READY FOR WAR: US, UK and Turkey in brutal show of force as tensions SOAR in Middle East
BRITISH, US and Turkish-allied forces have put on a brutal show of military force in Turkey as tensions in the Middle East soar after Iran directly attacked Israel for the first time.
By REBECCA PERRING
Express.co.uk
Thu, May 10, 2018
Combat helicopters, warboats and Turkish armoured vehicles smashed their targets during a daytime Efes-2018 Combined Joint Live Fire Exercise at the Seferihisar district of Izmir, Turkey.
Fears of eruption of Middle East violence which could bring the world closer to war are growing after Syria said Israel carried out an attack on a military base which was used by Iranian forces south of Damascus.
The United States on Thursday condemned Iran’s “provocative rocket attacks” from Syria and supported Israel’s right to defend itself.
In a huge display of force, military units from the US, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, UK, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Hungary, Macedonia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Romania and Slovakia attended the military drill on the border of the Middle East.
In a statement, the White House said: “The Iranian regime’s deployment into Syria of offensive rocket and missile systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable and highly dangerous development for the entire Middle East.”
America said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “bears full responsibility for the consequences of its reckless actions”.
Israeli jets have already retaliated by bombing Damascus and shelling Iranian bases in Syria in their biggest barrages against the region since 2011.
Israeli military spokesman, Lieutenant-Genral Jonathan Conricus, discussed Iranian aggression, telling reporters: “It was ordered and commanded by Qassem Soleimani and it has not achieved its purpose.”
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