With the world focused on Russia, Ukraine and the search for the Malaysian airplane, the escalating crisis on Israel’s northern border heated up Wednesday morning as the IDF launched airstrikes against several Syrian army positions a day after four Israeli soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb attack as they carried out a routine patrol along the border. Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon said that if Syria’s President Assad “continues to cooperate with terrorists who seek to harm Israel he will continue to pay a heavy price that he will regret.” The Israeli air strikes came even as fighting raged in several other parts of Syria, with sources revealing on Tuesday that rockets have recently been fired at Latakia, the Mediterranean port which is the main transit point for the Assad regime’s chemical weapons arsenal, which is slowly being transferred out of the country to be destroyed.Read More
