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2025-03-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israel attacks military site in northwestern Syria; no casualties reported
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[IsraelTimes] IDF confirms strike, says it targeted ‘infrastructure’ at former Assad regime military facility in Qardaha, near port city of Tartous
Israel carried out an Arclight airstrike
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in Syria on Monday evening, targeting a military facility near the city of Tartous, in the country’s northwestern coastal region.
Alternate spelling Tartus. The strike was first reported by Syrian media, with the state-run SANA news agency saying there were "airstrikes carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft on the surroundings of Tartous city," and that there were no reports of casualties at the time.
"Civil defense and specialized teams are working to confirm the location of the targets," SANA added.
The IDF later confirmed carrying out an airstrike in northwestern Syria, saying that the attack targeted a military facility belonging to the former Syrian regime in the town of Qardaha, east of Latakia, where weapons were being stored.
"Due to the latest developments in the area, it was decided to strike infrastructure at the site," the army said, adding that it continues to monitor Syria for potential threats to Israel.
Qardaha, the hometown of deposed president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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, is located in Latakia province, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of the city of Tartus.
Last Tuesday, the IDF said it carried out airstrikes targeting military sites containing weapons in southern Syria. At least two people were killed by a strike on one of the sites, the headquarters of a military unit southwest of Damascus.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month that southern Syria must be completely demilitarized, warning that his government would not accept the presence of the forces of the new Syrian Islamist-led government near its territory.
Even before Assad’s fall, during Syria’s civil war, which broke out in 2011, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes in the neighboring country, mainly on government forces and Iranian-linked targets.
The same day Assad was ousted, Israel announced that its troops were entering a UN-patrolled buffer zone that separated Israeli and Syrian forces on the strategic Golan Heights.
The IDF described its presence in southern Syria’s buffer zone as a temporary and defensive measure, though Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that troops will remain deployed to nine army posts in the area "indefinitely."
Participants in Syria’s national dialogue conference last week affirmed their rejection of "provocative" statements by Netanyahu and urged the international community to pressure Israel to stop any "aggression and violations," condemning "the Israeli incursion into Syrian territory."
Israeli leaders have also publicly warned Syria’s government not to harm the Druze in southwestern Syria, and have regularly spoken with foreign leaders about the importance of protecting them, along with Syria’s Kurds.
Most recently, Israel over the weekend threatened action after unrest in a Damascus suburb, home to members of the Druze religious minority.
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Israeli raids target several sites near Tartous Governorate, with continuous flying of Israeli occupation aircraft
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday launched an airstrike on a military site in northwestern Syria, stating that the target belonged to the ousted Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
“The IDF struck a military site where weapons belonging to the previous Syrian regime were stored in the area of Al Qardahah,” the IDF said in a statement posted on X.
Qardaha, in Syria’s Latakia province, is not only the hometown of the Assad family, which ruled Syria from 1970 to 2024, but is also considered the heartland of the Alawite religious sect.
The IDF further explained that following “recent developments in the region, it was decided to strike military infrastructure at the site.”
For its part, the state-run Syrian news agency (SANA) reported on Monday that an Israeli aircraft struck the city of Tartous, which is also located in Latakia, but around 65 kilometers south of Qardaha.
SANA said that “an Israeli occupation aircraft carried out strikes on the outskirts of Tartous,” adding that no casualties were recorded. Syrian civil defense teams and “specialized teams are working to confirm the locations that were targeted,” the state-run agency added.
Meanwhile, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Monday corroborated SANA’s report, stating that “a violent explosion rocked Tartous port after unidentified aircrafts, probably Israeli, flew over” the city.
SOHR added that locals in the region received text messages on their mobiles urging them to “stay away from the terrorists’ locations.”
At the time of writing this report, it remained unclear whether both Qardaha and Tartous were struck separately or if one of them was targeted in one operation.
Following a swift offensive, a coalition of opposition groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 8 toppled the regime of former Syrian dictator Assad, who fled to Russia with his family.
Since Assad’s ouster, Israel has significantly ramped up its military operations in Syria, targeting military assets, weapons depots, and strategic installations.
Israeli forces have also advanced into areas in southern Syria along the border with the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, while Tel Aviv is rejecting calls for withdrawal and insisting that its operations are against what it perceives as threats in the region.
SOHR reported on Monday that, since the beginning of 2025, Israel has launched 17 airstrikes and two ground attacks on Syria, “damaging and destroying 21 targets” including “arms and ammunition depots, [military] headquarters and centers.”
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