Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’ The post Iranian general says Assad blocked Tehran’s effort to open Syrian front against Israel appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Israeli army seized demilitarized zone in occupied Golan Heights after Assad’s fall last month - Anadolu Ajansı

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Dozens of Hamas leaders and members were killed by the regime of ousted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported, citing sources close to the movement. The sources told the London-based newspaper that 94 Hamas members were executed in Syrian prisons without trial, as reported by Middle East Monitor.

The British wife of ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is deathly ill with leukemia — with doctors only giving her a 50% chance of survival, according to a report. “Asma is dying,” one source recently in direct contact with a family representative told the Telegraph of 49-year-old Asma al-Assad.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday called for the withdrawal of Israel from Syrian territory following the fall of long-time Tehran ally Bashar al-Assad.

Israel bombed Syrian army positions south of Aleppo on Thursday, the latest such strikes since the overthrow of longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor and local residents said.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations has issued what he called a final warning to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same "miserable fate" as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria's Bashar al-Assad if they persisted.

Iran’s security chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian has indicated that a new resistance group is set to emerge in Syria to counter Israel, following the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Iranian state media.

Syrian opposition forces had now captured Damascus and the whole mediterranean cost in a manner reminiscent of the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Bashar had left the country and presently he is now in Moscow as per Russian authorities.

Tensions are high on Syria’s border with Lebanon. The ouster of President Bashar al-Assad led to worry that violence could spill over into neighboring countries.

Assad’s flight from Syria marks the end of an era, but the country’s fragmented future is now being shaped by competing foreign and internal powers.

Ahmed al-Sharaa is hoping to convince the world that he's left his jihadist past behind, but FM Gideon Sa'ar and other senior officials are not persuaded The post As European and Arab leaders rush to meet Syria’s new leader,