The US is flying its spy drones over Syria to monitor the government’s crackdown on its opponents, according to NBC News, which cited unnamed US defense officials as saying “a good number” of the unmanned military and intelligence planes were operating in Syrian skies.

Those officials told NBC correspondent Jim Miklaszewski that the drones are not collecting information to be used in future military intervention. “Rather, the Obama administration hopes to use the overhead visual evidence and intercepts of Syrian government and military communications in an effort to make the case for a widespread international response.”

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.