Israeli military forces cross the fence to the buffer zone with Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, on Dec. 11, 2024. (Credit: Jalaa Marey/AFP)
BEIRUT — A new Israeli strike targeted Syria on Jan. 15, but this time, the target was not the assets of the former Syrian regime or pro-Iranian militias but rather the new Syrian authorities who ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad more than a month ago.The first-ever Israeli airstrike targeting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group which led that offensive, was carried out by an Israeli drone and killed three people in Ghadir al-Bustan, a village two kilometers from the buffer zone around the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and about 20 kilometers north of Jordan.The victims include two members of the Military Operations Command, the armed coalition of Syrian rebels led by the Islamist HTS, and a local official from Ghadir al-Bustan, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Israeli army claimed it had...
BEIRUT — A new Israeli strike targeted Syria on Jan. 15, but this time, the target was not the assets of the former Syrian regime or pro-Iranian militias but rather the new Syrian authorities who ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad more than a month ago.The first-ever Israeli airstrike targeting Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group which led that offensive, was carried out by an Israeli drone and killed three people in Ghadir al-Bustan, a village two kilometers from the buffer zone around the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and about 20 kilometers north of Jordan.The victims include two members of the Military Operations Command, the armed coalition of Syrian rebels led by the Islamist HTS, and a local official from Ghadir al-Bustan, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Israeli army claimed it had...