Israel has confirmed that they launched an airstrike targeting a shipments of advanced missiles allegedly bound for militants from Hezbollah.
If the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on the Syrian people it would be a serious breach of the Geneva Protocol, but US policy on such weapons has been so inconsistent and politicised that the United States is in no position to take leadership in response.
The alliance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and the western powers has in its sights the taking out of Syria as a key ally of Iran, and with it Hezbollah in Lebanon
The reality is that opposition militias and the official army have reached a military stalemate – one step forward and one step back as progress on one front is checked by loss and retreat on another.
