Israel continued its ground invasion of southwestern Syria Tuesday, but encountered some resistance, the first time it faced any meaningful opposition since invading in December. It came in the form of locals, who reportedly fired on Israeli troops in the area around...
Israel Sends More Troops Into Syria, Launches Airstrikes on Multiple Sites
Israel continued its attacks on Syria this weekend, sending more troops into the Quneitra Governorate near the occupied Golan Heights and also launching multiple airstrikes against military sites in central Syria, including a military airport in Tadmur. The Tadmur...
Syrian Government, SDF Begin Talks on Integrating Kurds Into Army
While the process is still far from finished, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) dominated Syrian government and the Kurdish SDF began talks on Wednesday about integrating the SDF forces into the army. During the Syrian Civil War, the SDF set up control over substantial...
Iraqi Tribal Council Proposes Volunteer Force to Fight HTS in Syria
Syria’s Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led government and its role in the massacre of well over a thousand civilians, mostly Alawites, in the northwest earlier this month continues to loom large not just internally but in Syria’s relationship with the...
Israeli Armored Vehicles Sweep Into Syria’s Quneitra In Largest Incursion Yet
With growing focus on Israel’s resumption of hostilities against the Gaza Strip, the country has continued its military aggression elsewhere in the region as well. In Syria, there are more attacks, and an even bigger ground invasion. Israel first started invading...
Ceasefire in Doubt as Syrian Troops Occupy Lebanon Border Village, Burn Homes
Yesterday’s clash at the border between the Lebanese Army and the Syrian Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government’s forces seemingly ended with a ceasefire overnight. Eight Syrian soldiers were killed in the Monday fighting, along with five (some unconfirmed reports say...
Turkey Kills Family of Nine in New Attacks on Syrian Kurds
Turkey and its auxiliaries continued its attacks on the territory of Syrian Kurds overnight, with a Turkish airstrike against a farm just south of Kobani leaving nine people in the Othman Abdo family dead. Most of the slain were reportedly children. Turkey and its...
New Fighting Erupts at Syria-Lebanon Border as HTS Shells Lebanese Village, Deploys Tanks
Updated 3/17/2025 11:34 PM EDT The Lebanon-Syria border has been mostly quiet for the past month after a brief incursion by Syria’s government, the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in early February. Now there is renewed fighting in the exact same area after HTS...
Israeli Airstrike Hits Damascus, One Reported Killed
An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in the Syrian Capital of Damascus on Thursday, killing at least one person, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz acknowledged the strike, claiming the apartment...
Syria Placed Under Islamist Rule for Five Years by New Interim Constitution
In December, the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over Syria in an internationally-backed offensive. HTS was formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) before that. Today, their leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammad...