VIENNA - Austria may pull its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights, evacuating the UN buffer zone, its defense minister warned on Tuesday, as Syria and Israel exchanged fire across a long dormant frontline.
Vienna's warning was aimed at Britain and other allies which want to help Syrian rebels by lifting an EU arms embargo - doing so, minister Gerald Klug told Reuters, would rob Austrian troops of their neutrality in a Syrian conflict that has already seen foreign peacekeepers come under fire and some even held hostage.
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