Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Middle East war has again demonstrated the willingness of belligerents to use illegal weapons or illegal applications of weapons when expedient. The Syrians fired a large number of rockets at civilian settlements in the Galilee area of Israel. Israel responded with air attacks using anti-personnel fragmentation bombs against Damascus. The Israelis had taken the precaution of building underground shelters. The Syrians suffered extensive civilian casualties because they...
...along the Golan Heights, was left to work out his own arrangements. The Israelis anxiously sought some kind of stand-down that would allow them to recover an estimated 120 soldiers and pilots held by Syria. By week's end, however, no prisoner agreement had been reached with Damascus...
...flew from capital to capital last week in a frenzied series of conferences and consultations that left jet contrails all across the Mediterranean sky was Jordan's King Hussein, who made swift visits to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dropped into Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait and Riyadh in an effort to arrange an Arab summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi warned of a return to war and urged the defeat of Israel; his cries were echoed by Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr...
Before the conflict, Moscow spurred Cairo and Damascus to reorganize their armies and improve officer training. Although the Egyptians expelled some 17,000 Soviet technicians and advisers in July 1972, more than 1,000 were in Egypt when the war erupted. War supplies continued to arrive with Syria receiving more than 60% of its 300 or so combat aircraft since January of this year. The Soviets tutored Egypt in the tactics that enabled its army to quickly send troops across the Suez Canal...
...Israelis managed in scarcely more than two weeks to reverse the tide of battle and push the battlefronts into Syria and Egypt. At week's end the Israelis claimed that they had captured most of the city of Suez; their armies had fought to within 30 miles of Damascus and about 45 miles of Cairo...