Daraa

So, like, you're just, you're just gonna be super careful about what you strike, and you're not gonna strike anything actually significant.

Not only that, but each village had their own loyalties to their villages and to their provinces, especially down south, like Daraa and Suwayda.

Like, those guys, some of them are Druze, which is not part of the other religious groups around there.

They're defending their own place, especially Suwayda, from everybody.

Literally every other entity in the area is trying to attack Suwayda.

And the Syrian Civil War started in Daraa when the, the two kids went out there and started protesting, and then people got slaughtered in the town.

So, like, Daraa had its own view.

So, like, even if you arm them, they're not defending future Syria, they're defending their, their town, or their city, or their province.

Over the course of 2015 to the current period, the Syrian Army and allied militias, including Hezbollah, regained control over the entire Lebanese border.

However, Syria's border with the Golan Heights and with Jordan in the Daraa region remain under the control of terrorist groups.

With specific regards to the Golan region, how interesting it is to note that jihadist militias such as Al-Nusra and the Islamic State control sections of territory directly opposite and connected to the Israeli border.

The Israeli regime has never once complained about the presence of these Salafist jihadist groups on its border and has only ever clashed with these militias on extremely rare occasions.

This was obviously lost when Vimeo stole my money and erased six years' worth of films.

We had four months' worth of Syria updates and an hour Q&A.

Basically, we walk through Syria of 2018, retaking Daraa, retaking Homs, Deir ez-Zor, and ISIS being relegated to Idlib.

Al-Tanf is already counting inventory and is poised to move to the Iraqi side of the border.

You can look at the protests that Sweden had.

I mean, Sweden, for example, because geographically speaking, there's Daraa and then there's Sweden, right? They're really close.

There's a border between them.

Sweden was assisting people of Daraa a lot.

There has been an initiative called the Milk Initiative where Assad regime imposed a siege on Daraa.

And there is no more baby, there's no more infant milk, powdered milk for infants.

And people from Sweden actually risked their lives to go and deliver milk there, right? So this is where it gets kind of complicated.

So this sentiment of me wanting to go and assist my brothers was also highly present in Hermon villages.

Its assessment indicates that while the threat remains limited for now, it is likely to become a significant feature in future Hezbollah operations against Israel.

Also in Syria, President Ahmed Alshara conducted a surprise visit to Daraa, a city with a Sunni Muslim majority that geographically separates Israel and IDF forces from the Druze mountain in Er Suwada.

Domestically, a religious Zionist tension point has emerged within the IDF.

At least seven religious soldiers from the Jivati Brigade's Rotem Battalion were sent to military prison after refusing to board an armoured personnel carrier with a female paramedic due to religious objections.

Uh, Syria engaged in months of negotiations with Israel in 2025, trying to resolve the situation, and despite repeated claims of progress, no agreement was ever finalized.

Israel, for its part, continues to cross into southwest Syria daily beyond the buffer zone and intermittently attacks villages and detains civilians living in the Daraa and Quneitra governorates.

No negotiations are confirmed to be taking place any longer between Israel and Syria, and Katz's comments suggest the status quo is, as with the Golan Heights, just a permanent military occupation.

And if you look at the current military map situation, Israeli troops have now taken up positions near the Khutna and Barika dams in southern Syria.

He's a cousin of Assad.

He was the former head of political security in the city of Daraa, where the repression that he meted out to protesters is widely credited as basically lighting the spark of the Syrian revolution.

So it was very symbolic.

He was tried.