SYRIAN TROOPS MASSING ON ISRAELI BORDER

Syria Bolstering Forces, Troops Moving Closer to Border - Amos Harel, Aluf Benn and Ze'ev Schiff (Ha'aretz)
The Syrian armed forces are being strengthened in an unprecedented way with the help of generous funding from Iran and its troops are moving closer to the border with Israel. The main emphasis of the efforts has been missiles and long-range rockets. Lately, the Syrians test-fired a Scud-D surface-to-surface missile with a 400-km. range that covers most of Israel. Damascus is close to concluding a deal with Russia to procure thousands of advanced anti-tank missiles.