DAMASCUS/NEW YORK: An Israeli military incursion into Syria has reached about 25km southwest of Damascus, Syrian security sources said on Tuesday (Dec 10), after Israel seized a buffer zone in southern Syria
the lightning overthrow of President Bashar al-AssadA Syria n security source said Israeli troops reached Qatana, which is 10km into Syria n territory east of a demilitarised zone separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria .Israel has said it will not become involved in conflict in Syria and that its seizure of the buffer zone was a defensive move.
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors late on Monday, and diplomats said they were still in shock at how quickly Assad's"Everyone was taken by surprise, everyone, including the members of the council. So we have to wait and see and watch ... and evaluate how the situation will develop," Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters after the body met.in supporting Assad's government and helping it fight the rebels.
The civil war that began in 2011 killed hundreds of thousands, caused one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times and left cities bombed to rubble, countryside depopulated and the economy hollowed out by global sanctions. Reuters reporters saw four mini-buses arriving at the Central Bank of Syria, with employees disembarking and walking into the building for their first day of work since Assad’s fall.
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