🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Druze groups have reportedly targeted a Syrian Internal Security Forces convoy that entered to implement the agreement, forcing it to withdraw toward Daraa.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - The Syrian Presidency:
"We warn against any violation of the ceasefire, which we will consider a breach of sovereignty".
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🇺🇸🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey:
"We call upon Druze, Bedouins, and Sunnis to put down their weapons and together with other minorities build a new and united Syrian identity building peace and prosperity with their neighbors".
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🇸🇾 - Syrian air defense systems are engaging unidentified drones over Latakia Governorate.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - A high-ranking Iranian political official told Press TV:
"Iran has intelligence indicating that the U.S. seeks negotiations only to use diplomatic initiatives as a cover for military preparations, not for peace.
If that is the case, we have no interest in wasting our time or anyone else's — we would prefer to focus our energy on war".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾 - Washington continues to support Syrian President al-Sharaa and is pressuring Israel to halt its interventions in order to reach a specific arrangement that will end the current crisis.
- Sky News Arabia | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Israel and Syria are holding indirect talks to restore calm in Suwayda.
- Levant 24 citing sources close to the government | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾 - A UN convoy in Daraa, southern Syria, has reportedly been stopped by Bedouin tribal forces.
According to reports, the convoy was en route to Suweida, which led the tribal forces to deny it passage.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇩🇪 - German Chancellor Merz told Israeli PM Netanyahu that 'there must be no steps toward annexing the West Bank'.
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🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾 - Iran is smuggling weapons to Hezbollah in small vehicles through Syria, after previously using trucks for smuggling.
- Wall Street Journal | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾🇮🇱 - An Israeli political source told Israel Hayom:
"In light of the ongoing instability in southwestern Syria, Israel has agreed to allow limited entry of Syrian Internal Security forces into the Sweida Governorate for the next 48 hours".
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Clashes are ongoing between Bedouin tribes and Druze groups.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Syrian Internal Security forces are preparing to enter Suwayda.
- Syria TV | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇸🇾🇸🇾 - The U.S. State Department reiterated its Level 4 travel warning for Syria, urging Americans to leave the country via Jordan due to ongoing armed conflict.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribes have reached the gate of the Suwayda Governorate center.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Despite the announced ceasefire, clashes have renewed in Sweida.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Syrian Internal Security forces have begun deploying in Suwayda.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey, announces that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾 - A senior US official told his Israeli counterpart:
"You can't embark on a new war every few days. We're trying to lower the flames and reduce the number of wars and fronts, and you are doing the opposite".
- Al Monitor | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇸🇾🇱🇧 - Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:
"In the name of 'Israel's security', no living being in the region can raise its head. In the name of 'Israel's security', there is no corner they don't demand to search or threaten to bomb.
In the name of 'Israel's security', no one is allowed to say 'no to Israel'".
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 - Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:
"We will not hand over our weapons to Israel and will defend ourselves if attacked".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 - David Barnea, the director of Israel's Mossad spy agency, visited Washington this week seeking U.S. help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Gazans.
Barnea told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya had expressed openness to receiving large numbers of Gazans. Witkoff was non-committal, and it's not clear if the U.S. will actively weigh in on this issue.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Rakan Al-Khudair, Head of the Southern Syrian Tribes Assembly:
"If the Syrian state is unable to maintain security, the tribes will take matters into their own hands".
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🇸🇾🇸🇾🇩🇪 - Germany says it will support the Syrian government 'if Damascus prevents religious or ethnic persecutions'.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇪🇬 — Egypt is under pressure to play a more active role in the Abraham Accords.
Cairo has received direct messages from Washington linking continued economic aid and international institutional support to the country's commitment to new regional alliances, including improved public relations with Israel.
— Al-Araby Al-Jadeed citing diplomatic sources | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾 - A large convoy of over 30 UN military vehicles reportedly departed from Al-Rafid in the Quneitra countryside, southern Syria, heading toward an undisclosed location.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has ordered the transfer of an aid package worth 2 million shekels to the Druze in Sweida, which will include food packages, medical equipment, and medicines.
- Israeli Channel 12 | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Two U.S. intelligence sources have confirmed that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was indeed injured during one of Israel's attacks on Iran last month.
During an interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this month, Pezeshkian claimed Israel attempted to assassinate him by bombarding an area in which he was participating in a meeting. However, it remains unclear if he was intentionally targeted.
- CBS News | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Bedouin tribal forces seize areas in western Suwayda countryside and reach the city entrance.
- Al Jazeera | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇳🇸🇾🇨🇳🇮🇱🇨🇳 - Chinese Representative to the UN Security Council:
"Israel's attacks on Syria are condemned, and Israel must cease all military strikes.
Syrian authorities must take action against all terrorist groups, including the Turkistan Islamic Party".
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