The rout ended at about 5:30 a.m. When we arrived about seven hours later, the Kurdish commander was still flush with victory. He took us on a tour later of the SDF's front-line positions against scattered Islamic State remnants east of Shaddadi.See, there is ISIS and that's why the U.S. and the Kurds are there.
"Our policy is clear: Israel will defend itself against any aggression and any attempt to violate its sovereignty," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as cited by Israeli media. He also accused Iran of undertaking such an attempt on Saturday, referring to an incident involving an Iranian drone intercepted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) earlier that day.What all this really means, of course, is that Israel feels it has free license to violate other nations sovereignty routinely - as it has done countless of times in its history. When Israelis invade foreign airspace, launch unprovoked military strikes, and kill foreign nationals, they are explicitly violating that nation's sovereignty. That would ordinarily be considered an act of war. (Technically, Israel and Syria are still in a state of war and have been for decades, but that only means that only Israel can violate Syria's sovereignty and not vice versa.)
Brigadier General Tomer Bar, the Israeli Air Force's second-in-command, told journalists that its airstrikes on Syria on Saturday morning were "the biggest and most significant attack the air force has conducted against Syrian air defenses since Operation Peace for the Galilee" during the Lebanese Civil War in 1982.
The strikes were launched in response to the downing of an F-16 fighter jet earlier this morning, which was claimed by Syria. The F-16 was sent on a combat run over Syria after the Israeli military said an Iranian drone was spotted in northern Israel.
Bar said the retaliatory airstrikes inflicted "significant harm to the Syrian Air Force's defenses," which included "anti-aircraft batteries purchased in recent deals [with Russia]," along with Iranian targets.
"As a member of NATO, obviously Turkey has close liaison with the United States, Britain, France, etc, providing them all kinds of information. A NATO member, that means by extension NATO itself, is involved in financing, supporting, arming, facilitating the transfer, or entry, of these terrorists into Syria."
Miller previously dragged the government through the courts to establish that it could not implement the British public's vote to Leave the European Union without a second authorising vote in the Remainer-dominated Houses of Parliament. She also used Best for Britain to encourage tactical voting for parliamentary candidates with an "open mind" on Brexit during the 2017 snap election.Further reading:
She had denied she wanted to actually reverse the referendum result, but leaked details of a national advertising campaign which will launch this month drops this pretence, with its explicit goal being to "wake the country up and assert that Brexit is not a done deal. That it's not too late to stop Brexit."
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