“The fate of the hostages is contingent upon the Israeli army advancing just hundreds of meters in some of the areas under attack,” Abu Ubaida stated, warning of the escalating risks Israeli military operations pose to captives held in Gaza.

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops the US has long said are in Syria,

The smuggling routes to the West Bank had two routes: the first passed through Syria to Jordan; the second route began in Syria, through Lebanon, and then weapons were smuggled directly into Israel.

In the past week, the Pentagon has acknowledged that its footprint in Iraq and Syria is bigger than it has claimed for years

Assad’s Telegram account said he left Syria for Russia from Hmeimim air base on Dec. 8. In Gaza, the death toll passed 45,000, the Health Ministry said.

Geir O. Pedersen’s comments come as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham officials, Syria’s de facto leaders, work to attain international legitimacy.

For much of the past decade, Assad’s regime, bolstered by unwavering support from Iran and Russia, brutally suppressed dissent. What began as an uprising in 2011 evolved into a devastating civil war that eventually settled into an uneasy stalemate.

DUBAI (Reuters) - 2025 will be a year of reckoning for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country's arch foe Iran. The veteran Israeli leader is set to cement his strategic goals: tightening his military control over Gaza,

Defense Minister Israel Katz confirms for the first time that Israel was behind the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran over the summer. Also at a commemoration event for local security officers,

American axis, whose weakest link is Iran. If Tehran loses Syria, it will lose the land route to resupply Hezbollah and its coveted access to the Mediterranean. Trump also benefits from Israel’s decimation of Hamas and Hezbollah and Turkey’s support for anti-Assad forces to constrain the Iranian regime without going to war.

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