{"id":589873,"date":"2026-08-19T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:44:10","slug":"whats-behind-israels-latest-attack-on-syria-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/589873\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind Israel\u2019s latest attack on Syria? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US envoy warns Israel\u2019s strike could have sparked direct confrontation with Turkish forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An Israeli attack on a Syrian airbase has been widely condemned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The United States envoy warns the incident could have caused a direct confrontation with Turkish forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So why did Israel attack the base? And what are the implications?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Presenter: Anna Burns-Francis<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Murat Yesiltas \u2013 Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) think tank<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Haid Haid \u2013 Consulting fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Michael Mulroy \u2013 Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East<\/p>\n<p>Published On 19 Aug 202619 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US envoy warns Israel\u2019s strike could have sparked direct confrontation with Turkish forces. An Israeli attack on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,47,43,9599,4713,4055],"class_list":["post-589873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-show-types","tag-syria","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}