Mohammad Sıo
14 July 2025•Update: 15 July 2025
ISTANBUL
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on the outskirts of the countryside of Suwayda city in southern Syria on Monday, Syrian media said.
The state news agency SANA said Israeli fighter jets carried out two airstrikes near the town of Al-Mazraa and a third strike in the vicinity of Kanaker.
Material damage was reported, but no information was yet available about casualties.
The Israeli army, for its part, claimed that it hit several tanks in the area between al‑Mazraa and Sami’ as they moved towards Suwayda in southern Syria.
It claimed that the strikes were aimed at “preventing their arrival to the area.”
“The IDF (army) will not allow the establishment of a military threat in southern Syria and will operate against it,” it said.
Early Monday, Syrian security forces launched a security operation in Suwayda to restore order after deadly clashes between Druze and Bedouin groups, which have killed at least 30 people and injured over 100 others.
Local sources told Anadolu that the fighting began when rival armed groups seized vehicles from one another, prompting a rapid escalation into heavy exchanges involving medium and heavy weapons.
Despite repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime late last year, Syria’s new government has refrained from threatening Israel.
Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia in December, ending the Baath Party regime, which had been in power since 1963.
A new transitional administration led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa was formed in Syria in January.
