Advanced fighter jets. It crashed after its two pilots ejected, said israel, amid syrian anti aircraft fire. One pilot was left severely injured. Israel said it scrambled the planes in response to this, a drone allegedly sent by Iranian Forces in syria into israeli airspace. It was destroyed. Israel then hit the site it said the drone had come from, before further strikes against what it called iranian targets in syria. Ive been warning for some time about the dangers of irans military entrenchment in syria. Iran seeks to use syrian territory to attack israel for its professed goal of destroying israel. Israel is wary about the threat across its northern border, with the syrian regime, backed by iran and its proxies, like these hezbollah fighters, back in control of much territory. Syrias conflict has drawn in her neighbours. There have been dozens of israeli air strikes in syria in recent years. In december, israel hit what it said was a newly built Iranian Military site. As recently
Wa ke tomorrow morning some of us will wake up to snow on the ground and the ground is frozen solid. No rob for the snow to settle pretty much anywhere. For the course of the day, the wintry showers will be blown further inland. Anywhere tomorrow could catch a few flakes of snow. On monday night into tuesday, that is when the snow showers start to develop across the north sea. They will start to be blown further inland and there is already an amber warning in force from the met office for eastern and central areas first thing on tuesday morning. Fightback this is bbc news our latest headlines a shift of policy on europe by labour shadow brexit secretary sir kier starmer confirms the party would keep britain in a customs union. The winter Olympic Games come to a conclusion with the closing ceremony in pyeongchang. Team gb go home with a record tally of five medals. Chinas president xijinping could serve indefinitely under changes that the communist party is proposing to the countrys con
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the.