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In post-Assad era, Hezbollah’s shrinks to cells, smugglers, and cheap rockets - analysis

The Iranian proxy group once helped sustain Assad’s war machine; now it stands accused of running deniable operations with cheap hardware.

|ByWASEEM ABU MAHADI/THE MEDIA LINE
Hezbollah and Syrian flags are seen fluttering in Fleita, Syria, 2017
A rabbi lights the menorah during a tribute for the victims of a mass shooting during a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, in Sydney, Australia, December 20, 2025.

Bondi Beach vigil, Army Radio closure - December 21, 2025

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise. 

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Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2025.

US House votes to repeal 'Caesar' sanctions on Syria

The US House votes to repeal Syria sanctions, requiring progress in security, minority rights, and non-aggression toward neighbors, including Israel.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN, REUTERS
Abu Ali al-Khair, a resident of Jableh, inspects his damaged house, as Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa grapples with the fallout from reported mass killings of Alawite minority members, in Jableh, Syria March 12, 2025.

Syria opens trial against suspects in mass killing of Alawite minorities, first since Assad's fall

The bloodshed marked one of the worst eruptions of violence since Sunni Islamist rebels led by Sharaa toppled Assad, a member of the Alawite minority, in December 2024.

|ByREUTERS

Tunisian president says he wants ambassador in Syria

Tunisia reinstated a limited diplomatic mission to Syria in 2017, in part to help track more than 3,000 Tunisian militants fighting in Syria.

MARCH 11, 2023ByREUTERS
Tunisia's President Kais Saied gives a speech at the government's swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace outside the capital Tunis, Tunisia February 27, 2020

Saudi foreign minister: Syria could return to Arab League, but not yet

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said that isolating Syria was not working and that dialog with Damascus was needed.

MARCH 8, 2023ByREUTERS
SUPPORTERS OF Syrian President Bashar Assad celebrate after he won a fourth term in office, in Damascus on May 27

Syria's Assad meets senior Arab lawmakers in Damascus

Legal representatives for the Iraqi, Jordanian, Palestinian, Libyan, Egyptian, and Emirati houses of representatives traveled to Syria to meet with Assad.

FEBRUARY 26, 2023ByREUTERS
IRAN’S PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, earlier this month.

What are the implications and challenges of the Syrian regime making inroads in the Gulf?

Syria's Assad is making outreach to Turkey via Moscow now that it knows China and Moscow can't help to rebuild Syria fast enough.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Syrian President Bashar Assad shake hands as they meet in the Kremlin

Jordan’s foreign minister visits Syria in bid for relief diplomacy

A Syrian return to the Arab fold and an easing of sanctions appear possible in the wake of the devastating earthquake, experts say.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByDAOUD KUTTAB/THE MEDIA LINE
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi meets with Syrian President Bashar al Assad in Damascus, Syria, February 15, 2023.

US urges Syria to allow earthquake aid to get to people in need

Washington called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to grant immediate access to humanitarian assistance to all those in need, without exception.

FEBRUARY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
A White Helmet volunteer stands among rubble, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Harem, Idlib, Syria, February 10, 2023.

Turkey leader acknowledges earthquake relief problems as death toll passes 12,000

Erdogan faces crescendo of criticism over response • ‘Lack of capabilities’ in war-hit Syria quake zone too

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByREUTERS
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, February 8, 2023.

Turkish foreign minister says he could meet Syrian counterpart early February

 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in early February, not next week

JANUARY 12, 2023ByREUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visit the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria December 11, 2017

Protesters storm governor's office in southern Syrian city, two killed in clashes

This is a rare occurence in Sweida province, which has mainly been spared from the violent unrests of the last decade in Syria.

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByREUTERS
Smoke rises near a building as people take part in a protest in Sweida, Syria, December 4, 2022, in this picture obtained by Reuters.

Syria denies kidnapping or holding US journalist missing for 10 years

Biden said Washington knew "with certainty" that Tice had at times been held by Syria's government.

AUGUST 17, 2022ByREUTERS
Marc and Debra Tice, parents of US journalist Austin Tice, talk during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon December 4, 2018.