Israel Strikes Syria, Hits Back At US Envoy Over Air Base Criticism In Türkiye

DAMASCUS: Israel carried out a fresh strike in Syria on Saturday and hit back at US envoy Tom Barrack for criticising an earlier attack on an air base in the northwest, which Israel has accused Turkiye of seeking to use. US envoy for Syria Tom Barrack on Tuesday slammed Israel's attack on the disused military air base that day as an "unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability". On Friday, in an interview with influencer Mario Nawfal, Barrack said the strike may have been intended to provoke a conflict with Turkiye, prompting Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz to respond on Saturday, calling the remarks "full of inaccuracies". Katz wrote on X that Israel had passed on "intelligence information to the authorised parties in the United States" before the strike on Tuesday.