Envoy says Israel did not give the US notice before strikes on Syrian base

US official Tom Barrack has criticised Israel for failing to give his country adequate warning, a claim Tel Aviv denies.Published On 22 Aug 202622 Aug 2026Tom Barrack, the United States ambassador to Turkiye and its special envoy to Syria, has accused Israel of offering no warning before carrying out military strikes in Syria this week, though Israeli officials insisted it did.Barrack, who called the Israeli strikes an “unnecessary escalation”, said in an interview on Friday that the attacks on the Abu Duhur military base in northern Syria may have been aimed at “baiting the Turks”, who have substantial influence in the region.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US pressure on Israel needed for peace in Syrialist 2 of 3Israel attacks airbase in Syria’s Idlib as US, Turkiye slam ‘escalation’list 3 of 3Rubio says Trump envoy Barrack to step down from Syria postend of listIsraeli officials, who have warned Turkiye against supplementing its military presence in Syria, angrily denounced the comments from Barrack.Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a social media post on Saturday that Israel had shared “intelligence information to the authorised parties in the United S...