Reuters reports: “Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey on Thursday of trying to turn the country into a Turkish protectorate.

Later on Thursday, Turkey said Israel must withdraw from Syria and stop harming stabilization efforts there.

‘Israel has become the greatest threat to regional security’ and is a ‘strategic destabilizer, causing chaos and feeding terrorism,’ the Foreign Ministry in Ankara said.

‘Therefore, in order to establish security throughout the region, Israel must first abandon its expansionist policies, withdraw from the territories it occupies, and stop undermining efforts to establish stability in Syria,’ it said…”