Israel SitRep: January 3, 2025
Today’s Issue: | IDF International Spokesman: Precision-Missile Factory in Syria Destroyed by IDF Was ‘Imminent and Active Threat’ | In IDF Operation in Beit Hanoun, Soldiers Eliminate Terrorists,...
Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center
Israel Secures its interests in Syria
Bashar al Assad’s regime fell in the early morning of December 8, withering away in the face of a mere 11-day onslaught by a coalition of opposition armed groups. Israel found itself caught off-guard by...
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: September 13, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF: Hamas’s Rafah Brigade Dismantled | IDF Finds Tunnel in West Bank, Near Israeli Towns and Highway 6 | Alleged Israeli Strike in Masyaf, Syria: Additional Details | IDF Soldiers...
Israel at War Situation Report
IDF Special Forces Conducted Daring Raid on Iranian Precision Missile Factory in Syria
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) special forces unit reportedly conducted a raid on an underground Iranian-built precision missile factory in Syria, three sources told Axios on September...
Flash Briefs
Syria Blames Israel for Strikes on Military Research Center
The Syrian regime’s official news agency reported multiple Israeli strikes on September 8 in the area of Masyaf, where the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC)...
Flash Briefs
Israel SitRep: September 9, 2024
Today’s Issue: | Hezbollah Drone Lands Direct Hit on Nahariya Apartment Building; Airstrikes in Syria Kill 16 | IDF Makes Arrests in Overnight West Bank Counterterror Operation; Allenby Bridge Reopened...
Israel at War Situation Report
A greatly expanded arsenal means this is not the Hezbollah of 2006
Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel on Sunday. That attack followed a July 4 assault in which the terror group fired approximately 200 projectiles and over 20...
Op-eds
Israel’s Defense Minister Reveals Syrian Military Sites Used to Produce Advanced Weapons for Iran
At a Jerusalem Post conference in New York on Monday, Israel’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, revealed a map displaying Syrian arms manufacturing facilities used to produce advanced weapons for Tehran...
Op-eds
Israel Reveals Iranian Missile Production Sites in Syria
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz displayed a map on Sept. 12 that shows the Syrian location of 10 “production facilities for mid- and long-range, precise missiles and weapons” that Iran has “provided to Hezbollah and Iranian proxies.” He said Tehran is also “working to build missile and weapon industries in Lebanon and Yemen” as part of its campaign to destabilize the region.
Flash Briefs
Why Assad crossed Obama’s red line
He calculated, correctly, that he could commit war crimes with impunity
Op-eds
Assad’s Horror, and Those Who Enable It
Horrific images from the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria are once again circulating online. The scene of this gassing is the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Both the...
Op-eds
Syria Chemical Weapons Sanctions Send Clear Message
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday des...
Policy Briefs
Israel Reportedly Strikes Multiple Targets in Syria in Recent Days
By David Barnett The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck at least one target inside Syria between Thursday evening and Friday morning....
Op-eds
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Congressional Testimonies
Breaking the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nexus
Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade...
Op-eds
U.S. Policy in Syria
Written Testimony for the Record Contributors to this testimony included: Mark Dubowitz (FDD), Reuel Marc Gerecht (FDD), Tony Badran (FDD), Ammar Abdulhamid (FDD), Jo...
Congressional Testimonies
Towards a Post-Assad Syria
Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...
Press Releases
The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians
The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians: Policy Options for U.S. Response A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation...