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Israel strikes Syria, allegedly to stop attacks on Druze minority

ISRAEL carried out an attack in Syria today, targeting what it described as an extremist group preparing assaults on the Druze minority.

The strike, reportedly by a drone, hit the town of Sahnaya, south of Damascus, following an outbreak of violence the day before in Jaramana, a predominantly Druze region, that reportedly left more than a dozen people dead.

It was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes in Syria, where Israel says the Sunni Islamists who seized power in December pose a rising threat at its border.

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