Russian planes flying over US bases in Syria may be sharing intel, top general says

U.S. and NATO officials have said technology seized on the battlefields of Ukraine is being sent to Iran and reversed-engineered for use in the Middle East, CNN reported in March.

“Russia isn’t just an acute threat in Europe,” said Jonathan Lord, senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank. “Russia’s presence in Syria has enabled Assad’s worst atrocities, put U.S. forces engaging in the (anti-ISIS) campaign at risk, and potentially, in coordination with Iran, will hold U.S. forces and Israel at even greater risk.”

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