Document: Syria Orchestrated Border Battles with Israel

Tony Badran, a Syria specialist for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said he “didn’t need the document” to know that the Syrian government was behind the clashes.

“Just like busing jihadis from the airport and downtown Damascus to the Iraqi border was not a spontaneous event that happened without the regime’s knowledge and/or coordination, having buses move through a restricted military area was also not a spontaneous event,” he said.

The clashes last month turned deadly when Israeli forces fired on infiltrators. Syrian state television claimed that 13 were killed.

“There’s a media blackout on Syrian television on the domestic repression, but somehow they had cameras ready at the border,” Mr. Badran said.