Already roiling from civil wars in Syria and Yemen, in recent months the region has seen Israel and Iran increasingly warn of an impending conflict. It would be the first time, if confirmed, that Iran has fired rockets directly at Israeli forces in a conflict that for years has been fought through proxies, such as the Lebanese group Hezbollah. The occupied Golan Heights has been on high alert since Trump announced he would withdraw from the Iran deal. Tensions between Iran and Israel rose in February when Israel said it had shot down an Iranian drone in its airspace. Since then, Syria and Iran have not retaliated to what they claimed were multiple Israeli attacks, although Israel’s intelligence community had braced itself for a response.

Source: The Guardian May 10, 2018 09:06 UTC