Syria Israel

IDF kills PIJ terrorists on Lebanon-Syria border as groups continue trying to smuggle weapons

Israel, with the help of Syria's new government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, has succeeded at blocking much of the cross-border Lebanon-Syria weapons smuggling activities.

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024
REPRESENTATIVES FROM the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Magen David Adom, and COGAT at the delivery of ambulances at the Syrian border.

When faith is targeted, we must respond with compassion, even across borders - opinion

ONE YEAR after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria, under Ahmed al-Sharaa, is perhaps a nicer place to live, but the suspicion that Sharaa’s formula is but a variation of Assad’s has raised questions about Syria’s long-term direction. Here, the president speaks, marking one year since Assad’s fall, o

Israel-Syria talks advance, but key security questions remain

US President Donald Trump meets Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa in the White House, Washington, DC, November 10, 2025

Trump pushes Israel to embrace Sharaa, forcing Israel to reassess Syria doctrine - analysis


Trump aide: Israel was part of Syria cease-fire talks

A national security adviser said the administration had successfully brokered a ceasefire agreement by cooperating with Moscow and "with Israel, with Jordan involved."

A general view shows Baath city, bordering the Israeli Golan Heights, Syria June 24, 2017.

Behind the smoke screen of Israeli-Syrian rebel links

The concern for Israel is that one day the stalemate on the Golan will change.

The Syrian area of Quneitra is seen in the background as an out-of-commission Israeli tank parks on a hill, near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, in the Golan Heights.

Israeli Defense Minister to Syria: 'Don't test us'

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had stern words for Syria after spillover from the Syrian Civil war landed in Israeli territory for the fifth time in one week.

IDF tanks are seen along the Golan Heights border with Syria

Can Israel continue to keep its distance from the Syria chaos?

The increased tempo of Israeli attacks against Assad regime targets mark a more assertive, and overt, Syria policy on behalf of Israel.

Homs, Syria

Knesset panel tells government: Pay Nahariya hospital for treating Syrians

“Various parties knew how to take credit for the humanitarian decision to absorb the wounded from the war in Syria, but the matter of paying for the treatment has fallen between the cracks.”

Long empty hospital corridor (illustrative)

A country torn asunder

Alia Malek paints a romantic picture of a prewar Syria.

A shop selling vegetables is seen at al-Shikh Muhialdin in Damascus in August 2008

Why did the IDF employ top-tier anti-ballistic tech against Syria strike?

While there are few doubts about the IAF's ability to prevail strikes like Thursday night's, what comes next?

IAF fighter jets during the Red Flag joint exercise at Nellis air force base in Nevada

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

Israeli youth collecting winter supplies for Syrian kids

“This is the least we, the citizens of Israel, can do in the face of this human horror.”

Members of the Civil Defence rescue children after what activists said was an air strike by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria June 2, 2014

Rebel fracturing threatens new round of Syria talks

Russia and the United States have hoped that the talks, set for January 25, would bring together Assad officials and rebel leadership around the same table.

A girl carries her brother as she stands at the entrance of her tent during the cold weather in a camp for internally displaced people in Idlib province, Syria