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Damascus faces difficult choices in southern Syria in light of Israeli airstrikes - analysis

Tensions flare as rockets from Syria prompt Israeli airstrikes, despite Syria’s new government seeking stability and rejecting hostile acts.

 Members of Syrian security forces stand guard at a damaged site, after Israel carried out an air strike on the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, as reported by Syria's state news agency, in Damascus, Syria March 13, 2025
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We need to give Syria a chance - opinion

 SUPPORTERS OF Hamas and Islamic Jihad take part in a rally last year in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

Why Palestinian Islamic Jihad slammed Israel’s Syria strike - analysis

 People walk at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on April 18, 2025.

Sixteen ISIS suspects found in sprawling detainee camp in Syria


Hezbollah won’t be disarmed easily despite Israel's progress - analysis

The comments by the Hezbollah leader reflect the challenge ahead: While Hezbollah is weaker than it was two years ago, it is still not gone.

 A vehicle carries the coffin of a commander from Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah armed group who was killed in what they called a "Zionist attack" in the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, during a funeral in Baghdad, Iraq September 22, 2024

Syrians recall Assad's deadly chemical weapon attack over a decade later - NYT

On August 21, 2013, sarin gas attacks in Syria's Ghouta and Moadamiya killed 1,500 people, marking the deadliest strike of the civil war. Assad faced no accountability.

 Children walk along a damaged street filled with debris in the Damascus suburb of Zamalka October 3, 2013.

WATCH: 22 IAF jets drop 60 bombs on Assad regime targets in Syria

Among the targets were radars and detection equipment used to assess aerial intelligence.

 A map of targets struck by the IDF in Syria.

Damascus announce completion of anti-Assad loyalist campaign

Clashes between Assad loyalists and the country's new Islamist rulers have killed more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians.

  Search and sweep operations are being expanded to track down remnants of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime after recent security tensions in the coastal region, where ousted regime elements attacked security patrols and checkpoints, resulting in casualties on March 07, 2025 in Latakia, Syria.

Syrian forces wage deadly clashes with Assad loyalists

Syria TV said the clashes were continuing in the Jableh region.

 A Syrian anti government fighter shoots against a large banner bearing a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, hanging on the facade of a municipal building in the west-central city of Hama on December 5, 2024.

UN rights chief urges Syria’s new government to pursue national reconciliation

He stressed that Syria must prioritize a process of transitional justice, warning against retaliation.

 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela January 28, 2023

Projecting strength and tolerance: New Syrian gov't faces biggest test yet - analysis

Two weeks after rebels overthrew the Assad regime, protests and accusations start up over the new government.

 Rebel fighters pose as they hold a Syrian opposition flag at the Umayyad Mosque, after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 9, 2024.

Iran’s self-delusion: Tehran scrambles to fix Syria ties after Assad's fall - analysis

After majorly interfering in Syria, Iran is now portraying Israel as the intruder.

 Iran's Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani speaks at the United Nations Security Council meeting, following a ballistic missile attack on Israel, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., October 2, 2024.

Residents of Syrian Golan villages, rebels transfer Assad weapons to IDF - report

Syrian villagers and rebels near the buffer zone are handing over Assad's former weapons cache—including chemical warfare materials—to the IDF, marking a significant shift in regional dynamics.

IDF soldiers stand atop tanks in the Golan Heights near Israel's border with Syria.

Syria retains 26 tons of gold reserves after Assad's fall - report

The dollar reserves have been nearly depleted because the regime increasingly used them to fund food, fuel and Assad's war effort, current and former Syrian officials have told Reuters.

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'Damascus taken by terror': Assad makes first comment since fleeing Syria to Russia

Syria's Bashar al-Assad relocated to Latakia in coordination with Russia to manage military operations after "Damascus was overtaken by terror," he claimed

 Portrait image of Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria