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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


Video: Russian helicopter shot down in Syria, killing all on board

They died a "heroic death" on a humanitarian mission, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters.

Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016

Mortar fire from Syria falls in Israel; IAF strikes source of fire

An IDF soldier takes part in drills on the Golan Heights

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks alongside Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, Rwanda on July 6

What’s behind the Manbij offensive in Syria?

The US made its choice to back PYD a while ago as the main support against ISIS. It thinks groups in the northern countryside will join the SDF sooner or later, but the American plan will not work.

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]

Analysis: Has ISIS created a new US-Russia Cold War?

This war is being waged in order to defeat ISIS and to create a new situation in the Middle East but it is also a war for hegemony and control of the area.

MiG-29 jet fighters of the Russian aerobatic team Strizhi (The Swifts) perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2015

Turkey's Erdogan: 'Everyone should respect the right of Turkey to defend its borders'

Row with Russia escalates, as Putin argues that Russian plane was inside Syrian territory when it was shot down.

Putin and Erdogan

Les réfugiés et l'avenir de l'Europe

Catastrophe humanitaire, désastre annoncé, le Vieux Continent doit passer à l’action

Réfugiés sur les routes

Report: Lebanese Hezbollah and Syrian army enter rebel-held Syrian border city

The army, backed by Hezbollah, has long sought to wrest control of Zabadani, near the Lebanese border, from the rebels who have held it since 2012.

Damaged buildings in Al-Zabadani, Syria (file)

UN calls for safe passage for Palestinians stuck in ISIS-held refugee camp in Syria

Islamic State's arrival in Yarmouk has given the jihadist group a significant foothold a few kilometers (miles) from President Bashar Assad's seat of power.

Yarmouk refugee camp

Nearly 13,000 Syrians tortured to death by Assad regime, 20,000 vanished since beginning of war

The figures include 108 children, the youngest of whom was merely 12 years old.

Zaatari refugee camp with Syria in the distance.