Military infrastructure belonging to the Syrian military unearthed by the IDF. January 9, 2025.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)
JERUSALEM POST | Published January 9, 2025
Since December, the IDF has been less public about any moves on the attack, mostly keeping a quiet defensive watch over the new buffer zone with Syria.
The IDF on Thursday made a surprising announcement that it is continuing some attack missions against Syrian military capabilities and not merely holding onto buffer zones, which it seized in early December when the Assad regime suddenly fell.
In early December, the IDF announced it had massively attacked Syria’s chemical weapons, air force, long-range missiles, navy, and other dangerous items to avoid them falling into the hands of the incoming Syrian regime led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani.
However, since then, it has been less public about any moves on the attack, mostly keeping a quiet defensive watch over the new buffer zone with Syria.
Over the last month, the UN, the EU, the US, and others have started to open up new ties with Julani to potentially integrate Syria more deeply into the West’s sphere of influence than Syria had been under Bashar Assad.
Top UN and some EU officials have pushed hard to remove all sanctions on Syria as soon as possible and to inject foreign investment and support into the country to help build Julani’s new government and rescue the country from 14 years of civil war and destruction.
However, the US this week has walked a middle-of-the-road line, removing some sanctions on Julani and his allies while leaving some decisions about other sanctions to the incoming Trump administration.
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SOURCE: www.m.jpost.com
RELATED:: IDF finds Syrian military vehicle full of ammunition near buffer zone
A Syrian BMP-1 IFV captured by IDF troops in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued by the Israeli military on January 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL | Published January 9, 2025
IDF troops operating in southern Syria have located a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle packed with ammunition, the military says.
The find was made by troops of the 474th Golan Regional Brigade, who are operating in a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border and in some areas just beyond it.
Alongside the IFV, the military says the Golani Brigade found additional caches of weapons, which were captured or destroyed.
The IDF says it seeks to prevent the weapons from reaching “hostile elements” that could harm troops and Israeli civilians in the Golan.
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SOURCE: www.timesofisrael.com
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