As Islamist-led forces consolidate their hold over Syria after the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Israel is reportedly carrying out military operations to secure and destroy chemical, biological, and other lethal arsenal scattered across the country.
The Israel Air Force hit around 300 targets since Assad fled the country to prevent the abandoned military arsenal from getting into the hands of terrorist organizations, the French news agency AFP reported Tuesday.
Israeli troops allegedly entered abandoned military bases near Damascus to secure the WMD and other lethal stockpiles, the Israeli media reported, citing Russian and Arab news outlets. “Reports in the Lebanese Mayadeen and Russian Sputnik news said that Israeli forces had entered Syrian military bases some 12 miles northeast of the capital, Damascus, and along the Qalamun Mountains that separate Lebanon from Syria,” the Israeli TV channel i24News wrote Monday.
The UK-based Sky News described an overnight Israeli airstrike:
Huge airstrikes lit up the horizon with orange explosions last night in northeastern Syria, says Middle East correspondent Ali Bunkall, in Qamishli.Some 40 minutes of secondary explosions followed, as ammunition dumps were destroyed in what Syrian security sources say are Israeli strikes.Israel claims it doesn’t want these weapons falling into the hands of extremist groups.”Judging by the size of the explosions, they were probably rockets that were blowing up,” says Bunkall.
The BBC reported late night Monday that a “research centre with suspected links to chemical weapon production was among the sites hit,” citing Syrian sources.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday night targeted the ousted regime’s chemical stockpiles and weapon storage facilities in the Mediterranean port city of Latakia.
“Reports in Syria claim that the Israeli Air Force bombed the Latakia port a short while ago,” The Times of Israel reported Monday night. “According to the reports, the strikes targeted Syrian naval assets belonging to the ousted Assad regime.”
“The strikes have hit advanced missile storage sites, air defense systems, weapon production facilities, and chemical weapons sites,” the news outlet added. “The strikes have also taken out planes, helicopters and tanks that belonged to the Assad regime army.”
Israel was deploying infantry and armored vehicles to enforce a buffer zone aimed at securing the border with Syria following Assad’s falls.
The troops were “deployed in the buffer zone between Syria and the Golan Heights to prevent any infiltration at specific control points,” i24NEWS TV channel reported on Sunday.
The IDF’s “engineering, infantry, and armored forces” were “stationed along Israel’s border with Syria to secure the area,” the military disclosed Monday evening.
The Iranian regime is in a meltdown over the spectacular fall of the client Syrian regime.
The top commanders of the Islamic Guard (IRGC), the Mullah regime’s military and foreign terrorist arm, were blaming each other for the disaster that wrecked Iran’s multi-billion ‘Axis of Resistance’ project created to encircle Israel and dominate the Arab Middle East, the British newspaper Telegraph reported Monday.
In the wake of the October 7 terror attack, Israel effectively dismantled Hamas, Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah terrorist groups, all members of the Iranian axis. The falls of Assad severs Iran’s supply trail to these terrorist outfits and denies them a safe haven.
The UK-based Telegraph reports:
A furious blame game is unfolding among Iran’s armed forces over the fall of Bashar al-Assad, The Telegraph has learned.Officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said commanders of the elite military force were blaming each other “in angry terms” for the collapse of Assad’s regime and the loss of Iranian influence in the region.“The atmosphere is like something between almost punching each other, punching the walls, yelling at each other and kicking rubbish bins. They are blaming each other, and no one is taking responsibility,” one official from Tehran told The Telegraph.“No one ever imagined seeing Assad fleeing, as the focus for 10 years had been only on keeping him in power. And it was not because we were in love with him, it was because we wanted to maintain proximity to Israel and Hezbollah.”Iran spent billions of dollars propping up Assad’s regime after intervening in the Syrian civil war in the mid-2010s.
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