Fox News paused their live coverage to announce the breaking news that Israel has targeted Syria's military headquarters in Damascus after Marco Rubio expressed he was 'very concerned' over the violen

A Syrian military official said correspondence with the US had led Damascus to believe it could deploy forces to Sweida without Israel confronting them.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it looked like a "misunderstanding" after Israel struck Syria's defense ministry.

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"It's complicated, obviously, these are historic, long-time rivalries between groups in the southwest of Syria. Bedouins, the Druze community, and it led to an unfortunate situation and a misunderstanding, it looks like, between the Israeli side and the Syrian side."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was an agreement to restore calm in Syria by late Wednesday, as he blamed misunderstandings over violence that included Israeli strikes on its neighbor's capital.

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