Limpahan Syria: Austria menarik diri dari PBB misi Golan memerangi semakin hebat

Limpahan Syria: Austria menarik diri dari PBB misi Golan memerangi semakin hebat. Austria telah mengumumkan bahawa ia akan menarik balik tentera pengaman dari kuasa pemantauan PBB di Golan Heights, semakin teruk selepas pertempuran antara tentera kerajaan Syria dan pemberontak menghantar askar bergegas ke kubu untuk perlindungan.

Austria merupakan kira-kira 1,000-kuat 380 tenaga PBB memerhatikan gencatan senjata berusia dekad antara Syria dan Israel, dan pemergian mereka akan berurusan satu tamparan kepada misi. Pengumuman ini datangbeberapa jam selepas pemberontak Syria merampas sempadan PBB dikendalikan menyeberangi menghubungkan Syria dan Israel.

Sumber keselamatan Israel kemudian melaporkan tentera Syria telah mengambil semula selepas pertempuran berat. Pegawai Austria dimaklumkan Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon keputusan mereka untuk menarik balik selepas hampir 4 dekad tugas pengaman di Golan.

Syrian spillover: Austria withdraws from UN Golan mission as fighting intensifies. Austria has announced that it will withdraw its peacekeepers from the UN monitoring force on the Golan Heights, after worsening fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels sent its soldiers scurrying into bunkers for cover.

Austrians account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong UN force observing a decades-old ceasefire between Syria and Israel, and their departure will deal a blow to the mission. The announcement came hours after Syrian rebels seized a UN-manned border crossing linking Syria and Israel.

Israeli security sources later reported Syrian troops had retaken it after heavy fighting. Austrian officials informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of their decision to withdraw after nearly four decades of peacekeeping duty on the Golan.