Israel Strikes Air Base in Syria, Drawing Ire From the U.S.

BREAKING: Israel strikes a Syrian air base, according to American and Syrian officials, drawing sharp criticism from the US in the latest of a series of military interventions in Syria.

Israel just struck a Syrian air base, and Washington is not happy about it.

American and Syrian officials both confirm the strike, the latest in a string of Israeli military interventions inside Syria. What's different this time is the reaction. The criticism from the United States was sharp, and it was public. Allies usually save that kind of language for behind closed doors.

Syria is already a crowded, fragile picture, a new government finding its feet, inspectors on the ground, every neighbour watching. You can see the reality on the street here, ordinary life carrying on under all of it.

So the hardest fact tonight is this. Israel's closest ally is now openly objecting to its operations in Syria, and that gap, between Jerusalem and Washington, is the thing to watch.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

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