Israeli strikes hit targets in downtown Damascus
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6YPNN)
Israeli airstrikes hit a military compound and targets near the Syrian presidential palace this morning. Israeli officials called it an effort to protect Syria's minority Druze community. Ruth Michaelson, an Istanbul-based journalist, tells The World's Host Marco Werman that the strikes have created a crisis for Syria's transitional government, which had pledged to support the rights of ethnic and religious minorities.