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.

When I talked with Israeli national-security officials last year, the most realistic of them spoke of Gaza’s future as resembling the West Bank today.

Goods from Iran, Israel, and Russia are no longer allowed into Syria. The new Syrian government has announced a corresponding ban on imports, according to Alarabiya. The agency notes that, following the fall of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad has led to a face-off between Turkey and Israel in Syria, where both countries have deployed forces. Relations between Turkey and the Jewish state were already strained over the Gaza war,

An Israeli airstrike targeted a military convoy in southern Syria on Wednesday, marking the first strike against the forces of Syria’s new authorities.

October 3, 2023, Tehran. The stage is set with a crowd buzzing like a hive, officials and foreign dignitaries shoulder to shoulder, hanging onto

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was seated on the dais at Trump’s inauguration Monday, signaling a budding alliance with the president. Massie, the Republican who co-sponsored the bill to repeal the ban, posted a photo he’d taken of Chew from the crowd on X. “Tick tock, the TikTok ban is about to end,” Massie wrote.

Syria is expected to join the Iranian-led “resistance front” soon, a member of the Expediency Council said on Wednesday, despite the ousting of key Tehran ally Bashar al-Assad.

Iranian and Israeli citizens have been banned from entering Syria, a source from Damascus airport said, after international flights to the country resumed last week. Syria's new leadership has no

Iranians and Israelis have been banned from flying to Syria, which is under new leadership since last month's overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, an airport source said.International flights resumed at Syria's main airport in Damascus on January 7,

A BRITISH holiday firm plans to restart trips to Syria just six weeks after the fall of tyrant Bashar al-Assad’s regime. London-based Untamed Borders stopped taking travellers there last year amid

Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani called on Israel to “immediately withdraw” its ... marking his first visit to the country since last month’s fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Upon arrival, Sheikh Mohammed held ...