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Footage of the blast emerged as Israel announced plans to double its population in the occupied Golan Heights, citing threats from Syria. Israel occupied the Golan Heights during the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed the roughly 460-square-mile area in 1981 in a unilateral decision that was not recognized by the international community. An Israeli soldier rolls up a portrait of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad near the village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Saturday. “Israel will not permit jihadi groups to fill that vacuum and threaten Israeli communities on the Golan Heights with October 7th style attacks,” it said. The Syrian town of Quneitra, seen from the Golan Heights in Majdal Shams on Dec. 11.

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☆ Photos show how Israeli airstrikes wiped out remnants of Assad's military in Syria
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Israel launched widespread strikes on Syria to wipe out the remnants of the Assad regime's military. The strikes targeted Syrian weapon stockpiles after a rebel offensive ousted President Bashar Assad. Israeli warplanes and missile ships destroyed Syrian aircraft, naval ships, and weapon depots. AdvertisementThe Israel Defense Forces launched widespread strikes across Syria over the past two days to wipe out what remained of the Assad regime's military arsenal. AdvertisementAbout 350 of the strikes were crewed aircraft targeting Syrian military assets, including aircraft, ammunition depots, storage facilities, and missile and radar systems.

Persons: Israel, Assad, Bashar Assad Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Air Force, Israeli Navy, Assad Locations: Syria, Golan, Israel, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon

Israel has ordered troops to prepare to remain throughout winter on Mount Hermon — a strategic peak inside a buffer zone that has existed for decades with Syria but which Israeli forces have seized in the wake of the Assad regime's collapse. Israel has said its deployment to the buffer zone was temporary, but concerns have grown over what United Nations chief António Guterres on Thursday called “extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity" as he urged Israeli forces to withdraw from the buffer zone. On Friday, Katz shared a photo on X that he said showed him with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Syrian peak of Mount Hermon with binoculars, saying the site had "returned to Israeli control after 51 years." "An exciting historical moment," he wrote. In his warning, Guterres called for urgent de-escalation "on all fronts, throughout Syria" as he expressed particular concern over hundreds of Israeli strikes on locations across Syria in recent days following the toppling of the Assad regime, which crowds gathered in Damascus to celebrate Friday.

Persons: Israel, Mount Hermon —, Assad, Hermon, Israel Katz, António Guterres, Katz, Benjamin Netanyahu Organizations: Israeli Defense, AFP, United Nations, Israeli Locations: Mount, Syria, Israel, Mount Hermon, Damascus

The swift collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime represents a devastating defeat for Iran, the latest in a string of setbacks that have punctured long held assumptions in the West about Tehran’s military prowess. As the rebels pressed ahead, there was no concerted effort to stop the advance with Russian warplanes or Iranian-backed proxy forces. “Assad was effectively abandoned because his only friends ... Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, no longer had the capacity to help,” the official added. The United States and other governments had feared an Israeli attack on Iran would produce an overwhelming response against Israel by Iran’s proxies. Those officers had decades of experience in Syria and a network of contacts among the militants in Iran’s proxy network, including Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Yemenis and others.

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☆ Pentagon says it's almost like Russia's on a 'mission to protect ISIS leaders' after its fighter jets harassed US Reaper drones that took out a top terrorist
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Russian fighter jets harassed several US military drones operating above Syria on Friday. Those same American MQ-9 Reaper drones later went on to kill an ISIS leader during an operation. A Pentagon official said Monday it's almost like Moscow is "on a mission to protect ISIS leaders." On Wednesday, Russian Su-35s dropped parachute flares and engaged afterburners in front of three Reaper drones. The following day, Russian Su-34 and Su-35 fighter jets dropped flares and flew "dangerously close" to an unspecified number of Reaper drones.

Persons: Alexus Grynkewich, Usamah, Michael, Erik, Kurilla, Assad, Sabrina Singh, Singh, CENTCOM, Russian Su, Grynkewich, Colin Kahl, Kahl Organizations: Pentagon, ISIS, Service, Russia, Islamic, NATO, US Air Forces Central Command, US Central Command, U.S, US Air Force, Russian, US, Dassault Rafale, Air Force, Washington Locations: Syria, Moscow, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Washington, Russian, Screengrab

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