Children sit together at a damaged site at a rebel-held area in Deraa, Syria September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir
HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - The Israeli intelligence minister said on Monday that President Bashar al-Assad was ready to permit Iran to set up military bases in Syria that would pose a long-term threat to neighbouring Israel.
While formally neutral on the six-year-old Syrian civil war, Israel worries that Assad's recent gains have given his Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah allies a foothold on its northern front.
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