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Israel is exploiting the vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian clashes and a weak state

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par Rob Geist Pinfold, Lecturer in International Security, King's College London

Several days of bitter sectarian fighting in the south of Syria has brought the fledgling government in Damascus dangerously close to direct conflict with Israel, after Israeli warplanes launched strikes against government buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on July 16.

The United Nations and a number of countries condemned the attacks, which the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, said were “escalatory airstrikes”. Yet…

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