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The war to cut off Hezbollah: HTS battling against Iran-backed smuggling routes - Washington Post

Syrian armed forces and patrols are facing frequent fire from Hezbollah terrorists seeking to rearm after its war against Israel.

APRIL 12, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

Illustrative image of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

$50 billion to Syria vanished into thin air: Unrest in Iran grows over economic turmoil - interview

"The regime anticipates demonstrations and uprisings. They understand that things are very fragile."

JANUARY 10, 2025|ByPELED ARBELI

IN SEPTERMBER 2007, IDF fighter jets carried out Operation Orchard and destroyed a nuclear reactor in Syria. If not for the Israeli operation, nuclear weapons could eventually have fallen into the hands of Sunni jihadi terrorist organizations now beginning to contend for power in post-Assad Syria.

The world has Israel to thank for no nuclear fears in post-Assad Syria- opinion

Thanks to Israel, the now-impending Syrian chaos may be deeply destabilizing, but it will plausibly be nonnuclear.

JANUARY 7, 2025|ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES

IDF confirms special forces raid of Iranian missile facility in Syria in covert operation

With the fall of the regime, information security officials likely view any threat of retaliation from Syria as being at a much lower risk level.

JANUARY 1, 2025|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Iranian advisers killed in Israeli strike on IRGC HQ in Syria - state media

The attacks on an IRGC operational headquarters destroyed the building, local media reported.

JANUARY 29, 2024ByJOANIE MARGULIES

An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration at a graduation ceremony for Israeli air force pilots

Iran's President Raisi flies to Turkey for delayed Gaza talks

Iran’s official line is that the visit by Raisi is about economic and commercial issues and the Palestinian issue is only a close second in the discussions.

JANUARY 24, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gives a speech during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of senior Iranian military commander General Qassem Soleimani in a US attack, in Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2024.

Pakistan recalls ambassador from Iran, bars Iranian envoy from returning

The foreign ministry said Iran's strike on targets in Pakistani terrritory was an unprovoked and blatant breach of Pakistan's sovereignty and was "unacceptable."

JANUARY 17, 2024ByREUTERS

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi speak during a Joint Inauguration of the Polan-Gabd Electricity Transmission Line, at Mand-Pishin border crossing point, in Pishin, Pakistan May 18, 2023.

Israel shifts to deadlier strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria

Israel's military chief said Israeli forces work throughout the region and take "whatever action necessary" to show Israel's determination to defend itself.

JANUARY 8, 2024ByREUTERS

Smoke rises during an exchange of fire between the IDF and terrorists from the Hezbollah organization on the border between Israel and Lebanon, January 6, 2024.

US forces in Syria targeted four times in less than 24 hours - US military official

So far, at least 56 US personnel have suffered everything from minor wounds to traumatic brain injuries, though all have returned to duty, the Pentagon has said.

NOVEMBER 13, 2023ByREUTERS

A US soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq June 21, 2017

Air traffic at Syria's Aleppo airport to resume after alleged Israeli airstrike

Operations will restart at the airport at midnight, Syria's transport ministry said.

AUGUST 29, 2023ByREUTERS

Smoke rises from shelling on the road to Aleppo international airport.

Iran is working to take over Syria’s chemical weapons industry - report

The Alma report also says that Hezbollah resorting to chemical weapons ‘in the next confrontation with Israel cannot be ruled out’

AUGUST 2, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

A United Nations (U.N.) chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria August 29, 2013.

Syrian and Jordanian army and intelligence chiefs meet over drug war along border

Syria is accused by Arab governments and the West of producing the highly-addictive and lucrative amphetamine captagon and organizing its smuggling into the Gulf, with Jordan a main transit route.

JULY 24, 2023ByREUTERS