Daily Memo: Israel-Syria Talks, North Korean Deployment

Tensions were high last week following Israel's bombing of a Syrian air base.

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De-escalation. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and the director of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, Roman Gofman, met on Sunday, Axios reported. This comes nearly a week after Israel launched strikes on an air base in Syria where Israel suspected Turkey was planning to deploy troops. Support from Pyongyang. North Korea has sent an additional 8,500 […]

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