Israeli tanks were reportedly on the outskirts of Damascus early on Tuesday, as Israel launched airstrikes across the country that are being called “the heaviest in the history of Syria.”
The escalating Israeli attack on the country comes after President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia in the early hours of Sunday as US- and Turkish-backed insurgents took the capital Damascus.
Benjamin Netanyahu immediately claimed credit for the fall of Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades.
The Israeli prime minister’s comments came as he visited the Israeli-occupied sector of Syria’s Golan Heights on Sunday morning. …more
