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Israel Briefing Day 524: Israel seeks to normalise relations with Lebanon, amid hostility and confusion

Plus, Israeli negotiators extend stay in Doha for Hamas talks

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

Ambulances transport the coffins of Hezbollah fighters and civilians killed in the recent war with Israel (Picture: Getty)

UN-patrolled buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights (Picture: Getty)

Israel Briefing

Israel Briefing Day 523: Israel announces long-term IDF presence in Syria amid rising tensions

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government ride in the back of a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Jake Wallis Simons

By Jake Wallis Simons

Silence over jihadi butchery in Syria tells you all you need to know about the West’s distorted view of the Middle East

4 min read

A Syrian fighter shows the victory sign as the new Syrian government's army clashes with Assad loyalists on the Syrian coast near Latakia on March 7, 2025. (Photo by ASAD AL ASAD/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

What is happening in Syria – and how is Israel responding?

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Iran has reportedly established a new terror group in Syria following the fall of Assad. (Pictured: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah ALI Khamenei greets a gathering personnel from the Iranian Army, Air Force and Air Defence Force; Image: Alamy)

Iran establishes new terror group in Syria to halt post-Assad ‘occupation’

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Israeli soldiers stand atop an armoured personnel carrier in the buffer zone which separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams (Getty)

IDF says it will defend Druze suburb of Damascus from Syrian regime forces

1 min read

A map of the Middle East in a geography textbook marks Israel as Palestine (Impact-se)

New Syrian government issues textbooks filled with antisemitism and praise for terrorists

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

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Kamal Alam

After Assad, will Syrian Jews flourish once again?

One of the oldest Jewish communities in the world was finally driven out in the Nineties. Will it return?

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January 8, 2025 12:26

The Great Synagogue of Aleppo is between 1,500 and 3,000 years old and was in use until 1992 when almost all of the Jews departed

How Israel neutralised a Iranian missile factory deep inside Syria

The IDF has revealed details of their daring mission in September last year

By Yaakov Lappin

3 min read

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January 3, 2025 10:30

How Israel neutralised a Iranian missile factory deep inside Syria

Rabbi Joseph Dweck

By Rabbi Joseph Dweck

As a Syrian Jew, the country’s tragic story resonates

War, displacement, destruction and despair compel reflection on living through exile

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January 2, 2025 07:36

An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo on November 30 (Getty Images)

Handful of remaining Syrian Jews visit Damascus’s main synagogue amid post-Assad hopes

Damascus's Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue—or what's left of it—is now safe to visit again after more than a decade in the midst of a war zone

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December 31, 2024 11:15

2YY95MJ Damascus, Syria. 18th Dec, 2024. The 2,000-year-old synagogue located in the suburb of Jobar, Damascus, totally destroyed after clashes from 2013 to 2018, as seen few days after the regime of Bashar El Assad collapsed, as seen near Damascus, Syria, on December 18, 2024. Photo by Ammar ABD RABBO/ABACAPRESS.COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

Seth J. Frantzman

By Seth J. Frantzman

2025 could see a wave of optimism spread across the Middle East

The regime falling in Syria could usher in a new era of cooperation in the region

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December 31, 2024 10:01

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) (C-L) leads a delegation of officials including Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval (2nd-L) as they are received by Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (C-R) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

Loay Alshareef

By Loay Alshareef

Have Syria’s new rulers really left jihadism behind?

Replacing one form of extremism with another is not a solution

3 min read

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December 31, 2024 09:53

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) (C-L) leads a delegation of officials including Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval (2nd-L) as they are received by Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (C-R) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Bakr ALKASEM / AFP) (Photo by BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images)

How Iran is trying to get supplies to Hezbollah, in spite of chaos in Syria

After Hezbollah supply lines cut in Syria, Tehran will ‘reexamine options’

By Yaakov Lappin

2 min read

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December 17, 2024 11:21

Sain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and slain IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani (Getty Images)

Druze in Syria ask to live under Israeli rule out of fear of new Islamist radicals

A video on social media shows Druze community members in southern Syria calling to be annexed by Israel rather than live under Islamist rule

By Eliana Jordan

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December 15, 2024 12:52

An Israeli army soldier holds a portrait of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on 14 December, 2024. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Outcry after BBC reporter suggests Jews will live in ‘diverse’ Syria

Comments came after Jeremy Bowen said Israel wanted Assad to remain in power

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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December 11, 2024 17:09

Lyse Doucet has attracted ire after she said “Jewish, Muslim, Christian - they’re all here and they want to believe they have a space now as Syria embarks on this new chapter.”

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