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Syria

Seth J. Frantzman

Syria’s new rulers need to show Israel and the rest of the region that it will not be a threat

Nature abhors a vacuum and Syria is now a power vacuum. Let us hope it is filled with something positive

By Seth J. Frantzman

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Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group (Getty Images)

Israeli tanks near the Syria buffer zone fence (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

Are Israeli soldiers really approaching the gates of Damascus?

1 min read

Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (Image: UK Parliament).

‘Apologise!’ Corbyn heckled by Labour MP as he criticises Israel instead of condemning Assad

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the IDF to create a secure area beyond the buffer zone with Syria (Image: Getty)

Israel moves to control Syria buffer zone

3 min read

Syrian regime airstrikes target anti-regime fighters in Aleppo, in northern Syria on November 30 (Image: Getty)

The scale of Iran’s loss in Syria cannot be overstated

By Yaakov Lappin

3 min read

Israel has responded to the heightened instability on its northern border after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s sudden ousting (Image: Getty)

Israel deploys troops to Syrian border as Assad regime falls

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech before the newly-unveiled sign for the new settlement of "Trump Heights" in the Golan Heights (Credit: Getty Images)

UK views Golan Heights as occupied territory, despite voting against Israeli withdrawal

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

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Jonathan Spyer

By Jonathan Spyer

What is happening in Syria is a microcosm of the dynamics of the Middle East

No one should have been surprised by the clash of rival ethno-sectarian forces, supported by powerful states, because that is how power is wielded across the region

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December 5, 2024 10:49

Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) fighters move past abandoned Syrian army military equipment and vehicles, as they reach al-Safirah town southeast of Aleppo city on December 3 (Getty Images)

Yaakov Katz

The uprising in Syria is providing a convenient distraction for Bibi

Israel’s security policy must be rooted in more than immediate threats and tactical distractions

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December 5, 2024 07:30

Syrian regime airstrikes target anti-regime fighters in Aleppo, in northern Syria on November 30 (Getty)

Israel ‘wary’ of growing Islamist power in Syria as rebels advance

Military planners welcome the setback to Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’ but fear ‘chaos’ sparked by the collapse of the Assad regime

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December 4, 2024 11:35

Anti-government fighters seized the city of Aleppo from the Syrian regime (Photo: Getty Images)

Iran-backed militia vows to join Assad and Hezbollah in Syrian chaos

Instability in northern Syria follows Israel's debilitating blows against Iran's proxies

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December 1, 2024 10:08

Members of Iraq's Shiite Muslim al-Nujaba movement wave the Palestinian flag during a rally in Baghdad on October 8 (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images)

⁠Israel has set itself up for an attack that devastates the Iranian regime

⁠Israel has started normalising attacking Iran in the same way that strikes on Syria have become routine and barely noticed

By David Wurmser

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October 28, 2024 10:38

Iranian missiles on Febrary 4, 2024, in Tehran, Iran. Iran has played a significant role in multiple concurrent regional conflicts, conducting recent airstrikes in Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan. Additionally, Iran supports Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthi movement in Yemen. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli special forces raided major Iranian chemical weapons centre in Syria, reports say

The IDF also had boots on the ground during the attack, a local news agency has claimed

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September 12, 2024 10:49

The site of Israeli strikes on the outskirts of Masyaf in Syria's central Hama province on September 9, 2024 (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel strikes major chemical weapons centre in Syria, reports say

The site was being used by Iran to make precision surface-to-surface missiles, Israel says

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September 9, 2024 08:28

Israel strikes major chemical weapons centre in Syria, reports say

Terror militias in Iraq now have drones that can hit Eilat

On Saturday, two UAVs approached the area north of Eilat from Syrian territory

By Yaakov Lappin

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July 15, 2024 09:25

Smoke billows from forest fires near the southern Lebanese village of Shebaa, close to the northern border of Israel, following the shooting down of a drone by the Israeli army on July 4, 2024 (Getty Images)

Top Iranian commander killed in alleged Israeli strike in Damascus

A building close to the Iranian embassy in Damascus was reportedly targeted by the IDF

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April 1, 2024 17:17

Emergency and security personnel work at the site of strikes which hit a building next to the Iranian embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, on April 1, 2024. Syrian state media said Israeli strikes hit an Iranian consular annex in the capital on April 1, while a war monitor reported eight people were killed and Iranian state media said a senior commander of the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was among the dead, amid rising regional tensions due to the Gaza war. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)

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