国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Israeli-Syrian confrontation faces possible escalation into full-fledged war_时事

国际英语资讯:Spotlight: Israeli-Syrian confrontation faces possible escalation into full-fledged war

Later, the Israelis launched a series of missiles strikes on Syrian military positions, and said that it had targeted Iranian military bases in the country.

A Syrian military statement, however, said that most of the Israeli missiles were destroyed before hitting their targets, adding that a radar station was hit as well as air defenses battalions, stressing readiness to respond to any "aggression."

For their side, the Israeli army said that the overnight Israeli airstrikes on Syria have set back Iran's military capabilities there by "many months."

Israel's military said its air force struck "dozens" of military targets belonging to the Iranian al-Quds forces in Syria overnight between Wednesday and Thursday.

Also, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman Friday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to expel Iranian forces from Syria.

"I will take this opportunity to send a message to Assad: Get rid of the Iranians ... get rid of the Quds Force," Lieberman said during a tour in the town of Katzrin in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Maher Ihsan, a Syrian political expert, told Xinhua that Israel has received a strong message that its missiles and warplanes will not only be responded with air defenses, but the attacks will be retaliated as it recently happened in Qunaitera, where the response to the attacks came almost instantly and targeted Israeli military positions in the Golan Heights.