When I talked with Israeli national-security officials last year, the most realistic of them spoke of Gaza’s future as resembling the West Bank today.

Sharaa, announced his agreement to deploy UN forces in the designated buffer zone with Israel. Earlier, Israeli forces occupied the area after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Reuters reports. "Israel's advance in the region was due to the presence of Iranian militias and Hezbollah.

Iranians and Israelis have been banned from flying to Syria, which is under new leadership since last month's overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, an airport source said.International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on January 7,

They made his father watch and taunted him about his son’s torment. That was 2012, and the entire security apparatus of Syria’s then-president Bashar al-Assad was deployed to crush the protests that had arisen against his rule. With Assad’s fall a ...

Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’ The post Iranian general says Assad blocked Tehran’s effort to open Syrian front against Israel appeared first on The Times of Israel.

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad has led to a face-off between Turkey and Israel in Syria, where both countries have deployed forces. Relations between Turkey and the Jewish state were already strained over the Gaza war,

An Israeli airstrike targeted a military convoy in southern Syria on Wednesday, marking the first strike against the forces of Syria’s new authorities.