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As multiple actors compete for land and leverage in northeastern Syria, the risk of country-on-country war looms ever closer.

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
Israel has admitted to losing a missile from its air defense system after it landed in Syrian territory. The item was apparently recovered by Russian reconnaissance units, before being transferred to its experts.

As the Syran Arab Army continue to move into key positions along its northern border region, the state has been able to reclaim some of its natural resources, including its Rumilan oil fields located in Hasakah province in the country’s northeast.
Syria News reports…

IMAGE: ISIS militant in Syria (2016)
Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
The reemergence of the terrorist organization “ISIS” is reported to be happening in parts of Syria, including in the former ‘rebel’ stronghold area of Daraa province, located in southwestern Syria.
In recent weeks, the province has witnessed several security incidents by unknown assailants, until finally, ISIS claimed responsibility for them.

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
The Russian METIS anti-tank system destroyed the latest Turkish military gun, the T-155 self-propelled cannon. Russian media sources published pictures of the cannon after it was completely destroyed and uprooted.

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire
Tal Abyad city in Raqqa countryside has witnessed for the second time this week – a car bomb explosion that resulted in civilian casualties and material damage.

Earlier this week, 21WIRE editor Patrick Henningsen spoke with Syria Times about President al-Assad’s recent television interview, coming at a crucial juncture in Syria’s eight-year long conflict.

Khaled Iskef
21st Century Wire

This week, Trump inserted himself into the coming UK General Election and Brexit debate when he decreed that Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage must do a formal election pact with Tory leader Boris Johnson – ostensibly to pave the way for a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal, but is this also Washington’s way of keeping a Labour government out of power? Also, will a victorious Tory government maintain the new moratorium on Fracking? And what about Trump’s “Take the oil” gambit in Syria? Is it really about oil, or are these US troops photo ops masking a deeper agenda?

As Israel continues its periodic incursions into neighboring Lebanon’s airspace, southern Lebanese resistance force Hezbollah is countering IDF provocations in a dangerous high-tech game of risk.
Earlier this month, Israel’s IDF deployed a drone supposedly to conduct “routine operations to secure the border” which was promptly brought down by Hezbollah as it entered Lebanese airspace.