Thursday, January 9, 2025

IDF continues targeting Syrian military capabilities in fresh attacks

The IDF on Thursday made a surprising announcement that it is continuing some attack missions against Syrian military capabilities and not merely holding onto buffer zones, which it seized in early December when the Assad regime suddenly fell.

In early December, the IDF announced it had massively attacked Syria's chemical weapons, air force, long-range missiles, navy, and other dangerous items to avoid them falling into the hands of the incoming Syrian regime led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani.

However, since then, it has been less public about any moves on the attack, mostly keeping a quiet defensive watch over the new buffer zone with Syria

Over the last month, the UN, the EU, the US, and others have started to open up new ties with Julani to potentially integrate Syria more deeply into the West's sphere of influence than Syria had been under Bashar Assad.  (Read More)