fighters belonged to the United States, but this does not matter, since they have the same status," he added. Abdul-Karim did not provide further details about his statement. The Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Dr Bashar al-Jaafari, condemned the US interception of an Iranian airliner on Saturday, calling it a gross violation of Syrian sovereignty and a deliberate attempt to shoot down the plane," al - Masdar News reports.

In fact, the us military tried to pull off a trick similar to the one in which the Russian military plane was shot down by Syrian S-200 , but thanks to the control of the air situation by the Russian military, tragic consequences were avoided.

Experts believe that such situations in the future could be avoided if the airspace over Syria was closed to US aircraft, in particular, the warning of immediate attacks in case of violation of the airspace of the Arab Republic, would not allow the Americans to invade the territory of this country under any pretext.

Российские С-400 не дали американцам сбить пассажирский самолёт
 
Israel has beefed up its troop presence along the borders with Lebanon and Syria since Friday's strikes on Syria.

Israeli drone crashes in Lebanon amid tensions with Syria
2204031-114018165.jpg

Israeli soldiers gather near Moshav Sde Eliezer, in northern Israel along the border with Lebanon on July 26, 2020. (AFP)

Israel said a military drone crashed in southern Lebanon on Sunday as regional tensions ran high, days after a series of cross-border exchanges between Israel and Syria and the killing of a Hezbollah militant in an Israeli airstrike near the Syrian capital.

The Israeli drone that crashed in Lebanon was shot down by an electronic warfare system from Syria.
 
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A new convoy of 65 vehicles loaded with military and logistical equipment headed to Hasaka - Six Israeli warplanes and two unmanned aerial vehicles were spotted near the Syrian border.

The US has sent 25 trucks loaded with a military and logistical equipment to Hasaka - The Syrian military shot down an Israeli spy balloon that entered the Damascus Governorate from the occupied Golan Heights.
 
Турция пригрозила российским военнослужащим смертью в Сирии - Россия мгновенно подняла в воздух боевую авиацию
2020-07-29

Turkey threatened Russian military personnel with death in Syria - Russia immediately raised combat aircraft in the air
2020-07-29
Turkey disrupted a patrol mission in Syria's Idlib – Russia immediately raised combat and reconnaissance aircraft to the sky.

According to journalists of the Russian news outlet Russkaya Vesna, another Russian-Turkish joint patrol of Idlib province was disrupted by Ankara, which flatly refused to allow a Russian military patrol to enter the designated de-escalation zone, threatening the death of Russian servicemen.

"It has just become known that the Russian-Turkish patrol of the M4 highway was unexpectedly disrupted in Syria today. the Official reason was that representatives of the Turkish security Agency told the command of the Russian forces in the SAR that they were not able to fully ensure security at the Assembly point in the al-Hawr district in Idlib province. Probably, the situation with Turkey's inability to secure the Russian military in its area of responsibility is much more complicated. Either the Turkish leadership is unable to force the controlled NDF to stop terrorist activities in this area, or Turkey is trying to hide something. Perhaps Pro-Turkish militants are pulling heavy weapons to the positions of the Syrian army and trying to avoid further charges of shelling, which will be brought against Turkey, "the Telegram channel of the publication"Russian spring "said.

According to the monitoring resource "Sentry Syria", in the period from 8 to 12 hours local time, in the sky over the southern part of Idlib, at least 20 reconnaissance and combat aircraft of the Russian air force and the Syrian air force were seen, which indicates a certain serious situation, however, there are no official comments on this matter from Russian military representatives yet, which raises a lot of questions about whether the terrorists will try to carry out an attack against the Syrian military and launch a powerful offensive.

Турция пригрозила российским военнослужащим смертью в Сирии - Россия мгновенно подняла в воздух боевую авиацию
 
An unknown electronic warfare system deployed in Syria has forced Israeli Iron Dome to shoot down its own anti-aircraft missiles.
Looks like an old hoary chestnut:
16 Nov 2019

Both rather vague and far-fetched.
 
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