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At least three militants affiliated with Syria’s ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime have been killed and several others injured, when fierce fighting broke out between the forces and fighters from a local group in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a. - REPORTS
September 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Fuel protests reveal the economic risks threatening Syria’s fragile transition - analysis
Syria hit by widespread protests over rising fuel prices | The Jerusalem Post
The protests have affected most of the country. This includes incidents in Aleppo in the north, Dara’a in the south, Deir Ezzor on the Euphrates River, and Hasakah.
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September 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Analysis: Syria's fuel crisis is connected to the broader energy price crisis due to the conflict with Iran. As such, the Iran conflict may be roiling Syria at a time when Damascus can least afford this.
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Syria hit by widespread protests over rising fuel prices | The Jerusalem Post
The protests have affected most of the country. This includes incidents in Aleppo in the north, Dara’a in the south, Deir Ezzor on the Euphrates River, and Hasakah.
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September 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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#Israel forces advance into village of Jamlah in Dara'a Province in southern #Syria, before pulling back towards occupied Golan Heights

On Wednesday, #Netanyahu visited Israeli soldiers occupying south, a visit condemned by Syrian government as “provocative and blatant violation” of sovereignty
September 10, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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3 missiles reportedly intercepted in skies over eastern Dara'a Province in southern #Syria

Attack aimed at #Jordan, where missiles have reportedly been intercepted over the city of Mafraq

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September 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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#Israel forces advancing further into Dara'a Province in southern #Syria

10+ #Israel military vehicles seen near the village of Jumla in the western suburbs of Dara'a city, supported by reconnaissance aircraft overhead
September 1, 2026 at 5:21 AM
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Ein syrisches Gericht hat den ehemaligen Leiter des Geheimdiensts, Atef Najib, zum Tode verurteilt.
Der Folterknecht von Dara’a
Nils Fleischmann: Todesurteil gegen syrischen Geheimdienstchef
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August 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Israeli Occupying Forces Shoot Two Children In Syria The incident occurred in the country side of Dara’a as Israel now locks down a road near the Jamla village. Damascus meanwhile continu...
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July 20, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Deshalb hätten Sie den Artikel auch lesen sollen. Nur den Titel zu lesen ist noch nicht mal oberflächlich.

"Siedler eines staatlich mitfinanzierten Vereins haben im Juli eine Farm mit 140 Kühen in der Pufferzone westlich von Dara’a etabliert. [...] Das Militär soll dem Plan zugestimmt haben."
July 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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🚨 This week's TRACWatch is out now.

▪️ AFN's expansion into Europe
▪️ JNIM's nationwide offensive across Mali
▪️ Jamaat-ul-Ahrar's split from the TTP
▪️ New Dara’a (Hauran) Tribal calls for global resistance

▪️ Plus emerging developments from Somalia, the UK & Greece.

Read here: conta.cc/4wyXByP
July 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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@syriadirect.bsky.social's @walid-alnofal.bsky.social on how Israel – even though it isn't expelling residents of Quneitra and west Dara'a (yet) – is making life for them constricted and untenable: syriadirect.org/a-repellent-...
‘A repellent environment’: How Israel is reshaping life in southern Syria
Israeli incursions and violations are making life increasingly untenable in southern Syrian border villages, as residents curtail their movements, suspend reconstruction and investment, and consider l...
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July 3, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Najib wird vorgeworfen, während seiner Zeit als Brigadegenereal in der syrischen Provinz Dara‘a schwere Kriegsverbrechen an der syrischen Zivilbevölkerung begangen und Schießbefehle auf Teilnehmende der Massendemonstrationen im Jahr 2011 erteilt zu haben. 2/6
May 11, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Najib wird vorgeworfen, während seiner Zeit als Brigadegenereal in der syrischen Provinz Dara‘a schwere Kriegsverbrechen an der syrischen Zivilbevölkerung begangen und Schießbefehle auf Teilnehmende der Massendemonstrationen im Jahr 2011 erteilt zu haben. 2/6
May 11, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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EFTA00946028 | EFTA00946030 Kuwait: The parliament in Kuwait has also been dissolved in a decree issued by the emir on October 7th. Elections will take place in early December, which will be the second time elections are held in less than a year. 2012 started with elections and the seating of an Islamist majority parliament in February. The constitutional court closed this parliament down in June, ruling it was elected based on illegal procedures. The earlier (2009) parliament was recalled, but never met because it lacked a quorum. The opposition revived the claims of corruption that had originally closed this parliament down in late 2011. The opposition is pleased with the emir's call for new elections, seeing it as an opportunity to regain their briefly held positions. It is actively supporting the electoral procedures used in early 2012, which brought them a majority, and is closely monitoring the situation for any inkling of procedural changes. Israel/Palestinians: Cross-border incidents between Gaza and Israel, and Lebanon and Israel, and the ongoing trouble with extremists in the Sinai demonstrated the high level of tension in the region in recent weeks. But it was the lack of consensus on a government budget, not security, which led Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to call for early elections in the beginning of 2013. Netanyahu is in a strong political position to face the voters, so the timing favors his re-election. While the Israeli-Gaza cross-border shelling has been seen before, it was the downing of a drone-like aircraft over northern Israel that drew significant attention. Hezbollah claimed ownership of what appears to have been an Iranianbuilt aircraft. Syria: Concerns are escalating over the conflict in Syria's spillover effects, especially since cross-border artillery fire between Syria and Turkey began on October 2nd. Turkey accused Syria of starting the attacks when mortar rounds killed five Turkish civilians. Many regional commentators interpret the widening circle of violence, including its spillover into neighboring countries, as being in Syria's interest. Meanwhile, fighting continues in Syria, especially in Aleppo, Homs, and Dara'a. Large swaths of these cities have been destroyed by the government's aerial bombardments. Reports continue to name Saudi Arabia and Qatar as the providers of weapons to Syrian rebels, but the arms flows have apparently not included any heavy weapons for fear they may end up in the hands of radical groups. Car bombs and suicide attacks continue. One such attack in the city of Aleppo earlier this month killed an estimated forty people. The al-Qaida affiliated labhat Al Nusra claimed responsibility. In Damascus, car bombs and suicide attacks are targeting security and government facilities. The ongoing violence overshadows any attempt at a negotiated resolution. The latest idea to emerge, offering a future role in a new government to the sitting Syrian Vice President Farouq Al Shara'a, appears farfetched at this juncture, when the Assad government remains confident in its position and hold on power. The opposition is unlikely to go along with this idea unless the Assad family gives up control of the military. Central and South Asia Afghanistan: President Karzai is once again blaming Pakistan for Afghanistan's security problems, while both countries share the problem of continuing extremist attacks. In his most recent outcry on October 4th, Karzai also critiqued the NATO International Security Assistance Force, claiming that it is not doing enough to go after the extremist threat coming from Pakistan. Although Afghanistan and Pakistan are discussing a possible bilateral strategic partnership, the simmering Afghan distrust of the Pakistani authorities is ever present. This latest outcry is perhaps the result of recent cross-border incidents, which have led each country to decry the other, and of Afghan legislators' perceptions of Karzai as an easy target for criticism for even considering a Pakistani-Afghan strategic partnership. The bottom line is that Karzai is letting off steam with these statements, given the constant Western pressure to improve governance and fight corruption, and equally intense domestic pressure to deliver on security for the Afghan people, an objective which remains elusive. Pakistan: Pakistan is reeling from the latest attack in a Taliban campaign to silence moderate voices. The Taliban shot a 14year-old girl education and peace activist, Malala Yousafzai, in the head in Swat, Pakistan, on October 9th. She is now in a serious condition in a hospital in the United Kingdom. The Taliban attack and claim that she was targeted for "promoting secularism" drew Pakistani and global outrage. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar called the attack a wake-up call for Pakistan. In other political activity, cricket star turned politician Imran Khan and American peace activists organized a march to the tribal areas of Waziristan on October 6th to draw attention to what they claim is the significant, debilitating psychological impact of US drone attacks targeting terrorists on the local civilian community. The Pakistani authorities, outlining the dangers ahead in Waziristan, blocked the road with shipping containers and turned the marchers back before nightfall. In a separate, surprising development, it appears that the Supreme Court and the executive branch may EFTA00946030
May 8, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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EFTA00933028 | EFTA00933044 April 7, 2012 -- ISN'T it interesting that the Arab awakening began in Tunisia with a fruit vendor who was harassed by police for not having a permit to sell food — just at the moment when world food prices hit record highs? And that it began in Syria with farmers in the southern village of Dara'a, who were demanding the right to buy and sell land near the border, without having to get permission from corrupt security officials? And that it was spurred on in Yemen — the first country in the world expected to run out of water — by a list of grievances against an incompetent government, among the biggest of which was that top officials were digging water wells in their own backyards at a time when the government was supposed to be preventing such water wildcatting? As Abdelsalam Razzaz, the minister of water in Yemen's new government, told Reuters last week: "The officials themselves have traditionally been the most aggressive well diggers. Nearly every minister had a well dug in his house." All these tensions over land, water and food are telling us something: The Arab awakening was driven not only by political and economic stresses, but, less visibly, by environmental, population and climate stresses as well. If we focus only on the former and not the latter, we will never be able to help stabilize these societies. Take Syria. "Syria's current social unrest is, in the most direct sense, a reaction to a brutal and out-of-touch regime," write Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, in a report for their Center for Climate and Security in Washington. "However, that's not the whole story. The past few years have seen a number of significant social, economic, environmental and climatic changes in Syria that have eroded the social contract between citizen and government. ... If the international community and future policy makers in Syria are to address and resolve the drivers of unrest in the country, these changes will have to be better explored." From 2006-11, they note, up to 60 percent of Syria's land experienced one of the worst droughts and most severe set of crop failures in its history. "According to a special case study from last year's Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, of the most vulnerable Syrians dependent on agriculture, particularly in the northeast governorate of Hassakeh (but also in the south), `nearly 75 percent ... suffered total crop EFTA00933044
May 8, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Syria opens first public trial of former Assad regime official, Atef Najib
Syria’s new government opens public trial of former Assad regime official | The Jerusalem Post
Syria has opened its first public trial for a former Assad regime official, Atef Najib, marking a shift toward accountability. The trial focuses on crimes committed in Dara’a and Damascus.
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April 26, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Syria begins trial of Atef Najib, the first former Assad regime official to stand trial for war crimes. A major moment in post-Assad Syria.
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Syria’s new government opens public trial of former Assad regime official | The Jerusalem Post
Syria has opened its first public trial for a former Assad regime official, Atef Najib, marking a shift toward accountability. The trial focuses on crimes committed in Dara’a and Damascus.
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April 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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One protester in Dara’a told a local TV channel that if the law adopted by the Israeli Knesset is not retracted, “missiles will not only come from Iran, the Syrian border will ignite and the missiles will come from here”.

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‘The Missiles Won’t Only Come from Iran’: Syria Rises Up in Support of Palestine
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April 5, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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BREAKING: A Second Syrian Armed Group Declares War On Israel

An armed group in the town of Zakiyah, near Dara’a, have declared Jihad against the Israeli occupation forces in southern Syria.
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April 2, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Syrian Protester In Dara’a Says “The Syrian Border Will Ignite” Mass demonstrations all across Syria now, as at least 2 groups declare war on Israel. All in support of Palestinian prisoners.
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April 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Syrian Protester In Dara’a Says “The Syrian Border Will Ignite” Mass demonstrations all across Syria now, as at least 2 groups declare war on Israel. All in support of Palestinian prisoners.
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April 2, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Syrian Protester In Dara’a Says “The Syrian Border Will Ignite”

Mass demonstrations all across Syria now, as at least 2 groups declare war on Israel. All in support of Palestinian prisoners.
April 1, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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EFTA02035760 | EFTA02035762 Haiti: While Hurricane Sandy dominated world news when it hit the northeast United States, much less attention was devoted to the storm's impact on Haiti, where it struck a few days earlier on October 25th. The storm killed approximately 60 people and damaged or destroyed more than 27,000 homes. But more worrying than the direct and immediate impact are the consequences in terms of food insecurity and a likely increase in cholera cases, in a country that has not recovered from the 2010 earthquake and tropical storm Isaac in August 2012. The United Nations estimates that up to 1.8 million people are at risk of malnutrition due to the combined effects of drought, tropical storm Isaac in the north, and Hurricane Sandy in the south on crops and food prices. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is considering an emergency revision of its funding appeal to accommodate increased needs. Haiti remains a country with chronically weak institutions and overstressed, limited resources—and one that already witnessed widespread food riots in 2008. Middle East ads: Representatives of the Syrian opposition met in Doha in early November under intense diplomatic pressure to restructure and form new broad-based, united opposition leadership. Moaz al-Khatib, a former cleric and a trained geologist, was elected as president of what is now called the Syrian Coalition for the Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. In press reports, the Syrian opposition claims the politically difficult restructuring will bring them more money and, notably, aims. Spillover from the Syrian crisis continues. Turkish authorities, preferring to have broad political cover for strengthening border defenses, are seeking a NATO deployment of Patriot missiles. In a new development, the crisis has now hit the occupied Golan Heights. After a number of stray mortar shells landed in the Golan in the past week, Israeli tanks struck a Syrian artillery launcher on November le. This development reinforces the view that the Syrian government is aiming to regionalize the conflict, to divert attention from itself and from calls for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Fragmentation is increasing in Syria. Kurdish areas in the northeast are beyond the control of the government and the opposition. Dara'a in the south is under the opposition's control and Deir azZour in the east has only nominal government presence. The opposition recently seized an oil field in Deir az-Zour, a possible indication of a strategic shift in the conflict. EFTA_R1_00548435 EFTA02035762
March 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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EFTA02004226 | EFTA02004228 The wrath of the protesters is aimed at the new "aristocracy" that has recently risen in Syria. In Dara'a, the protesters chanted against President Assad's cousin, Rami Makhlouf, who epitomizes the emerging aristocracy. Makhlouf owns Syriatel, the country's cell-phone network, and symbolizes the intertwining of wealth and power. President Assad remains reticent about meeting the demands for reforms. He seems to believe that he ought not tread the paths of Presidents Ben Ali of Tunisia or Mubarak of Egypt, whose concessions only increased the demands of protesters for more reform. President Assad ordered the release of prisoners that had been arrested during recent demonstrations, and, in a speech to his new Cabinet, declared that the emergency law would be rescinded in less than a week. But in return, the President wants an end to unsanctioned protests and he instructed the Interior Ministry to be firm in implementing the law. Some in Syria consider this a step in the right direction; some of these people, however, also believe the President did not go far enough. They argue that without revoking Article 8 of the Constitution, which stipulates that the Baath Party is by law the ruling party in Syria, democracy will be difficult to realize. The Alawite community is concerned that some protesters are associating it with Assad's regime. One incident took place in Homs during a funeral procession for a member of the protest movement who was killed by the security forces. But such incidents seem isolated at this stage and protesters appear to be trying to overcome the sectarian divide. It is worth noting that Iran does not consider the events in Syria part of what it calls the "Islamic Awakening," but rather as an American-Zionist conspiracy against a country which supports the resistance. Jordan Amman witnessed a peaceful demonstration by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and secular elements; but in the city of Zarqa the situation was different. Hundreds of Salafis clashed with supporters of King Abdullah; many were injured and about seventy Salafis were arrested. The leadership of the Kingdom is facing multiple challenges, the latest of which is coming from radical Salafis. Followers of Salafism—theologically an extension of Wahabbism—are now joining the protest EFTA_R1_00502508 EFTA02004228
March 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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EFTA02004226 | EFTA02004227 Faqi as a candidate to the post of Secretary-General of the Arab League. A former Egyptian diplomat and a classic Arab nationalist, Al Faqi is currently Deputy Speaker of the Arab Parliament. He previously chaired the Arab and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Egyptian Parliament, and is a former Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Permanent Representative of Egypt to the Arab League. The Youth movement has expressed serious reservations about the nomination of Al Faqi to the post, due to his close association with President Mubarak. Libya Prominent opponents of Muammar Qaddafi are talking of the prospect of a divided Libya. The longer the military and political stalemate, the greater the possibility that Libya would be divided into two states: Barciah (Cyrenaica)—i.e.. East Libya—and Tripolitania and Fezzan—i.e., West Libya. Tripolitania and Fezzan constitute more than 50 percent of Libyan territory and their residents remain loyal to Qaddafi. Sheikh Mohamed Ben-Ghalbon, head of the Libyan Constitutional Union (an opposition group), declared that Libya was already divided between revolutionary East and Qaddafi-ruled West. Ben-Ghalbon said that the city of Misrata was paying the price of its aspirations to freedom. Many powerful tribes not far from the besieged city refrained from helping embattled Misrata out of loyalty to Qaddafi. He expressed fear that NATO was leaving Qaddafi the necessary leeway to retake the city. Qaddafi's truncated state would be able to export oil from Zawiyah; while the rebels would export oil from the port of Marsa el-Hariga, near the city of Tobruk. The seesaw battles of the war would concentrate around Brega, Ras Lanuf, and the rich oil fields in their vicinity. Syria Protests were widespread after Friday prayers and took place in several cities, including Latakia, Homs, the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, and the predominantly Kurdish city of Qamishli in the northeast. Thousands marched in the southern city of Dara'a, where this time the security forces remained invisible. But security forces and "ghost" fighters attacked protesters in the village of Bayda, a suburb of Banias. For the first time Damascus also witnessed a large demonstration, egged on by restive suburbs. On Monday, Syrian security forces dispersed a demonstration by students of Damascus University, in solidarity with victims of the protest movement in Dara'a and Banias. According to the Kurdish Committee for Human Rights (RASED), protests also erupted at the University of Aleppo. If the protest movement takes root in universities it will generate momentum for even larger demonstrations that the Syrian govemment will find difficult to quell. EFTA_R1_00502507 EFTA02004227
March 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM