Israel is celebrating the fall of Assad because it breaks the noose that Iran had been patiently tightening around Israel’s borders in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Tehran’s pincer is now broken and rendered useless. From the point of view of Israel’s wider conflict with the Islamic Republic, the collapse of Assad’s regime is a strategic victory.
How did Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad get away with murdering hundreds of thousands and dumping them in mass graves? Easy: The world let him and bashed Israel instead.
Former President Bashar al-Assad allegedly shared information about the weapon depot and critical missile locations with Israel.
Syria’s leadership isn’t the only aspect of the country to be changing as a result of this month’s toppling of longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad. The blurring of its borders is also underway — from Israel to the southwest and Turkey to the north.
Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles.
Gaza Gaza’s destruction has sharply divided conflict experts, including war veterans-turned-academics, over whether Israel has conducted a disastrous or successful campaign in its 14-month war. The debate is in sharper focus after the fall in Syria of Bashar Al Assad,
Israel's "demographic development" plan to increase settler numbers only applies to the area of the Golan Heights that Israel seized during the Six Day War in 1967 and later annexed in 1981 and not to territory taken since al-Assad's ouster.
Israel has paved the way for a decisive strike against Iran’s nuclear programme by eliminating swathes of Syria’s military infrastructure, according to officials speaking to The Telegraph following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Infants sheltering in flimsy tents die of hypothermia as Hamas, Israel trade blame for delays in reaching a truce deal.
Israeli occupation forces have intensified their military attacks across multiple West Bank, including Tulkarm, Nour Shams, and al-Amari, injuring at least 8 Palestinians, including a young girl and a paramedic and arresting 25 Palestinians.
The Golan Heights was once home to thriving Syrian communities, with its fertile lands and water sources. After the 1967 War, the Golan was occupied by Israel but Syria has never given up its claim to the territory and international law still recognises it as part of Syria.
The announcement comes after Kurdish groups said they had launched a counteroffensive against Turkish forces that entered Syria and taken territory