Syria
The U.S. Security Council unanimously approved the mandate extension as the Syrian government gains more trust from the United States and Israel.
“The ancient sources implying Queen Zenobia converted to Judaism are possibly accurate,” Haggai Olshanetsky, of University of Warsaw, told JNS.
The attack, which killed at least 20 people, was “cowardly,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
An Israeli Syrian expert tells JNS that the new regime sees Iran as “a hated enemy.”
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government should also “take necessary steps to ban and deport Palestinian terror groups,” said Dorothy Shea, the interim U.S. ambassador.
In a covert mission, the IDF and Rambam Hospital gave a 12-year-old Syrian girl life-saving care.
The strike occurred just beyond the IDF’s expanded buffer zone.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi hopes to finish inspections in the coming months.
Experts weigh new Syrian regime’s intentions versus its capability to control territory after the first cross-border attacks since Assad’s fall.
U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, who recently met with President Ahmed al-Sharaa, stressed that the burden of proof lies with the Syrian leader.
Tom Barrack met the Israeli PM in Jerusalem and said afterward that Trump envisions a Syria not used by any third party to threaten its neighbors.
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said only three American bases remain in Syria, and that eventually there will be only one.
