Military Actions

Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has accused Israel of heightening regional tensions and fabricating external threats to distract from the “horrifying massacres” in Gaza, during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the Doha Forum on Saturday.

Al-Sharaa claimed Israeli leaders frequently “export crises to other countries” under the guise of security, arguing that the state has used the October 7 attacks as justification for wider military actions. “Israel has become a country that is in a fight against ghosts,” he said.

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, Israeli air and ground operations in Syria have intensified, …