Israel, Russia to cooperate on pullout of foreign forces from Syria: Netanyahu

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today said his country and Russia are to form a joint team to examine the withdrawal of foreign forces from Syria. Quoting his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow, Netanyahu told his cabinet that he made it unequivocally clear that Israel will not allow the military entrenchment of Iran in Syria. 

 



 

Israel is seeking the removal of Iranian forces and has vowed to keep its main enemy from entrenching itself militarily in the neighbouring country. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian and Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah targets and has established a hotline to avoid accidental clashes with Russia.