🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Senior U.S., Israeli and Syrian officials are expected to meet Thursday in an effort to reach security understandings regarding the situation in southern Syria.
It will be their first meeting since the Suwayda crisis and Israeli airstrikes on Damascus. U.S. Syria envoy Tom Barrack will chair the talks.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇵🇸 - Palestinian Islamic Jihad says that the group has lost contact with the group holding Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski 'after the IDF infiltrated and besieged the area'.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾 - The IDF says it carried out a nighttime operation in southern Syria, arresting arms dealers operating in the region.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾🇹🇷 - Turkey and Syria are discussing issues involving the SDF, Druze, Alawites, and understandings with Israel.
An Israeli delegation will soon travel to Baku to finalize Syria-related understandings. Israel did not pledge to halt its attacks on Syria and demands a demilitarized zone along the Syrian border.
- Al Hadath | @thewarreporterr
🇮🇱🇸🇾🇹🇷 - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Israel seeks to divide Syria, adding that 'Ankara views any such attempt as a national security threat' and would intervene.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir:
"The campaign against Iran is not over, 2026 will be a year of operational opportunities".
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The Iranian Judiciary says 75 prisoners escaped from Evin Prison in Tehran after it was targeted by Israel during the 12-day war.
Of those, 48 have either voluntarily returned or been rearrested.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾 — The IDF is preparing for an extreme scenario, including a potential attack similar to that of October 7, and even possible Bedouin revenge attacks on settlements near the fence in the Golan Heights.
There is growing concern within the Israeli security establishment that Iran-affiliated elements may attempt to infiltrate the buffer zone in the Golan Heights to carry out an attack against IDF forces.
— Israeli Walla website | @thewarreporterr
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾 - A White House official speaking to Axios described Israeli PM Netanyahu as a 'madman', saying, 'He bombs everything all the time. This could undermine what Trump is trying to do'.
A second U.S. official said that the Israeli bombing in Syria caught President Trump and the White House by surprise.
According to six U.S. officials who spoke to Axios, although a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted this week's escalation in Syria, the week ended with the White House significantly more alarmed about Netanyahu and his regional policies.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - Clashes are ongoing in Suwayda city between Bedouin tribal forces and Druze groups.
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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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🇺🇳🇸🇾 - A UN delegation which was set to evacuate trapped families from Suwayda to Daraa withdrew shortly before entering Suwayda, for unknown reasons.
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🇯🇴 - Jordanian Border Guard forces in the eastern region foiled an infiltration attempt along the border yesterday.
- Petra citing a Jordanian military source | @thewarreporterr
🇸🇾☀️ - SDF Spokesperson:
"It is impossible to hand over our weapons under the current circumstances".
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The IRGC released a statement warning the population about a rise in recruitment efforts by 'enemy intelligence agencies'.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸🇬🇧 - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy:
"We will consider further steps against Israel if we do not see that this war, and especially the suffering we see in Gaza, is on its way to an end".
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - An unidentified individual spray-painted Iranian flags on buildings in the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 - IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir:
"The struggle against Iran is not over yet".
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🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Israeli PM Netanyahu:
"Americans who do not want to support Israel mean that they do not support the US".
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🇮🇱🇸🇾 - The IDF has reportedly begun constructing a concrete wall on the Golan Heights due to fears of infiltration operations from Syria.
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🇸🇾🇸🇾 - 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
