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At approximately 1850 EST on March 28th, 2024, local Syria media and eyewitnesses reported airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria which were immediately attributed to Israel. However, the Israeli government has not claimed responsibility for the strikes. Air defense systems were activated; however, no aircraft or munitions were reportedly intercepted. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) was the first body...

The United States Treasury Department Officer of Foreign Assets Control has issued a new round of Counter Terrorism Designations relating to Syria. In this round, an additional six persons, eleven businesses, and two ships have been sanctioned. According to the U.S. State Department, today's sanctions are calibrated specifically against Captagon manufacturing and sales, Syrian government sanctions evasions, and mining...

As this publication reported this morning, the IRGC has confirmed that one of its officers, along with several other people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir Ezzor Syria on March 25th, 2024. The World Health Organization has now confirmed that one of its employees was also killed in the strike. The announcement reads below: On behalf of the...

Update (0635 EST, 26 Mar 24): Al Jazeera has reported that Israel is most likely responsible for the airstrike, not the U.S., which has killed nine including a "foreign national militia leader" and injured 30. These casualty numbers come from the Surian Observatory for Human Rights. At approximately 1915 EST, several explosions were heard in Deir Ezzor, Syria. Local media immediately...

The IDF has announced that it had carried out a series of strikes against "two military infrastructures on the Syrian front , where the terrorist organization Hezbollah was operating." The IDF added that it "considers the Syrian regime responsible for everything that happens on its territory and will not allow attempts that will lead to the establishment of the terrorist...