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Druze and Syria analyst for BBC called Zionism ‘pure evil’

Robin Yassin-Kassab lashed out at Israel’s attempt to ‘create chaos’ in Syria during his World Service interview

By JC Reporter

3 min read
Robin Yassin-Kassab (Screenshot: YouTube)
Syrian security forces are redeploying to Sweida after a fresh round of Israeli airstrikes (Image: Getty)
Syria

Syrian security forces redeploy to Druze city as Israel resumes airstrikes after Bedouin attacks

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read
Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)
Arsen Ostrovsky

By Arsen Ostrovsky

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

3 min read
The Druze have existed for over a millennium (Image: Getty)
Druze

Who are the Druze and why is Israel defending them?

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read
Israeli troops stand guard as members of Syria's Druze community cross walk towards the fence to cross into the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near Majdal Shams (Getty)
Israeli Druze

Israel promises to strike Syrian forces to protect Druze city

By Yaakov Lappin

4 min read
Israel has launched strikes against Syrian troops entering the Druze city of Sweida (Image: Getty)
Syria

Netanyahu calls for calm as Israeli Druze flock into Syria amid sectarian violence

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read
A poster depicting Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes (Image: Getty)
Yossi Melman

By Yossi Melman

After Israel’s humiliation of Iran, a historic reshaping of the Middle East may already be underway

6 min read

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‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

By Imogen Garfinkel

6 min read

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June 19, 2025 10:39
Dan Brotman in Beirut's Jewish cemetery in 2022, where he found graves dating as recently as 2018. (Photo courtesy of Dan Brotman)
Kasra Aarabi

By Kasra Aarabi

The Syria-isation of Iran: Why the Islamic Republic could soon share the Assad regime’s fate

4 min read

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June 16, 2025 11:47
Israeli F-35s and F-15s refueling mid-air with a KC-707 tanker. (Image: IDF)

US to complete near-total military withdrawal from Syria

By Shachar Kleiman

1 min read

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June 4, 2025 13:01
The US' special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, has confirmed it will be consolidating its armed forces in the country to a single base (Image: Getty)

Trump to lift US sanctions on Syria after Al-Sharaa meeting

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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May 14, 2025 09:36
US President Trump has announced the lifting of sanctions on Syria during a tour of the Middle East (Image: Getty)

Israeli arrested after attempting to join ISIS

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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May 9, 2025 10:41
An Israeli man has been arrested after attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIS (Image: Alamy)

Qatar to bankroll Syria’s public sector pay hike with $29m cash boost

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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May 8, 2025 09:44
Qatar is set to provide $29 million to fund a pay increase for Syrian civil servants (Pictured: Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani; Image: Getty)

Syria in ‘secret talks’ with Israel over security and counter-terrorism

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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May 7, 2025 13:22
Israel and Syria have reportedly opened a diplomatic back channel, mediated by the UAE (Image: Getty)

Druze leaders in Syria agree to disarm after sectarian clashes

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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May 2, 2025 14:23
Syrian security forces have reportedly reached an agreement with Druze leaders to end the sectarian violence that swept Damascus this week (Image: Getty)

Syria ‘willing’ to join Abraham Accords, claims Trump ally

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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April 24, 2025 15:32
Syria's leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa has expressed willingness for his country to join the Abraham Accords, according to a US Representative newly returned from talks in Damascus (Image: Getty)
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