Israeli air force carries out air strike on Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights seeking to prevent Israel's Al-Qaeda allies from being overrun by a Syrian counter attack.

Despite air support from the Israeli air force, it seems that the Al-Qaeda led Jihadi offensive against Syrian army positions on the Golan Heights has been a failure, with the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis failing to make significant gains against the Syrian troops in the area.

The result was that the Syrian army itself decided to launch a counter offensive last night, apparently with the intention of retaking ground that the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis had captured in the Golan Heights earlier in the war.

The Syrian army counter offensive was however stopped in its tracks by an Israeli air force air strike. Though the Israelis continue to claim that this was in response to a single mortar shell falling on their territory, this excuse has now worn so thin that I doubt any serious reporter of the Syrian war takes it seriously.

In other words the Israeli air force is now providing air to ground support for Al-Qaeda, an organization labelled by the US and the UN a terrorist group, which the US accuses of carrying out the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which has itself taken credit for those attacks, and which has been the subject of what the George W. Bush administration called the "War on Terror".