Yesterday’s Israeli attack on Syria has resulted in the shoot-down of a Russian surveillance plane, perhaps inadvertently by the Syrians. The attack came on the same day as a Russian/Turk agreement on deconfliction in Idlib. Are these related? Will matters escalate
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