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Israel-Syria talks advance, but key security questions remain

Israel maintains that it has both a moral and strategic obligation to ensure the security of the Druze, especially following the massacre there last year.

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
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

A view of the runway at the Mezzeh military airbase along with several hangars, at southwest of Damascus, Syria, November 4, 2025

Israel ‘trying to drag’ Syria into a conflict, senior regime official claims - report

A person holds up an image of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a protest in support of Syrian territorial unity and against division, in Damascus, Syria, November 28, 2025.

Sharaa's general intelligence behind attack on IDF in Syria's south, Druze in east - report


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

On My Mind: Saving Syria

The Syria Transition Roadmap reviewed Syria’s political system, economy, army and security services, and judiciary, and came up with concrete, workable recommendations for reform.

A MAKESHIFT refugee camp in Suruc on the Turkey, Syria border

Family of Israeli Arab who paraglided into Syria: We don't believe security forces' story

23-year-old Jaljulya man's family says they received a message from an anonymous caller that he is alive and well in Syria; family doesn't believe he flew to Syria to join ISIS.

Smoke rises following an explosion on the Syrian side near the Quneitra border crossing between the Golan Heights and Syria, August 29, 2014.