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It was the second time in days that Israel intervened militarily in Syria amid a wave of sectarian violence there.

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Ann M. Simmons is former Moscow bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the political, social and economic intricacies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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