Syrian President Bashar Assad said Israel’s airstrike in Syrian territory escalated Middle East tensions. “This is an attempt by the Israeli government to extract itself from its big crisis” with the Palestinians “by trying to terrorize Syria and drag it and the region into other wars,” Assad told the Al-Hayat newspaper, in an interview published on Tuesday.
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