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Syrian Druze allowed to enter Israel, work in Golan Heights, Katz confirms

The Syrian Druze were a minority in the Assad era who mostly kept to themselves, with some past positive history with Israel.

 Druze from villages in northern Israel seen in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, April 17, 2023
 A bombed hangar after the IDF hit weapons depots near the Mazzeh military airport, outside Damascus, on December 9, 2024

Israel’s frenzied reality: When destroying an enemy navy isn’t the top news story - analysis

 Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, Koussay Aldahhak

Syrian mission to UN to continue work after regime exit, calls for Israel's withdrawal

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with Turkey's Halk TV in Damascus, in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA on October 4, 2013.

Syrian regime leader Assad lands in China - analysis


Syrian regime dismisses rumors of serious Assad illness

State news agency SANA published photos of Assad in a meeting and quoted him as praising the industrialists' contributions to Syria's war-torn economy.

Bashar Assad

Aleppo and Tel Aviv

If Arabs massacre Arabs, if Muslims kill Muslims, how would they behave towards Jews?

People stand near near rubble of damaged buildings in the northern Aleppo countryside in Syria in December 2016

Syrian opposition figures to make rare public appearance in Israel

Six years into the civil war, a minority within the opposition is arguing that the taboo on Israel is no longer relevant.

People stand near near rubble of damaged buildings in the northern Aleppo countryside in Syria in December 2016

My shame for not speaking sooner

I believe that I am a good person, but I did nothing, and evil has triumphed in Syria.

PEOPLE WAIT for buses after being displaced by fighting near Aleppo in Syria

Middle Israel: Aleppo, the foreign policy fiasco

The Syrian metropolis’s collapse as the Obama presidency expires is a fitting finale to one of the worst foreign policy records in US history.

People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes on the rebel held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.

After the fall of Aleppo

The Syrian Army’s seizure of the rebel-held area in eastern Aleppo puts the Assad regime clearly on the ascendancy, but the civil war is far from over.

Syrians walk over rubble of damaged buildings in Aleppo, November 28, 2016

Pas de nouvelles, bonnes nouvelles

Les crises humanitaires en Irak et en Syrie sont loin d’être la préoccupation essentielle en Occident

Un marché de Noël, loin de la dureté des guerres

US seeks regional path to Syria peace at Lausanne talks

It was the first meeting between Kerry and Lavrov since the collapse of a second attempted ceasefire in September.

A woman stands outside the Beau-Rivage Palace ahead of Syria talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, October 15, 2016. The T-shirt reads: "Assad must go".

Not all Syrians in the mood for Assad regime’s disco extravaganza

The party, sponsored by the government’s Voice of the Youth station and the Damascus Laugh 18 Facebook page is planned as a massive disco bash in a main square of Damascus.

People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes on the rebel held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.

Mortar reportedly hits Israel's Golan shortly after Syrian ceasefire starts

The Syrian army said a seven-day "regime of calm" would be applied across Syria, and it reserved the right to respond using all forms of firepower to any violation by "armed groups".

Smoke rises during fighting in the village of Ahmadiyah in Syria, as seen from the Israeli side of the border fence between Syria and the Golan Heights [File]