Since the December regime change in Syria, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government has repeatedly talked up improving the nation’s relationship with Israel. That talking point hasn’t gone away, even if it seemed less probable with Israel actively invading...
Updated 6/4/2025 2:00 PM Eastern For the first time since the regime change in Syria in December and the subsequent Israeli invasion of the southwest frontier of the country, Israel reported rocket attacks against their territory, in the occupied Golan Heights, coming...
Israeli troops continue to move deeper into Syria, raising consternation among the locals as they detain civilians on suspicion of “terrorism” and set up roadblocks to prevent villagers from accessing their lands inside the newly occupied “buffer zone.” That “buffer...
When Israel invaded Syria in December, it announced the intention to remain at Mount Hermon, along the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) region on the Syrian side of the border, through 2025. That appears to have been just the start, as Israel has taken more...
Israel’s military foray into southern Syria continues to grow this evening, as Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of airstrikes across that part of the country, and threatened additional airstrikes in the future, and an open-ended military occupation....
IDF statements detail that the ongoing invasion of southern Syria is getting broader and broader, with officials saying that they have carried out dozens of raids even deeper into Syria in recent weeks. They did not clarify exactly how deep they’ve gone, but there...
Concerns about Israel’s newfound hostility toward Syria’s new Islamist government, run by al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) grew substantially today after an Israeli drone attacked a military convoy belonging to the new government in the southern Quneitra...
Though Israel was very supportive of the HTS regime change in Syria last month, Tel Aviv is now using that regime change as a pretext for open-ended occupation of more Syrian territory, above and beyond the occupied Golan Heights. New reports citing unnamed senior...
Initially suggested to be about establishing a new buffer zone between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and southwestern Syria, the Israeli incursion after the regime change continues to grow, with them seizing yet more villages in the Daraa Province. Israeli troops...
On Sunday, the Israeli government approved a plan to surge the settler population of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which comes after Israeli troops captured more land inside Syria following the downfall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The plan will...
