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Syria, Israel, and the regional war – what lies ahead?

Syria has kept out of the war; its president pledged a stable Syria that could offer partnerships in energy and economy. But all of that might change as Syria may vote to join a war after all. 

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends the Ministry of Awqaf conference titled "Unity of Islamic Discourse" at the Conference Palace in Damascus, Syria, February 16, 2026.
IDF killed six terrorists and arrested dozens in "Operation Five Stones" in the northern West Bank.

Israel faces multiple challenges in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria for last weeks of December

  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.

Damascus announce completion of anti-Assad loyalist campaign

 IRAN’S PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, earlier this month.

Syria's Assad to steal spotlight at Arab summit after years in the cold


Women sold as sex slaves in Islamic State markets, says UN official

UN's Valerie Amos says the number of women in Syria facing sexual slavery and forced marriage is on the rise.

Yazidi refugees flee for their lives from Islamic State forces near the Syrian border, August 11.

War-torn Syria celebrates as countryman wins Arab Idol contest

Celebrations in Damascus, Aleppo after Hazim Sharif wins popular singing contest.

Syrian singer Hazim Sharif (L), winner of Arab idol season 3, stands beside a presenter during the finale in Zouk Mosbeh area, north of Beirut December 13, 2014.

Head of Syrian army after alleged airstrikes: Israel working with ISIS and al-Qaida

Syrian state television said on Sunday that Israeli jets had bombed areas near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon.

Photograph reportedly showing Syrian air defenses reacting to IDF strikes near Damascus.

US Holocaust museum exhibits graphic photos of Syrian victims of Assad regime

The museum announced that it had obtained thousands of images which provide a terrifying glimpse into the Assad regime's campaign of torture and oppression. WARNING: Images are graphic.

Syrian refugee boy cries as he attends the funeral of five Free Syrian Army fighter near Idlib

Watch: Syrian child sniper discusses killing soldiers: There's nothing to it

"I killed my first soldier on this front. When I killed him, I didn't feel anything. He was the first, but then came a second, and a third. I've gotten used to being a sniper."

Syrian rebel child

Syrian father asks Israeli doctors: Save my son, he's all I have left

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa preforms brain surgery to rescue Syrian child wounded by explosion; mother, brother die in Syria.

WOUNDED SYRIANS are treated at this Israeli field hospital on the Golan Heights.

Analysis: Combat fatigue may finally spell the end of Syrian civil war

Syrian civil war may very turn out to be mirror-image of the 15-year civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990.

A FIGHTER from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra