Daily Briefing July 10: Day 643 – IDF executes ground ops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode. To begin the program we …

Top US, Russia diplomats discuss Ukraine, Syria and Iran on ASEAN sidelines

Rubio and Lavrov ‘confirmed their mutual desire to find peaceful solutions to conflicts’, Russian Foreign Ministry says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have held rare face-to-face talks on the sidelines of an …

Syria faces major challenges in efforts to integrate US-backed SDF into military - analysis

Trump’s push for Israel-Syria peace gets major backing as activist brings message to Jerusalem

New York Post contributor Douglas Murray joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss how President Donald Trump's removal of Syrian sanctions will impact the region as the president urges Saudi Arabia to join Abraham Accords. NEWYou can now …

Syria’s Long Road to Recovery

Aleppo, Syria — Mohamed Zair sat in a neon-lit recovery ward, a thick bandage wrapped around his abdomen and a cast on his leg. A week earlier, in late January, he and a friend were severely wounded in a car crash. His friend, still unconscious, lay in a  …

Israel and Syria Should Prioritize Security Cooperation

“I want to swim in Lake Tiberias,” then-Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad told U.S. President Bill Clinton in March 2000, just months before his death. It was a striking remark during the final stretch of Israeli-Syrian peace talks—negotiations that had once …

Erdogan: living conditions’ improvement in Syria is essential for the return of refugees

Ankara, SANA- Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, affirmed Thursday that his country is exerting its tireless efforts to ensure security and stability in Syria, noting the importance of enhancing social and economic welfare as a basis for the return …

Syria's prominent Shia cleric shot dead amid growing HTS-led violence

An influential Shia cleric has been shot dead in central Syria, raising concerns about growing sectarian violence under the controversial rule of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group over the Arab country.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights …

Syria talks collapse: Damascus rejects Kurdish decentralization

Shafaq News – Damascus Talks between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) have ended without progress, a senior Kurdish official told Shafaq News, citing Damascus’s continued rejection of a …

Man gets probation after marrying 15-year-old in Syria, conceiving baby in Malta

A man who married a 15-year-old girl in Syria and conceived their first child in Malta a year later has been found guilty of participating in sexual activities with a minor. He was spared jail but handed a three-year probation order after the court said it …