Israel’s warplanes struck Syria’s military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday, escalating its intervention in sectarian strife involving the Druze—a community with a foot in both countries.
The attack in the Syrian capital followed a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Syrian government tanks, military convoys and positions over the past two days of violence that began with clashes between local Druze and Bedouin populations. Israel says it is intervening in the skirmishes to protect Syrian Druze, who have strong ties to Israel’s Druze community. Is Israel acting like a world police ?
