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Escalations in Southwest Syria as Israel Raids Quneitra, Daraa Governorates

by Jason Ditz | Jul 19, 2026

Israeli forces are launching more and more incursions into southwest Syria in recent days. Having launched about 450 incursions during all of 2025, that number has been met and nearly exceeded already in 2026, despite the year being barely half over. Multiple new...

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Direct Israel and Syria Talks At An Impasse Over Calls for Israel to Leave Demilitarized Zone

by Jason Ditz | Nov 18, 2025

In early December of 2024, the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) movement ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and took power. On December 8, Israel invaded Syria, occupying the demilitarized zone and going deeper, with incursions still ongoing. The first...

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Panic in Southwest Syria After Israeli Troops Raid Villages, Warn Locals Not to Construct Homes

by Jason Ditz | Feb 19, 2025

There has been quite a bit of disquiet in southwestern Syria after the December regime change, which was followed by a ground invasion from Israel. Israel started by seizing the demilitarized zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights but has increasingly moved...

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Israeli Army Advances Deeper Into Syria’s Quneitra Province

by Jason Ditz | Dec 30, 2024

The regime change in Syria earlier this month was followed almost immediately by an Israeli invasion across the demilitarized zone line separating Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. Since then, that invasion keeps getting deeper, with troops...

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Israel Seizes New Villages in Southern Syria, Fires on Protesters Opposing Occupation

by Jason Ditz | Dec 20, 2024

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...

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Israel DM Declares Syria War ‘Effectively Over’

by Jason Ditz | Aug 2, 2018

Israel DM Declares Syria War ‘Effectively Over’ | UN monitors return to Golan Heights frontier

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