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At least 28 people were killed by that celebratory gunfire, the Syrian health minister told Al-Arabiya news channel. Meanwhile, civilians broke into Assad’s palaces, ...
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [1] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south ...
NNA reported that four Israeli tanks entered the western side of Khiam. It also reported that Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of Markaba and Talloussah. [22] [23] [24] Footage released by Lebanese media showed Israeli soldiers in Khiam firing at several people while they were attempting to attend a funeral despite prior approval from the Lebanese army and UNIFIL to visit.
Map of the UNDOF Zone (in purple) Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel has occupied most of the Golan Heights region of Syria. After the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel and Syria agreed to a ceasefire which created the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which maintains a small buffer zone between the two countries.
United Nations Security Council countries on Wednesday called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider Middle East conflict after the killings of two militant leaders raised tensions.
The East Aleppo offensive (2024) is an operation launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces in December 2024 against the Syrian National Army (SNA) to regain control of territory that was lost during the Manbij offensive and to advance from Dayr Hafir into the Tishrin Dam area.
A HTS-commander stated his forces were less than 20 kilometers away from the southern gate of Damascus after capturing Al-Sanamayn. Syrian state media reported ballistic missile launches from the Damascus towards Daraa. [27] [28] On 7 December 2024, six civilians were killed by SAA shelling in Daraa. [5]
Israel began a ground invasion of Lebanon on 1 October 2024. The Israeli airstrike on Aitou took place following the Hezbollah drone attack on an IDF military barracks in Binyamina the previous day, after which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue striking Hezbollah "without mercy, everywhere in Lebanon – including Beirut".