The Israeli military says it has attacked dozens of Iranian targets in neighbouring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the long-contested Golan Heights. — Syria shelled northern Israel from the Golan Heights between 1948 and 1967. — Syria fought in three wars against Israel in 1948, 1967 and 1973, and battled Israel when it invaded Lebanon in 1982. Israel also acknowledged this year it carried out a 2007 airstrike in eastern Syria targeting an unfinished nuclear reactor built by North Korea. — During Syria’s civil war, Israel has carried out more than 100 airstrikes in Syria, targeting suspected weapons shipments by Iran to the Lebanese Hezbollah group.

Source: National Post May 10, 2018 09:00 UTC