Overview
- Clashes around the strategic Tal al-Hadeed heights in western Sweida killed at least one Druze fighter and one security officer and wounded nine others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
- In northern Aleppo province, government-affiliated fighters exchanged fire with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces near Manbij and Deir Haffar, straining a U.S.-brokered integration agreement.
- Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s government has struggled to assert control since ousting Bashar al-Assad, facing skepticism from political opponents and minority groups over its Islamist-leaning rule and allied militias.
- The Israeli military conducted a ground operation in Quneitra province bordering the Golan Heights, detaining suspected weapons traffickers and seizing arms from multiple locations.
- Aid convoys continue to enter Sweida under a tense truce, but residents are demanding full reopening of supply routes as shortages persist and displacement tops 145,000.