An Unlikely Alliance in Syria Comes Under Strain
A week after the Syrian military mistakenly shot down a Russian plane, Moscow said Israel was ultimately to blame.
Russia’s unlikely alliance with Israel in Syria is in peril. Today, Moscow that it would supply Syria with a sophisticated S-300 air-defense system over explicit Israeli reservations. The announcement comes Syria shot down a Russian Ilyushin-20 over the Mediterranean, killing 15 Russian-military personnel. from which weapons-manufacturing systems were about to be transferred to Hezbollah, the Shiite militia group, at Iran’s behest; Russia, for its part, blamed the
