AVOIDING “NEW CONFRONTATIONS”
Syria’s de facto chief, Ahmad al-Sharaa, stated on Saturday that Israel was utilizing false pretexts to justify its assaults on Syria, however he was not desirous about partaking in new conflicts as his nation focuses on rebuilding.
Sharaa – higher often called Abu Mohammed al-Golani – leads the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that swept Assad from energy final Sunday, ending the household’s five-decade iron-fisted rule.
Since then Israel has moved right into a demilitarised zone inside Syria that was created after the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, together with the Syrian facet of the strategic Mount Hermon that overlooks Damascus, the place its forces took over an deserted Syrian army put up.
Israel, which has stated that it doesn’t intend to remain there and calls the incursion into Syrian territory a restricted and non permanent measure to make sure border safety, has additionally carried out a whole lot of strikes on Syria’s strategic weapons stockpiles.
It has stated it’s destroying weapons and army infrastructure to forestall them from being utilized by insurgent teams that drove Assad from energy, a few of which grew from actions linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State.
