Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, ...

a Turkish security official said that the operation was initiated in response to Kurdish efforts to connect the Tall Rifat enclave with wider areas under their control in north-eastern Syria.

A bridge damaged by an Israeli strike near the Syrian village of Tall Al-Nabi Mando, October 28, 2024. LOUAI BESHARA/AFP During the two months of the war in Lebanon, Syria became an extension of ...