Syria briefly closes border crossing with Lebanon
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A video of Israeli jets bombing Syria’s Defence Ministry in 2025 has been falsely described online as Iran hitting Israel in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Saturday.
When we fled the war at home, they tried to stop us coming. Now there is war here, they’re not letting us leave’
Syria’s Alikhbaria TV reported that Israeli forces intercepted an Iranian missile over the village of Al-Hayran in the Quneitra countryside in southern Syria, with no casualties reported.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the Damascus headquarters served as a command center for deploying regime forces to Suwayda, a southern Syrian region gripped by days of deadly clashes between government troops, Druze militias, and Bedouin groups.
Syria’s foreign minister is hinting that Damascus and Jerusalem may be able to come to more arrangements in the future, in the wake of talks held in Paris in January.
Israeli forces arrested two residents of the village of Kodna in the southern Quneitra countryside on Wednesday, local residents said.
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Syria's new government and Israel will set up a joint group under US supervision to share intelligence and seek military de-escalation on the ground, they announced Tuesday after talks. The Syrian foreign minister traveled to Paris in his country's first ...
The difference is striking: one side green, the other brown. It is the result of what local residents in the southern Syrian governorate of Quneitra say was the spraying of chemicals by Israeli planes inside Syrian territory in late January, destroying grazing areas and farmland.