(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - Russian air strikes in southern Syria represent a rise in the potential for inadvertent friction with Israel, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Abraham Assael, an air combat expert and CEO of the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies in Herzliya, said Thursday. International media reported that the Russian air force carried out strikes in Syria's southern Deraa province, near the Jordanian border, on Wednesday - the closest that Russian jets have come to the Israeli border.
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