Israel escalated its air assaults on Syria, targeting key military facilities in Damascus while claiming to protect the country’s Druze minority—a justification critics see as a cover for ongoing occupation and destabilization.

An Israeli airstrike on Syria’s military headquarters in Damascus was caught during a live broadcast, sending a visibly shaken news anchor diving for cover.

Druse militiamen have been fighting with Bedouins in the Sweida Province, and Syrian government forces and the Israeli military are getting involved.

Defense Minister Israel Katz called on the Syrian regime to withdraw its forces from the Sweida area and stop its operations against the Druze in the area and threatened that Israel's response would escalate.

The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime. Asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle said the Home Office had "worked to lift the pause as soon as there was sufficient information to make accurate and well-evidenced determinations".

Syrian Interior Ministry officials said Tuesday that the country’s Internal Security Forces, in coordination with the Ministry of Defense,

Syrian army begins withdrawing heavy military equipment from Suwayda to hand over city’s neighborhoods to internal security forces - Anadolu Ajansı