New Damascus leadership says it's ready to cooperate with UN force, deploy troops to Golan to adhere to 1974 agreement that created a demilitarized zone Israel has now seized

Israel’s Minister of Defence Israel Katz has confirmed that the country’s defence forces or IDF will remain in Syria’s buffer zone indefinitely. On his visit to southern Syria, he said Israel will also connect with the Druze community to establish relations and continue their measure of preventing hostile forces from taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria,

As the new year begins, Israel stands at a critical crossroads, facing a complex web of challenges that include security, economic stability, and social cohesion. While Israel has demonstrated resilience in navigating past crises, the intersection of these challenges requires immediate attention and long-term strategic planning by its leadership.

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Iranian and Israeli citizens have been banned from entering Syria, a source from Damascus airport said, after international flights to the country resumed last week. Syria's new leadership has no

DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard provided additional details on her meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017, while appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sharaa, who was instrumental in ousting Bashar Al Assad from power, has been appointed as transitional president of Syria for an unspecified period. A statement announcing the news carried by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) news agency declared “victory of the revolution,

Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, collectively part of the Hashd al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), face increasing calls to place their arms under state control or lay them down entirely. The fall of the Assad regime,

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, Syria, and the United States.

A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk outside a morgue in Damascus. Her head wrapped in a scarf, she rocked back and forth and clasped her hands, wailing about what she had lost to Assad’s regime. “Help me,” she called. “They took my sons. Where are they?”

The rebel offensive benefited from careful preparation and the support of Turkey, which occupies territory in Syria’s north and provided the only safe access route to Idlib, where HTS was based. Even so,

Kash Patel to run the FBI? He “probably has a big misstep that is hanging over his head, but ultimately, he is in relatively good shape,” the member said, referring to Patel’s past penchant for compiling enemies’ lists and openly discussing legal vengeance.