THE crisis in the Middle East worsened yesterday as Israel launched its first attack inside Syria for more than 20 years.
Last night, the UN Security Council met in an emergency session, with Syria calling for condemnation of the attack.
Israel launched an air raid on what it said was a terrorist training camp only 14 miles from the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The raid was in reply to a suicide bombing in the seaside town of Haifa which destroyed a restaurant and killed 19 Israelis - one of the deadliest bombings in the past three years.
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