Syria
The Israeli prime minister offered his first overview of the war in an interview that described his tense talks with the Biden administration.
“Iran will have no role whatsoever” in Syria after the fall of Basher Assad, U.S. diplomats told reporters on Friday.
Middle East scholar Mordechai Kedar lays out the opportunities developing in Syria and the potential Sunni wave that may topple Iran—with Israeli help.
“Israel, of course, as we’ve long said, has every right to its self-defense and its security,” a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
It marks the first face-to-face meeting between Erdoğan and Pezeshkian since the collapse of Syria’s Assad regime.
The crisis can be an opportunity for coordination between the two nations, but Ankara and Jerusalem have conflicting interests and goals.
Amichai Chikli juxtaposed an independent Kurdistan with a Turkish-ISIS alliance
“Please rest assured that Israel and its intelligence agencies are fully coordinated with the relevant American authorities on the matter,” Netanyahu wrote in a letter to the missing journalist’s mother.
Locals are reportedly helping the IDF safeguard weapons left over from the Arab country’s civil war.
“The peak of Mount Hermon serves as the eyes of the State of Israel to detect near and far threats,” Israeli Defense Minister Katz said.
The director of B’nai B’rith’s United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs called out the group’s vilification of Israel, stating, “Somehow, no one else—literally, no one—is censured in Rev. Pillay’s statement on the Syrian situation.”
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed a willingness to strengthen ties with Washington, Ankara’s foreign policy—particularly its engagement with BRICS, pro-Hamas stance, and continued ambivalence toward NATO—poses significant challenges.
