Israeli troops raid Syria and kidnap two a day after bombing air base near Turkey

ISRAELI troops raided a Syrian town today, kidnapping two people. Over 100 soldiers in 15 armoured vehicles rattled into Jubata al-Khashab, a settlement in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Zone, which forms a buffer between Syrian-controlled territory and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967 but recognised as Syrian by every country except Israel, the US and lately Colombia. The cross-border attack follows Israeli shelling of Syria’s Daraa governorate and the bombing of an…