Syria War Live News: Al-Assad in Russia; Search for Detainees at Sednaya Prison
NEWS, 9 Dec 2024
Stephen Quillen and Umut Uras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service
8 Dec 2024
- Rescue teams and the relatives of forcibly disappeared people in Syria are searching for their loved ones at the notorious Sednaya prison in Damascus.
- Russian state media reports that ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow and has been granted asylum after Russia’s Foreign Ministry said earlier that he stepped down and left the country.
- Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli forces have seized a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights following the opposition’s takeover in Syria. Israel has also carried out dozens of air strikes across Syria.
- The dramatic turn of events comes after opposition forces in Syria seized several strategic cities in a lightning offensive that began on November 27.
9 Dec 2024
Israeli Forces Seize More Territory in Syria
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has announced that Israeli forces are seizing “additional points” in the buffer zone in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, according to YNet News.
The outlet cited Katz as saying that he instructed the Israeli military on Sunday night to “to act immediately in Syria” and that soldiers “continued to seize additional points in the buffer zone” during the night.
Katz also said he instructed the Israeli military “to create a security zone free of heavy strategic weapons and terrorist infrastructures that could threaten Israel”.
The move aims “to thwart the renewal of the weapons smuggling route from Iran to Lebanon through Syria and at border crossing points”, he was quoted as saying.
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Bashar al-Assad, Israel, Kurds, Middle East, Regime Change, Syria, Turkey
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Al Jazeera is hardly a reliable source of news. It used to give an alternative to western lies.