Portraits of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on March 26, 2024. (Credit: Louai Beshara/AFP)
While not new, strikes attributed to Israel in Syria have become increasingly frequent since the start of the war in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. As recently as Wednesday evening, airstrikes attributed to Tel Aviv targeted an "Iranian automobile factory" in the Homs region as well as an area housing anti-aircraft defense systems and government troops in the vicinity of Hama, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).More than in the past, these attacks now seem to send an increasingly pressing warning to the government in Damascus. "For years, Israel has been sending Assad the following message: 'If you move, you're dead.' Assad is only complying with it," Thomas Pierret, a researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim Worlds, a CNRS laboratory, stressed on X, referring to the fact that the Syrian...
While not new, strikes attributed to Israel in Syria have become increasingly frequent since the start of the war in Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. As recently as Wednesday evening, airstrikes attributed to Tel Aviv targeted an "Iranian automobile factory" in the Homs region as well as an area housing anti-aircraft defense systems and government troops in the vicinity of Hama, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).More than in the past, these attacks now seem to send an increasingly pressing warning to the government in Damascus. "For years, Israel has been sending Assad the following message: 'If you move, you're dead.' Assad is only complying with it," Thomas Pierret, a researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim Worlds, a CNRS laboratory, stressed on X, referring to the fact that the...
