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The deep fear is that this war between Israel and Iran - two nations lying 2,000 km apart - will play out on the ground of all the countries in between, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Damascus
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Israel’s massive overnight barrage of strikes on Iran could be the most significant attack on the country since its devastating war with Iraq in the 1980s.
It pushes an already broiling Middle East - where slaughter has become a daily reality for so many - to the very edge of another regional bloody conflict.
