World update: March 2 2020

Stories from Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and more

MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA

The Israeli military says it struck a “vehicle” involved in what it called “an attempted sniper attack” in the Golan on Monday. There’s been no word on casualties.

In Idlib, meanwhile, all those Turkish attacks on the Syrian military over the weekend don’t seem to have amounted to very much on the ground, because pro-government forces hav…