"A confrontation, possibly even a small-scale military one, may occur between Israel and Turkey," one expert told Newsweek.

Hamas says it will return the bodies of four dead Israeli hostages on Thursday in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

In an address Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Syria’s new rulers should demilitarize the Quneitra, Daraa and Suwayda provinces.

The deadly strikes came as Hamas confirmed an agreement, under Egyptian mediation, to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the bodies of four Israeli hostages.

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, issued a statement on Wednesday condemning "the criminal Israeli aggression on Syrian territory, as well as the occupation's ground incursion into the countryside of Daraa and Quneitra.

Qatar-funded Al Jazeera provided a platform to two Hamas officials on its panels at the media organization’s recent annual conference. One speaker, Osama Hamdan, praised the October 7 massacre in Israel and the “philosophy of resistance.

Hezbollah has more to lose from a renewed war with Israel than anyone and, unlike Hamas, has no hostages to pressure Israel to hold back.

There is concern for Syria, its security, stability, and unity. This concern is justified for several reasons. Despite my firm conviction that Syria is off today, after the criminal Bashar al-Assad has fled,

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it has struck a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored in Syria’s Al Qardahah. In a statement on Tuesday, the IDF said that the decision to strike military infrastructure in Al Qardahah was taken due to

The attacks in southern Syria are part of a new policy aimed at protecting what Israel calls its “security zone” in the region. Syria’s new government has condemned that policy.