Sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority became a huge matter in early March, when massacres left well over 1,300 people dead and the ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) insisting the matter was over and an investigation would happen. The probe has been...
Israel has made much of the idea that Syria’s new Islamist government is a direct threat to them, as they continue to invade southern Syria and carry out regular airstrikes across the country. Quietly, they’ve been carrying out negotiations since at least April under...
As Israel continues to escalate its attacks across Syria, they are running into some resistance from Turkey. Turkey is reportedly frustrated with the growing Israeli strikes on Syria, and there was an incident over the weekend where two Turkish F-16 fighter jets were...
Israel continued to carry out strikes against Syria throughout the weekend, launching a number of additional airstrikes centered on the idea they are “protecting” the Druze minority in Syria after last week’s sectarian violence left over 100 people dead. The violence...
A week after the leader of Syria’s Islamist government, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was talking about his openness to normalizing relations with Israel, the Israeli military has carried out yet more strikes against Syria, attacking the area around the presidential palace in the...
Clashes in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana earlier this week centered on Syria’s Druze minority, but like a lot of the sectarian tensions in the country seems to have grown substantially from there, with reports now putting the overall death toll in the anti-Druze...
Sectarian fighting in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana left at least 18 dead yesterday, and Israel is already looking to parlay that into a new excuse for military action against the Syrian government, with the idea that they need to “protect” the Druze minority...
Violent sectarian gunbattles have erupted in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana, when Sunni gunmen from the nearby Maliha suburb attacked Druze groups in the area. At least 18 people have been confirmed killed, including seven Druze fighters. Two security force members...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said Israel would stop its military operations only if "hundreds of thousands" of Palestinians are removed from Gaza and Syria is partitioned, among other conditions, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. "With God’s...
Much has been made recently of Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and their openness to normalizing relations with Israel. The specifics of this interest are more and more public, as a letter Syria submitted to the US has been made public. The letter has made it clear...
