Syria

Israeli Strikes Target Hezbollah Intelligence HQ in Syria

Israel's military said its air force struck the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah's Syrian branch in a strike on Damascus on Monday, an attack a war monitor said killed two people. It was a rare acknowledgement by Israeli authorities of an attack against Syria. The military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since ...

UN Reports Israeli Strikes on Humanitarian Structures at Jousieh Crossing

UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said an Israeli air strike hit “humanitarian structures” Saturday at a border crossing between Lebanon and Syria that was previously hit last month. The crossing, known as Jousieh on the Syrian side, became a key escape route for those fleeing the Israel-Hezbollah war after the main border crossing ...

Israel Targets Hezbollah Weapons Depots in Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said five civilians were killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on Syria's Qusayr region near the border with Lebanon, where Israel said it hit Hezbollah weapons depots. The Britain-based war monitor said three strikes targeted the town of Qusayr, where Iran-backed Hezbollah holds sway, and surrounding ...

US Military Airstrikes Eliminate 35 Jihadists in Syria

American air strikes killed up to 35 Islamic State group members in Syria earlier this week, the US military said Wednesday. It is the latest in a series of operations in recent months by US and local forces in Iraq and Syria against the jihadists, who once held swathes of territory in both countries. "The strikes hit multiple ISIS locations in ...

Israel Strikes Syrian Military Positions Amid Rising Tensions With Iran

Syrian state news agency SANA said Israel conducted an air attack on Saturday from the occupied Golan Heights and Lebanon, targeting military positions in Syria. Citing an unnamed military source, the agency said the attack at around 2:00 am (2300 GMT) had targeted positions in central and southern Syria. The attack prompted Syria to activate ...

More than 500,000 fled to Syria in Israel-Hezbollah war

Lebanese authorities said Friday that more than half a million people, mostly Syrians, had crossed into Syrian territory since Israel began heavily striking Lebanon late last month in an all-out war with Hezbollah. Since September 23, Lebanon has "recorded the crossing of 348,237 Syrian citizens and 156,505 Lebanese citizens into Syrian ...

Kurdish-Led Syria Force Says Turkish Strikes Kill 12 Civilians

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Thursday that Turkish airstrikes killed 12 civilians in northeastern Syria, following a deadly attack on a defense firm near Ankara. "Over the past hours, a new wave of (Turkish) attacks on northern and eastern Syria" killed "12 civilians, including two children," and wounded 25 others, a ...

Israel Demining Near Golan Signals Wider Front Against Hezbollah

Israeli troops have cleared landmines and erected new barriers along the frontier between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the demilitarized zone adjacent to Syria, according to a report on Reuters. Security sources and analysts indicate that this action may signal Israel's intention to expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while ...

Damascus: A Ruthless Universe…

“One people, two countries,” proclaimed Hafez al-Assad. Syria's role in Lebanon's disintegration is significant. The 100-day battle in 1978, during which the Syrian army surrounded and incessantly bombarded the Ashrafieh neighborhoods, the brutal siege of Zahleh in 1981… These events, among many others, are deeply ingrained in collective ...

US Forces Strike Islamic State Group in Syria

US forces “conducted a series of airstrikes against multiple known ISIS camps in Syria in the early morning of Oct. 11,” the US Central Command said in a statement on X, using an acronym for the Islamist militant group. “The strikes will disrupt the ability of ISIS to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against the United States, its allies ...

Syrian-Lebanese Border Crossings: Latest Statistics and the Ongoing Displacement Crisis

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health stated that "from September 23rd to October 11th, 2024, General Security recorded the crossing of 317,457 Syrian citizens and 115,044 Lebanese citizens into Syrian territory." Similarly, it announced that as of Saturday (today), 187,000 displaced people (39,000 families) have been registered in the shelters ...