Syria expected Israel to launch an offensive against it around the time of the Eid el-Fitr holiday two weeks ago, sources in Damascus told a paper called al-Halij, which is published in the United Arab Emirates.
Syria took a series of large scale preventative measures as a result of the intelligence assessment, the report said.
According to the report, Russia and China were also updated and they relayed harsh warnings to Washington and Jerusalem not to attack Syria and cause a conflagration in the region.