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Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Russia to help UN peacekeepers patrol Israel-Syria border
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Russian military says its forces in Syria would help UN peacekeepers fully restore their patrols along the frontier between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights.
Lt. Gen. Sergei Kuralenko tells reporters that Russian military police have set up four checkpoints in the area and plan to bring their number to eight.
He says the Russian military would secure the area and help clear mines left by jihadists to allow the peacekeepers to resume their operations.
The UN peacekeeping force known as UNDOF first deployed along the frontier in 1974 to separate Syrian and Israeli forces after Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Six Day War, but was halted on the Syrian side of the border in 2014 amid the violence in the country’s civil war.
— AP
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