Israel Asked To Conduct Airstrikes Against ISIS, Al-Qaeda Continues To Pose Threats

Fighters affiliated with Syria's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel-group, take part in a military excercise on attacking tactics with live ammunition, on the outskirts of the northwestern province of Idlib, on November 8, 2022. - The last pocket of armed opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), headed by ex-members of Syria's former Al-Qaeda franchise, is the dominant group in the area but other rebel groups are also active. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot revealed earlier this month that Israel was asked by Egypt in 2015 to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State targets.

“There aren’t many countries in the world that know how to locate targets the size of a podium and to put a missile on a target in a 1,000-kilometer radius around Israel. Our enemies saw it, the Russians saw it, the Americans saw it. The ones who know best how much the IDF works in the Middle East are the ISIS men, since they paid the price of hundreds dead and wounded, and they knew,” he stated.