SYRIA VS. ISRAEL

Telegraph: Syria threatens to attack Golan settlers if Israel strikes again

Syria has threatened to attack Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights if Tel Aviv launches another assault on its territory.

In a move that will raise tension after Israel struck a suspected terrorist training camp near Damascus earlier this month, Farouk Sharaa, Syria's foreign minister, warned that further "aggression" would prompt Syria to use "other cards".

Syrian foreign minister Farouk Sharaa
Mr Sharaa's threat, in an interview with The Telegraph, raises - for the first time since the Israeli raid - the prospect of Syria attacking the area seized from it by Israel in 1967.

The foreign minister also claimed that Syria was unable to stop resistance fighters pouring across the border into Iraq to attack American troops. "They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said.