UN officials are formally condemning the incursion earlier this week of three Syrian tanks into the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates Israel and Syria. The incident – which constituted a breach of the 1974 disengagement agreement between the two countries – highlighted the degree to which the chaos of Syria’s civil war, having spread throughout the country and literally reached the palace of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, now threatens to spill beyond Syria’s borders.

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