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Israel was about to get 'a lot more violent' with Syria after losing an F-16 — and then Putin stepped inBen BrimelowReuters Israel says it destroyed an Iranian drone in Israeli airspace launched from an air base in Syria on Saturday. Israel retaliated by destroying the drone's command center but lost one of its F-16 jets over Israeli airspace when it was returning from the mission, prompting Israel to strike at Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria. Ronen Bergman writes in a New York Times op-ed article that Israel had planned further strikes against Iranian and Syrian targets but that Russian President Vladimir Putin prevented an all-out attack by calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly.A simmering conflict between Israel and Iran in Syria could have erupted into another regional war were it not for the intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an Israeli investigative journalist. Read more at: http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-syria-russia-putin-f-16-iran-2018-2
