DAMASCUS/ISTANBUL

Israeli aircraft were flying above Suwayda province in the south of Syria, state-run Alikhbaria Syria TV reported Tuesday.

The channel said in a post on American social media company X that there was “an overflight of Israeli occupation aircraft over Suwayda,” without giving details about its objectives or if any military strikes had occurred, as in previous instances.

The flights were shortly after Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaibani affirmed in posts on X his government’s commitment to protecting all components of Suwayda, rejecting attempts to place the Druze community in “a framework of exclusion or marginalization under any pretext.”

Al-Shaibani’s remarks followed a trilateral meeting in Amman with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi and Washington’s envoy to Damascus Tom Barrack.

Since the fall of the Assad regime last December, Israel has targeted military installations, vehicles and ammunition sites in Syria multiple times. Recently, it intervened in Suwayda on the pretext of “protecting the minority Druze,” which had clashes with Bedouin tribes, and it also struck Damascus.