Israel supplies al-Qaeda with airforce in Syria

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the Israeli military is obviously supporting terrorist groups in Syria by conducting airstrikes in the crisis-hit country, Qods News Agency reports.

“Whenever we make advances in some place, they (the Israelis) attack in order to undermine the army. It’s very clear,” Assad said in an interview with American magazine Foreign Affairs which will be published on Monday.

“That’s why some in Syria joke, ‘How can you say that al-Qaeda doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force’,” he added.

His remarks came a week after an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at the village of Quneitra in the Syrian Golan Heights bordering Lebanon where the al-Qeda-linked al-Nusra operatives are roaming.

Six members of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement that was countering the al-Nusra terrorists were killed in the attack.