In December of 2024, immediately following the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Israel invaded southwest Syria, and occupied a substantial swathe of land including the UNDOF demilitarized zone and Mount Hermon. Throughout negotiations and persistent further...
Israeli forces have raided the town of Abdin in southwestern Syria’s Yarmouk River Basin, in Daraa Governorate. The raid saw troops advance into the al-Areadah residential neighborhood to search homes. Reports from the town were that Israeli troops, in the course of...
This weekend once again saw Israel conducting a growing number of operations against southwest Syria, pointing to yet further escalation and leading to the capture of multiple locals in Quneitra Governorate. The detentions happened Thursday night into Friday, with an...
UN Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council related to Israeli military operations in southwest Syria, warning that the operations are increasingly impacting Syrian civilians in ways that could amount to war crimes under...
Israel has capped off an August that saw a steady increase in number and intensity of incursions into southwest Syria with a further escalation, with multiple new infiltrations into the country and at least one new detention reported. The weekend operations were...
Syria’s Druze community, centered around the southern Suwayda Governorate, is undergoing substantial unrest lately, with Sheikh al-Aql Hikmat al-Hijri, one of the religious minority’s top three spiritual leaders, declaring the Druze community to be an “integral part...
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz visited Mount Hermon, inside what was once the UNDOF-controlled “demilitarized zone” in southwest Syria, but which is presently presented as a “buffer zone” entirely under Israeli military occupation. That occupation, according to...
With growing numbers of incursions reported by Israeli forces into southwest Syria, the latest incidents are noteworthy both for being unusual in size and in one case for going far deeper into Syria than previous operations. Dozens of Israeli soldiers, supported by at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has justified Israeli airstrikes that hit Syria on Tuesday by claiming the Syrian government was about to allow the deployment of Turkish troops to an air base near Aleppo, as Israel has been taking an increasingly hostile...
Multiple new Israeli raids were reported in Syria over the weekend, including raids on villages in Quneitra and another incident on Friday in which Israeli forces opened fire on the western Daraa village of Maariyah. In Quneitra Governorate, troops raided Jbata...
