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 No.485932[View All]

Syrian rebels enter Aleppo three days into surprise offensive
Insurgents had recaptured territory around Syria’s second city with civilians including children killed in fighting

Islamist insurgents have entered Syria’s second city of Aleppo in a shock assault, eight years after forces loyal to Damascus seized control of the city.

Fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began a major offensive earlier this week from their base in the Idlib countryside, a slim strip of land in Syria’s north-west. It took only three days for the fighting to reach Aleppo, with insurgents capturing territory around the city’s outskirts for the first time in four years as Syrian government forces pummelled rebel-held areas.

Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency reported on Friday afternoon that the insurgents had entered Aleppo, while unverified images and video circulating online showed armoured vehicles and armed uniformed militants on its streets. The Associated Press said residents reported hearing missiles striking its outskirts.

The fighting over the last three days had killed 27 civilians, including eight children, David Carden, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told Reuters.

The rebels have rapidly recaptured dozens of towns and villages in the Aleppo countryside, seizing a military base, weaponry and tanks from Syrian government forces, while some Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups based elsewhere in north-west Syria joined the fighting.

The UN said Syrian government forces based in Damascus carried out at least 125 airstrikes and shelled areas across Idlib and western Aleppo controlled by the rebels in response to the offensive, killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 46 others, and displacing 14,000 people.

Syria has been promised extra Russian military aid to help the army thwart the assault, two Syrian military sources told Reuters on Saturday. Damascus expects new Russian military hardware to start arriving at Russia’s Hmeimim airbase near Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the next 72 hours, the sources added.

HTS said on Friday that it had captured four more towns including Mansoura, five miles from the centre of Aleppo. Syria’s state news agency said four civilians were killed inside student accommodation in the city when it was struck by projectiles from insurgent forces.

“The regime’s lines of defence have crumbled, I think they were taken aback. No one anticipated how fast the rebels would reach towards the edge of Aleppo,” said Dareen Khalifa, of the nonprofit International Crisis Group.

She added that it remained unclear whether the rebel forces would be able to hold the swath of captured territory, or how Russian forces backing the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may respond.

Turkey’s foreign ministry called for calm in the region around Idlib, demanding an end to the strikes on the area. “It is of utmost importance for Turkey that yet another and greater instability is avoided and civilians are not harmed,” it said.



A delicate balance of power in Syria has been increasingly tested over the past year, however, amid increasing regional fallout from Israel’s battle with the Iranian proxy group Hamas in Gaza.

Israel has dramatically escalated airstrikes against Iranian forces stationed on the ground in Syria, carrying out more than 116 strikes on Syrian territory, according to the UN, and killing more than 100 people, while recent fighting in Lebanon has forced 500,000 people to flee into neighbouring Syria.

The increasing Israeli strikes have put Iranian forces in Syria on the defensive, allowing rebels to exploit a moment where various proxy forces backing Assad are more engaged elsewhere.

Khalifa said Moscow remained focused primarily on the fighting in Ukraine. “The Russians are distracted in Ukraine. They are less invested politically if not military in Syria,” she said. “It’s difficult to tell what the result of this offensive is going to be. The rebels think the other side is vulnerable, and they have leverage.”

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that Moscow regarded the rebel attack as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.

Turkey, which backs rebel groups along Syria’s northern border but has sought recently to normalise relations with Assad, is yet to publicly intervene in the latest round of fighting.

HTS said it would target Iranian forces fighting alongside Syrian government troops as part of the latest offensive. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said a commander from the Revolutionary Guards was killed in western Aleppo late this week.

The fighting and airstrikes appeared to paralyse much of the fragile network of services across rebel-held territory in Idlib, forcing the closure of health services and other infrastructure that sustain millions seeking shelter there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-on-aleppo
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 No.488019

Laith Marouf sez HTS convoys are heading towards Iraq.
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 No.488041

Galloway on Syria (starts around 3 mins I think, initially he's talking about the Romanian election)
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 No.488057

HTS is apparently making friends with the Kurds now.
Seems sort of odd.
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 No.488085

>>488041
He thinks the Romanian population will not accept the abolishing of their democratic rights and enforce their democratic choice of leadership, and says they have done so before. I don't know anything about Romania, so is that's how it's gonna be ?

Yeah the Syria shit sucks. Consider the average Syrian had to endure extreme material hardship because the Syrian economy got sanctioned to shit, and now they have to dodge the sectarian head-choppers.

>>488057
>Seems sort of odd.
Indeed, the Kurds are at odds with Turkey who is HTS's principle backer.

HTS might just be desperate.
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 No.488086

>>488085
>I don't know anything about Romania, so is that's how it's gonna be ?
Idk anything about Romania either lol

>HTS might just be desperate.

I'd guess the Kurds are too.
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 No.488187

Syria accuses Hezbollah of abducting, killing three soldiers

The Syrian Defence Ministry said that Hezbollah had abducted the three soldiers from inside Syria, taken them to Lebanon, and then killed them.

The ministry said that the abduction happened near the Zeita Dam, on the Syrian-Lebanese border in Homs province.

“A group from the Hezbollah militia … kidnapped three members of the Syrian army on the Syrian-Lebanese border… before taking them to Lebanese territory and eliminating them,” the Syrian state news agency SANA quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.

Al Jazeera Arabic earlier reported that clashes had taken place on the Syrian-Lebanese border. Hezbollah has, however, denied any involvement in the incident.

aje.io/7jyucr?update=3583344

Astute observers with a great memory will recall that Israel bombed Damascus two days ago. For some reason, these HTS guys (formerly Al Qaeda) are only focusing on attacking Alawites, Christians, and Lebanon, though.
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 No.488339

https://twitter.com/redstreamnet/status/1905232716263473484
“The lands of the Syrian Arab Republic are forbidden to Israel.” Beyond the genocidal war on Gaza, Israel continues its attacks on Syria and Lebanon.

In recent days, Israel invaded and bombed the Syrian village of Koayiah, killing seven people and forcing residents to flee. Locals protested the attack, urging the new Syrian administration and the international community to intervene and stop Israel's aggression. Last night, Israel struck the city of Latakia several times. Ahmad al-Sharaa has not commented on the Israeli attacks.

In Lebanon, despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks persist. Israeli drones continue to fly over Lebanese territory, and attacks leading to deaths continue. This morning, Israel bombed Yahmar al-Shaqif in south Lebanon with 13 artillery shells, killing at least four people. Lebanese authorities reported over 1,250 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including at least 100 fatalities and over 330 injuries.
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 No.489257

Israel’s attacks on Syria part of its ‘new vision’ for the Middle East

Labib al-Nahhas, director of the Syrian Association for Citizens’ Dignity, says Israel’s claim that it is launching attacks on Syria to protect the Druze community is just a “false pretext” for a land grab.

“Their official narrative that they’re there to protect the Druze needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, because Druze themselves within Israel are considered second-class citizens. So that cannot be the genuine intention,” al-Nahhas told Al Jazeera.

He said “a new Israel” emerged after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas-led fighters.

“The Israel we see is the most expansionist, aggressive, and hostile that we’ve seen since 1967. It has said it won’t stop the war until Syria has been partitioned. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu has said they’ll establish their own buffer zone without any Syrian military presence,” said al-Nahhas.

“So what we’re seeing here is Israel trying to shape Syria to its liking in a way that Syria will remain weak, decentralised, and won’t pose any threat to Israel in the coming months and years. This intervention plays to the interests and new vision of Israel in the region.”

https://aje.io/p407e2?update=3687432
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 No.489818

The STFD-686 app operated with disarming simplicity. It offered the promise of financial aid, requiring only that the victim fill out a few personal details. It asked innocent questions: “What kind of assistance are you expecting?” and “Tell us more about your financial situation.”

The expected answer was clear: financial help. In return, users would supposedly receive monthly cash transfers of around 400,000 Syrian pounds — roughly $40 at the time — sent anonymously via local money transfer companies. Sending small sums across Syria, whether under real or fictitious names, required nothing more than a phone number, and the black market was teeming with intermediaries ready to facilitate such transfers.

On the surface, the app appeared to offer a special service for officers. Its first disguise was a humanitarian one: claiming to support the “heroes of the Syrian Arab Army” through a new initiative, while showcasing photos of real activities from the official Syria Trust for Development website.

The second mask was emotional, employing reverent language that praised the soldiers’ sacrifices: “They give their lives so that Syria may live with pride and dignity.” The third was nationalistic, and framed the app as a “patriotic initiative” designed to bolster loyalty, and this mask proved the most persuasive.

The fourth mask was visual: The app’s name, both in English and Arabic, mirrored the official organization exactly. Even the logo was an identical replica of Syria Trust’s emblem.

Once downloaded, the app opened a simple web interface embedded within the application, which redirected users to external websites that didn’t display in the app bar. The sites, syr1.store and syr1.online, mimicked the official domain of Syria Trust (syriatrust.sy). The use of “syr1,” an abbreviation of Syria, in the domain name seemed plausible enough, and few users paid much mind. In this case, no special attention was given to the URL; it was simply assumed to be trustworthy.

To access the questionnaire, users were asked to submit a series of seemingly innocent details: full name, wife’s name, number of children, place and date of birth. But the questions quickly escalated into riskier territory: the user’s phone number, military rank and exact service location down to the corps, division, brigade and battalion.

Determining officers’ ranks made it possible for the app’s operators to identify those in sensitive positions, such as battalion commanders and communications officers, while knowing their exact place of service allowed for the construction of live maps of force deployments. It gave the operators behind the app and the website the ability to chart both strongholds and gaps in the Syrian army’s defensive lines. The most crucial point was the combination of the two pieces of information: Disclosing that “officer X” was stationed at “location Y” was tantamount to handing the enemy the army’s entire operating manual, especially on fluid fronts like those in Idlib and Sweida.

According to an analysis by a Syrian software engineer, what the officers dismissed as a tedious questionnaire was, in reality, a data entry form for military algorithms, turning their phones into live printers that generated highly accurate battlefield maps. “The majority of officers often ignored security protocols,” the engineer said. “I doubt any of them realized that behind these innocent-looking forms, traps were laid for them with the innocence of a wolf.” He added that while the mechanism of espionage was technically old, it remained devastatingly effective, especially given the widespread ignorance of cyberwarfare within the Syrian army.

At the bottom of the application’s web page, another trap lay in wait: an embedded Facebook contact link. This time, the user’s social media credentials were siphoned directly to a remote server, quietly stealing access to personal accounts. If the victim somehow escaped the first snare, there was a good chance they would fall into the second.

After harvesting basic information through embedded phishing links, the attack moved to its second stage: deploying SpyMax, one of the most popular Android surveillance tools. SpyMax is an advanced version of SpyNote, notorious on the black market, and typically distributed through malicious APK files (files designed to install mobile apps on Android phones), disguised on fake download portals that appear legitimate. Crucially, SpyMax does not require root access (the highest level of access to the phone’s operating system) to function, making it dangerously easy for attackers to compromise devices. While original versions of the software sell for around $500, hacked versions are also freely available. In this case, the spyware was planted via the same Telegram channel that distributed the fake Syria Trust app and installed on officers’ phones under the guise of a legitimate application.

SpyMax has all the functions of RAT (Remote Access Trojan) software, including keylogging to steal passwords and intercept text messages; data extraction of confidential files, photos and call logs; and access to the camera and microphone, allowing real-time surveillance of victims.

Once connected, the victim can appear on an attacker’s dashboard, the live feed displaying everything from call logs to file transfers, depending on the functions selected.

The spyware targeted Android versions as old as Lollipop — an operating system launched in 2015 — meaning a broad range of both older and newer devices were vulnerable. An examination of the permissions granted to the app showed it had access to 15 sensitive functions, the most critical among them including tracking live locations and monitoring soldiers’ movements and military positions, eavesdropping on calls, recording conversations between commanders to uncover operational plans in advance, extracting documents like maps and sensitive files from officers’ phones and camera access allowing the person who launched the spyware to, potentially, remotely broadcast footage of military facilities.

read more:
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-a-spyware-app-compromised-assads-army/
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 No.489882

Dan Kovalik and Jamarl Thomas on alleged intra-faction fighting within HTS and supposed dissonance with Israel-backed al-Jolani
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 No.489886

>>489882
Like the guy in the vid points out the policy is keeping Syria down. If there's factional fighting that certainly would align with that policy.
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 No.490438

>be "former" ISIS leader
>win civil war against tyrannical Assad regime
>top Iraqi general warns you to stay the fuck away from his country
>Turkey takes territory from the east
>Israel bombs state buildings, destroys remaining Syrian air defenses, air force, naval fleet, and almost the entire arsenal you just inherited from Assad but left unmanned and unguarded for some reason
>IDF takes even more land from your country than they already occupied, kicking your people out of their homes
>reach out to Israel to extend the hand of friendship
>such is the price of de-escalating and creating a lasting peace after the end of this brutal civil war
>begin massacring Alawites and Christians
>invade Lebanon
>topple priceless ancient artifacts, destroy symbols of Syrian culture
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 No.490472

>>490438
>invade Lebanon
I missed this one. What's Hezbollah doing about it?
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 No.490473

>>490472
That was last year or earlier this year IIRC.
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 No.490481

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Suicide bomber kills at least 22 in Greek Orthodox church in Syria during Divine Liturgy

DWEIL’A, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media reported.

The attack took place in Dweil’a on the outskirts of Damascus inside the Mar Elias Church, according to state media SANA, citing the Health Ministry for the toll of dead and wounded. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there were at least 19 peopled killed and dozens wounded, but did not give exact numbers. Some local media reported that children were among the casualties.

The attack on the church was the first of its kind in Syria in years, and comes as Damascus under its de facto Islamist rule is trying to win the support of minorities. As President Ahmad al-Sharaa struggles to exert authority across the country, there have been concerns about the presence of sleeper cells of extremist groups in the war-torn country.

No group immediately claimed responsibility Sunday. Syrian Interior Ministry spokesman Noureddine Al-Baba said in a news conference that their preliminary investigation points to the extremist Islamic State group. The ministry said one gunmen entered the church, fired at the people there before detonating himself with an explosives vest, echoing some witness testimonies.

“The security of places of worship is a red line,” he said, adding that IS and remaining members of the ousted Assad government are trying to destabilize Syria.

Syrian Information Minister Hamza Mostafa condemned the attack, calling it a terrorist attack.

“This cowardly act goes against the civic values that brings us together,” he said on X. “We will not back down from our commitment to equal citizenship … and we also affirm the state’s pledge to exert all its efforts to combat criminal organizations and to protect society from all attacks threatening its safety.”

Witnesses said the gunman with his face covered entered and fired at the people. When a crowd charged at him to remove him from the church, he detonated his explosives at the entrance.

Syria’s Social Affairs and Labor Minister Hind Kabawat, the country’s Christian and female minister, met with the clergy at the church in the evening to express her condolences.

“People were praying safely under the eyes of God,” said Father Fadi Ghattas, who said he saw at least 20 people killed with his own eyes. “There were 350 people praying at the church.”

However, Meletius Shahati, a church priest, said there was a second gunman who shot at the church door before the other person detonated himself.

Issam Nasr who was praying at the church said he saw people “blown to bits.”

“We have never held a knife in our lives. All we ever carried were our prayers,” he said.

Security forces and first-responders rushed to the church. Panicked survivors wailed, as one lady fell to her knees and burst into tears. A photo circulated by Syrian state media SANA showed the church’s pews covered in debris and blood.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-church-attack-damascus-mass-da2ed505d6625fce1fc9de9e88c200a3
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 No.490482

>>490481
Maybe they should have kept Assad after-all.
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 No.490486

I wonder which one is worse: white supremacy & colonization vs arab supremacy & colonization vs Russo supremacy & colonization


nature is built on struggle to maximize profits. to expand and get more.

And the Arabs found a gold mine as to use religion to advance their race.
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 No.490555

Per a guy named N. Hourani on Twitter:
Hi Razan, proud Syrian here 🙋🏽‍♂️

As I'm sure you know, today marked the non-renewable deadline for the investigative committee probing war crimes committed during the coastal violence in March. And yet, no official statements have been issued.

Many of us (perhaps naively) have been awaiting the results of the government's investigation for 4 months now. Since March, many of my relatives have fled due to ongoing abuses. Some narrowly survived the pogroms. Moreover, my little sister is terrified of leaving her home due to ongoing kidnappings of young Alawite women and arbitrary violence against civilians committed in no small part on sectarian grounds.

Does the Syrian government plan on publishing the results?

https://x.com/DarthHummuss/status/1943441512311701780

This is in response to a March 9th tweet in which someone named Razan Saffour wrote that Jolani had assured someone from the Alawite community that the massacres of Alawites (and Christians) earlier this year would be investigated and there would be accountability.
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 No.490557

>>490486
>I wonder which one is worse: white supremacy & colonization vs arab supremacy & colonization vs Russo supremacy & colonization
Comparing Apple and Oranges. Russian is a multi ethnic national identity, Arabic might be too, not sure.

>nature is built on struggle to maximize profits

we should ask the shrubs and flowers for a quarterly earnings report.

>the Arabs found a gold mine as to use religion to advance

Not a goldmine. The US is using religious fundamentalists as mercenaries to plunge entire regions of the Arab world into chaos.
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 No.490558

>>490555
>Jolani had assured someone from the Alawite community that the massacres of Alawites would be investigated
<The Fox had assured someone from the chicken community that the massacres of chickens would be investigated
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 No.490569

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1943689110125736254/
Syria: Massive explosion inside the air defense battalion in the vicinity of Al-Nayrab town near Aleppo International Airport.
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 No.490585

The Syrian Civil War might be the least ended civil war to ever "end," and it's on purpose, quite obviously.
https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1944432994019578055
Massive clashes in Suwayda, southern Syria, between Druze militias and government forces

So far, 7 are confirmed killed & over 20 injured. The fighting erupted after several Druze citizens were kidnapped, which led to the mobilisation of militia forces.
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 No.490590

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1944538400469479816
MintPress News: Syrian tribal militias affiliated with the government forces attack Druze civilian areas

Videos emerge showing the capture of Druze, including an elderly man by militants with ISIS patches near Suwayda.

Syrian government forces are on the way now, it is unclear whether they are heading there to de-escalate or join in on the sectarian violence, as happened on the Syrian coast against the Alawite minority.
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 No.490594

https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1944721845447426469
Israel's Channel 12:

Syrian tanks crossed the borders set by Israel in southern Syria, so Israeli aircraft struck them.

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 No.490603

Per Press TV -
https://x.com/PressTV/status/1944770758963589463
Abu Musab al-Shami, a senior HTS commander, was killed in clashes with Druze factions in Syria’s Sweida province.
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 No.490609

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1945084364594819119
A religious leader from the Druze community (Bani Ma'aruf) calls upon fellow Druze to take up arms against the Golani occupation forces, vowing steadfast resistance and defense of their sacred land.

Syria, Suweida.
15th of July, 2025.
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 No.490611

File: 1752662656590.jpg ( 55.88 KB , 404x319 , July 16 2025 Israel bombs ….jpg )

Israel bombs Syrian army HQ.
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 No.490612

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1945331903164289280
Syrian regime aligned militias have burned the St. Michael’s Church

The sectarian militants invaded the Sweida Province, in order to attack the Druze minority group.

Along the way they stopped in Al-Soura al-Kabira village and targeted the Christian place of worship.
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 No.490613

File: 1752678552062.jpg ( 216.95 KB , 770x578 , July 16 2025 A view of the….jpg )

Ben-Gvir calls for ‘elimination’ of Syrian president
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said that the “only solution” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa “is to eliminate him”.

“The horrific images from Syria prove one thing: once a jihadist, always a jihadist. Those who kill, shave mustaches, humiliate, and rape should not be negotiated with,” Ben-Gvir said on X.

“I love the Druze citizens in the State of Israel, and I embrace them warmly, and I tell them: we must cut off the head of the snake,” he added.

Ben-Gvir has previously been convicted on charges of supporting a Jewish “terrorist organisation” and of incitement to racism against Arabs and non-Jews.

Druze religious leader says new ceasefire deal reached
Following the confirmation by Syria’s Interior Ministry of a ceasefire agreement, Druze religious leader Sheikh Yousef Jarbou has also said there has been a deal with the government in Suwayda, which will take immediate effect.

He made the announcement in a video broadcast by state media.

No other details were immediately available.

Israel’s main goal has been to ‘divide and weaken Syria’
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara has called the Israeli attacks in Syria “vulgar exhibitionism”, saying Israel is “once again trying to prove to all its neighbours that it is the new regional hegemon”.

Bishara said that Israel, which is supported by the US, has been able to bomb Beirut, Damascus, Tehran and Sanaa, and feels it is capable of dictating policy in the Middle East.

Israel’s “main goal has been to divide and weaken Syria, turn its minorities, whether they are Druze or Kurds or Alawites, against the central government in Damascus”, he said.

It is also a way for Israel to deflect from its genocide in Gaza by bombing Syria, Bishara noted, adding the attacks in Syria are “yet another Israeli aggression in a neighbouring country”.

He also said the Israeli government will say the attacks are “to protect the minorities in Syria – in this case, the Druze”.

Bishara added, “Since the 1950s, Israel has pretended to be the protector of minorities, like the French colonialists … like the American imperialists, the British … every foreign power comes to the region, and they want to be protectors of minorities to weaken countries in the region to impose their will, and here we have it again.”

Israel confirms attacks on Syrian army HQ, presidential palace
The Israeli army has confirmed it targeted Syria’s army headquarters in Damascus and a “military target” near the presidential palace.



So far, one person has been killed and 18 others wounded in Israeli attacks on Damascus, according to Syria’s Health Ministry.

Israeli attacks on Syrian defence ministry fills Damascus neighbourhood with smoke
Al Jazeera was broadcasting from Damascus with the Syrian Defence Ministry in shot in the background as the building was hit by three or four Israeli strikes a few minutes ago, sending several mushrooming grey clouds into the air.

Huge columns of smoke are continuing to billow from the ministry, engulfing the building and drifting throughout the neighbourhood.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/16/live-israel-bombs-gaza-syria-as-alarm-grows-over-malnourished-children
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 No.490621

‘Any attack on the Syrian state is an attack on the Druze community’
Druze religious leader Sheikh Yousef Jarbou has condemned Israel’s air strikes on central Damascus, which Israel says it carried out to protect the Druze minority and prevent hostile forces from gaining ground near its borders.

“Any attack on the Syrian state is an attack on the Druze community,” Jarbou told Al Jazeera Arabic.



Jarbou said the agreement enjoyed broad support within the majority-Druze city of Suwayda in southern Syria and expressed his hope that the Syrian state would overcome the obstacles posed by attempts to disrupt it.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/17/live-israel-bombs-syria-as-latest-strikes-on-gaza-kill-at-least-93?update=3842712
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 No.490626

Syrian Bedouin fighters launch new offensive in Suwayda: Report

Syrian Bedouin fighters have reportedly launched a new offensive in Suwayda against Druze fighters, despite a ceasefire agreement that was announced last night.

A Bedouin military commander told the Reuters news agency that the truce only applied to government forces and not to them.

The commander said the fighters were seeking to free Bedouins whom Druze armed groups had detained in recent days.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/17/live-israel-bombs-syria-as-latest-strikes-on-gaza-kill-at-least-93
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 No.490630

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1946031388370616813
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’a fled Damascus, according to reports

Some Syrian channels have denied it, while other media outlets claim al-Shara’a did flee as Al-Mayadeen reported, but to Idlib with Turkish coordination.

Also reports of an assassination attempt against the defence minister.

While the situation in Syria remains unclear, the State appears to have at least temporarily disintegrated for now & has no power over a myriad of armed groups mobilising across the country.

Israel is backing many actors in a bid to further cripple the country. Complete chaos.
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 No.490635

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1945965188974624888
BREAKING: 41 Bedouin Tribes Have Mobilised To Fight In Southern Syria

This Bedouin force heading to Sweida, to fight against the Druze, could number up to 40,000 if they all arrive there.

The Druze militias are estimated to be 60,000 fighters in total.

In other words, this is an impending bloodbath if not stopped immediately.
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 No.490858

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Nearly 10,000 killed in Syria since 'diversity-friendly jihadists' seized power: Report
Sectarian violence and massacres against Alawites, Druze, and Christians have skyrocketed since former ISIS commander Ahmad al-Sharaa became president in DecemberThe UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented the violent deaths of nearly 10,000 people in Syria since the former ISIS commander, Ahmad al-Sharaa, was installed in power in Damascus.

After Sharaa toppled the government of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in December last year, he was widely praised. An article in the UK's Telegraph described his armed group, the former Al-Qaeda affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), as “diversity friendly jihadists.”

Since that time, his HTS-led security forces have gone on a killing spree targeting Syria's minority groups.

SOHR reported on 7 August that “due to ongoing violence and violations by local and foreign actors, coupled with widespread security chaos,” at least 9,889 people have been killed since 8 December 2024, the day Damascus fell.

The SORH said that 7,449 civilians were among the victims, including 396 children and 541 women.

It also stressed that there has been no accountability for killings carried out by members of Syria's security forces and affiliated armed factions, while “in some cases, perpetrators are being covered up and facts are being distorted.”

The SOHR noted, for example, that the fact-finding committee formed to investigate the massacre of roughly 1,600 Alawite civilians in Syria's coastal regions in March “did not provide results consistent with the facts,” and was released while government forces and affiliated factions were carrying out new massacres of Druze civilians in Suwayda.

At the same time, pro-government media have launched campaigns aimed at undermining any groups seeking to document or expose the human rights violations, including by “disseminating sectarian and inflammatory rhetoric” against specific religious minority groups.

For example, media campaigns have been launched to deflect from the massacres by calling Alawites “remnants of the regime” of Bashar al-Assad, calling the Druze “collaborators” with Israel, and calling the Kurds “separatists.”

In many videos posted online, Syrian government-affiliated fighters regularly refer to both Alawites and Druze as “pigs” before executing them in their homes and the street.

The SOHR stated as well that thousands of detainees – who have not had a proper trial or been allowed to appear before a judge – remain in prison.

Among the detainees are people arrested after the fall of Assad, and others who were arrested during raids or at security checkpoints. Many of these detainees have no clear charges against them and are being arbitrarily detained without due process, SOHR added.

On 5 August, SOHR reported that families of kidnapped civilians renewed calls for Syrian authorities to reveal the fate of young Alawite men taken from their homes without charges during the massacres on the coast in March.

The missing detainees are from the villages of Hmeimim, Bustan al-Basha, Al-Qabo, and Al-Sanober. Families told SOHR activists that armed groups stormed houses and took the young men to an unknown location without explaining the reasons or issuing official arrest warrants. Since then, Syrian authorities have provided no information about their fate despite repeated demands from their families.

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/32389
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 No.490900

File: 1754904552349.jpg ( 44.58 KB , 362x396 , August 10 2025 HTS Syria e….jpg )

Security footage from Syria hospital shows men in military garb killing medical worker

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Footage from security cameras at a hospital in the city of Sweida in southern Syria published Sunday showed what appears to be the killing of a medical worker by men in military garb.

The video published by activist media collective Suwayda 24 was dated July 16, during intense clashes between militias of the Druze minority community and armed tribal groups and government forces.

In the video, which was also widely shared on social media, a large group of people in scrubs can be seen kneeling on the floor in front of a group of armed men. The armed men grab a man and hit him on the head as if they are going to apprehend him. The man tries to resist by wrestling with one of the gunmen, before he is shot once with an assault rifle and then a second time by another person with a pistol.

A man in a dark jumpsuit with “Internal Security Forces” written on it appears to be guiding the men in camouflage into the hospital.

Another security camera shows a tank stationed outside the facility.

Activist media groups say the gunmen were from the Syrian military and security forces.

A Syrian government official said they could not immediately identify the attackers in the video, and are investigating the incident to try to figure out if they are government-affiliated personnel or gunmen from tribal groups.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not immediately cleared to speak to the media on the matter.


Syria’s Interior Ministry, in a statement posted by state-run news agency SANA, said Deputy Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Al-Tahhan was assigned to oversee the investigation “to ensure that the perpetrators are identified and arrested as quickly as possible.”

“We condemn and denounce this act in the strongest terms, and we affirm that the perpetrators will be held accountable and brought to justice to receive their just punishment, regardless of their affiliations,” the statement said.

The government last month set up a committee tasked with investigating attacks on civilians during the sectarian violence in the country’s south, which is supposed to issue a report within three months.

The incident at the Sweida National Hospital further exacerbates tensions between the Druze minority community and the Syrian government, after clashes in July between Druze and armed Bedouin groups sparked targeted sectarian attacks against them.

The violence has worsened ties between them and Syria’s Islamist-led interim government under President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who hopes to assert full government control and disarm Druze factions.

Though the fighting has largely calmed down, government forces have surrounded the southern city and the Druze have said that little aid is going into the battered city, calling it a siege.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which has organized aid convoys into Sweida, said in a statement on Saturday that one of those convoys that was carrying aid in the day before “came under direct fire,” and some of its vehicles were damaged. It did not specify which group attacked the convoy.

On Sunday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a statement expressing “deep concern” at the violence in southern Syria and condemning violence against civilians in Sweida. It called for the government to “ensure credible, swift, transparent, impartial, and comprehensive investigations.”

The statement also reiterated “obligations under international humanitarian law to respect and protect all medical personnel and humanitarian personnel exclusively engaged in medical duties, their means of transportation and equipment, as well as hospitals and medical facilities.”

It expressed concern about “foreign terrorist fighters” in Syria, while calling on “all states to refrain from any action or interference that may further destabilize the country,” an apparent message to Israel, which intervened in last month’s conflict on the side of the Druze, launching airstrikes on Syrian government forces.

https://apnews.com/article/syria-sweida-hospital-attack-42db9e8780b0172e1ba9a04aec8b0db8

Footage:
https://x.com/RTSG_News/status/1954628728446726588
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 No.490917

MintPress News: The Kurdish led SDF threaten retaliation against Syrian government aligned forces

Now, airstrikes from either Türkiye or Turkish backed forces hit SDF positions in Aleppo’s majority Kurdish areas.

The SDF has an armed force larger than that of Damascus.
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 No.490949

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1955760481379213324
Armed Clashes Erupt Between In Syria’s Raqqa between Kurdish & government forces

The militants loyal to the regime in Damascus are now clashing with the Kurdish-led SDF.

This could lead to a large civil war between both sides if it escalates. The SDF is more powerful.

Video included, though very dark
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 No.490957

File: 1755270411532.jpg ( 61.76 KB , 1080x608 , aleppo.jpg )

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1956122538737603045
Aleppo:
400 members of the 64th Division forces affiliated with the Jolani government were poisoned in one of the Darat Izza camps, triggering a large military alert in Aleppo countryside. If confirmed, it marks a serious breach, deliberate infiltration of supply chains or targeted contamination at the staging level, effectively taking a whole battalion’s combat effectiveness off the board without firing a shot.
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 No.490959

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1956035749104529585
BREAKING: The Israeli Military’s Northern Command Vows To Help The Lebanese Government Disarm Hezbollah

This statement comes, praising pro-US PM Nawaf Salam’s decision, as reports emerge that the IDF has set up mock Lebanese towns in Syria to train in.
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 No.491121

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1959749195297915290
BREAKING: Israel’s Channel 12 releases the upcoming Syria-Israel “security” agreement’s details

The following are part of the deal to be signed:

1) Syria cannot rebuild its army
2)Building an Israeli corridor to Sweida
3) Disarming south Syria

If true, full capitulation.
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 No.491128

File: 1756145242743.jpg ( 32.74 KB , 640x400 , jolani shake.jpg )

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/1960026198508994887
BREAKING: Syria admits it is in “advanced” normalisation talks with Israel

The following is Ahmed Al-Shara’a’s statement on how he seeks complicity in the Gaza genocide:

“When the time comes after trust with Israel is built, I will go public to explain why peace with Israel is a necessary matter, and I have enough credibility with the Syrians to convince them that this is an idea beneficial for them and for the region.”
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 No.491133

>>491128
>I have enough credibility with the Syrians
Must be a low bar after presiding over his own genocides against everyone who doesn't subscribe to his brand of Sunni Islam.
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 No.491134

>>491128
>>491133
But Wikipedia says:
Since breaking with al-Qaeda, he has sought international legitimacy by presenting a more moderate view of himself, renouncing transnational jihadism against Western nations, and focusing on governance in Syria while vowing to protect Syria's minorities.

Is Wikipedia lying?
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 No.491136

>>491134
>and focusing on governance in Syria while vowing to protect Syria's minorities.
lmao Wikipedia says this?
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 No.491137

That reminds me, here's another item from today:

Syria condemns new Israeli ‘military incursion’ in Damascus countryside
Syria’s foreign minister accuses Israel of violating a 1974 agreement to advance its ‘expansionist and partition plans’.

Syria has condemned a new “military incursion” by Israel in the southwestern Damascus countryside area outside the capital, calling it a “grave threat to regional peace”, in the wake of the two sides recently holding talks in Paris on de-escalating the conflict in southern Syria.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Israel had sent 60 soldiers to take control of an area inside the Syrian border around Mount Hermon. Israel did not immediately comment on the accusation.

The incident took place near a strategic hilltop that overlooks Beit Jinn, an area of southern Syria close to the border with Lebanon, the ministry said. Israel also arrested six Syrians there, according to residents in the area. The area is reportedly known known for arms movement by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and by Palestinian armed groups.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani accused Israel of violating the 1974 Disengagement Agreement by establishing intelligence facilities and military posts in demilitarised areas to advance its “expansionist and partition plans”.

Al-Shaibani made the remarks at an emergency meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) foreign ministers to discuss Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The latest Israeli military action in Syria follows deadly clashes in the Druze-majority Syrian province of Suwayda, where a week of sectarian violence in July killed 1,400 people before a ceasefire put an end to the bloodshed. Israel carried out strikes on Syrian troops and also bombed the heart of the capital, Damascus, under the pretext of protecting the Druze.



In the meantime, it was announced that Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa will speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, the first Syrian leader to do so in decades, as the nation seeks to rebuild and reengage with the international community after 14 years of ruinous civil war and the fall of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad.

In the more than 50 years that the al-Assad dynasty ruled Syria, neither Hafez al-Assad nor his son, Bashar, ever addressed the annual gathering of world leaders in New York.

“He will be the first Syrian president to speak at the United Nations since former President Nureddin al-Atassi (in 1967), and the first Syrian president ever to take part in the General Assembly’s high-level week,” scheduled for September 22-30, a Syrian official told the AFP news agency on Monday.

read more:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/25/syria-condemns-new-israeli-military-incursion-in-damascus-countryside
I know AJ is bad on Syria, but this is just the first place I saw this
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 No.491140

File: 1756217603384.jpg ( 281.85 KB , 948x888 , Ahmed al-Sharaa Wikipedia.jpg )

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 No.491148

>>491140
One of the most spook-made wiki articles I've ever seen.
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 No.491151

>>491140
Wish the old WhoColor script still functioned so we could analyze who all have been doing most of the edits to this article.
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 No.491160

Israel attacks Syria for second time in 24 hours
The attack on Wednesday consisted of a series of strikes on a former army barracks in Kiswa, southwest of Damascus, according to Syria’s state-run al-Ekhbariya TV.

Israel also attacked Kiswa on Tuesday, killing six Syrian soldiers.

We’ll have more details as soon as we get them.

https://aje.io/aijcb2?update=3911866
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 No.491228

https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1961924322374619528
Jolani is now killing Iranian journalists according to this.

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