Slightly off topic, but what ADS and aircraft does Syria possess currently?

I only ask b/c of the following report, and while I have no doubt that Israel will beat Syria into next week, I’m wondering what are Syria’s AF’s capabilities?
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Date Posted: 02-Dec-2003

FOREIGN REPORT – DECEMBER 04, 2003

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Syria’s fear
THE ISRAELI military intelligence service, Aman, has informed the government that the Syrian leader, President Bashar Al-Assad, has instructed his army to get ready for an Israeli military attack. He has also called for a resumption of peace talks with Israel. But Israel, under the leadership of the hardline expansionist, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, does not take Assad’s call for a resumption of negotiations seriously, especially when Sharon apparently has no intentions whatsoever of withdrawing from the Golan heights, which has artillery batteries within firing range of Damascus, the Syrian capital.

In open provocation of Syria, Israel has been conducting air force flights over Syrian airfields, barracks and other military interests, and has attacked ‘terrorist’ targets within Syrian territory. On 5 October, Israeli F-16 jets bombed an empty Palestinian training base near Damascus. It was the first assault on Syrian soil in 30 years and the Syrians were stunned, failed to retaliate and were mocked throughout the Arab world for letting the Israelis humiliate them. In October, eight Israeli F-15’s crossed the international border with Lebanon, flew over Beirut and all the way over the 35,000 Syrian troops stationed in northern Lebanon. In response to Israel’s sabre rattling, on 26 October Syria’s foreign minister, Farouk al-Shara, warned that “Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights could be attacked if Israel launched another attack on its territory”.

“For several weeks now, Israel has been provoking and humiliating Damascus,” wrote Brigadier-General Shlomo Gazit, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot. “Whoever flies at supersonic speed over the Syrian presidential palace humiliates the sovereign and proud leader of a neighbouring country. Whoever boasts in public of doing so adds insult to injury.”

Gazit was referring to what the Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, said in Washington recently after his Pentagon meetings – that Israeli jets flew over Assad’s palace as a warning to the president to stop harbouring Palestinian extremist groups in Damascus. “It seems that the Syrian president didn’t get the message and we may need to give him another one,” said Mofaz.

Window of opportunity

An Israeli military intelligence report indicates that Syria is convinced that Sharon is determined to attack Syria for domestic political reasons, and that he believes he has backing from the pro-Israeli Bush administration. According to a well placed source, Sharon has been convinced by the hawkish head of Mossad, Meir Dagan, that Israel should strike Syria. “Sharon was convinced that a narrow window of opportunity has opened to allow Israel to destroy the Syrian army,” said the source. The Israelis believe the ‘window of opportunity’ is the willingness of the Bush administration to let Israel ‘fight terrorism’, even if it means attacking Syria , for a limited period of time. After that, the window will be closed.

Last month, both houses of US Congress passed the ‘Syria Accountability Act’ with an overwhelming majority in favour of imposing sanctions on the Syrian government, citing its support of suicide bombers and other terrorists among its justifications. This appears to have encouraged Sharon further along the path to escalating conflict and undermined any further possibility of dialogue between Syria and the USA. Syria’s vice-president Abd el Halim Khaddam stated that Israel is “waging psychological warfare against Syria”. Khaddam said to a group of Arab reporters: “The Israelis make threats daily. They amount to psychological warfare, waged by the US congress, the media and Israel.” The next day the Israelis sent their jets once again to fly over the Syrian forces in Lebanon.

The Israelis assume that another attack on Syrian soil will force Syria to retaliate. That would allow them to launch an even more powerful attack against both the Iranian rockets in Lebanon and the Syrian Scud-C and Scud-D ballistic missiles. After such a campaign, Syria and Iraq would no longer be a threat to Israel. Only one country would be left in the region for the Israelis to neuter, which is Iran.