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More than a dozen drones attacked Russia's military bases along the western coast of Syria over the weekend, an assault that Moscow said it discovered to have foreign fingerprints.Further reading:
The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that unknown militants used 10 sophisticated, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to target the Hmeymim air base located near the Syrian city of Latakia and three more against the naval facility in Tartus. The aircraft was reportedly defeated before inflicting any casualties or damage, but when Russian military experts examined the remote-controlled devices they were said to have used technology that could only have been supplied from one of a limited number of countries. [...]
While the Russian Defense Ministry did not specify which country may have supplied the technology or devices used in last weekend's drone attack, Russia has routinely accused the U.S. of offering support to jihadis such as the Islamic State militant group and other organizations still fighting to overthrow Assad despite him having recaptured most of the country with support from Russia and Iran.
Comment: Incredible, isn't it, how Israel has done this over a hundred times and yet the penny hasn't dropped for many that this is has been a 7-year-long war by Western states against Syria.
Israel's incessant attacks on Syria have many wondering why Syria doesn't retaliate. It has (though purely defensively), and has probably been far more successful at it than anyone is letting on:
David and Goliath: Did Soviet-era Syrian S-200 missile system take out brand new Israeli F-35?