Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz warned Monday, April 22, that tribal and ethnic warfare on the scale of Afghanistan two decades ago awaited Syria. DEBKAfile: Two heavily armed Hizballah combat brigades are fighting for Bashar Assad south of Homs. As defense minister Moshe Yaalon vowed action against the transfer of sophisticated weapons to Hizballah, those brigades collected arms from Syrian arsenals and Iranian and Russian airlifts. Air corridors over Jordan presage potential US, Jordanian and Israeli action against Syria.