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_{Israel Channel 2 News reported Sunday night that army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Eisenkot secretly flew to Brussels on Thursday to meet with Gen. Curtiss Scaparrotti, head of the U.S. army’s European Command. The meeting dealt mainly with Iranian moves in the Middle East, and especially Syria.
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Iran is building a permanent military base in Syria, the BBC reported on Friday, citing "a Western intelligence source."

According to the report, the base is being built within a compound used by the Syrian military near the city of Al-Kiswa, located some 13 kilometers south of the war-torn country's capital, Damascus.
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