yeah, some countries are not compatible with democracy (or not ready for it).
Then these people run to Europe and want to establish Caliphate and Shariah law here <facepalm>.

The Israeli army ‘destroyed’ the Syrian military fleet on Monday night with rockets fired from ships. So says Defence Minister Israel Katz on a visit to a military maritime base in the city of Haifa. The aim of the operation was to ‘pre-emptively eliminate strategic threats against Israel’, Katz said. AFP photographers were able to capture the damage in the port city of Latakia this morning. Israel has also carried out more than 300 airstrikes up there on Syria since rebels took Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fell, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported earlier today.

The organisation, which relies on an extensive network of sources across Syria, said it had recorded ‘almost 310 attacks’ by ‘the Israeli air force’ since the announcement of Assad's fall Sunday morning, with AFP journalists in Damascus reporting explosions this morning. Israel sees the upheaval in Syria as an opportunity to weaken that country militarily. Katz confirmed the attacks, though without giving the exact number. ‘The Israeli army has conducted operations in Syria in recent days to attack and destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the state of Israel,’ he said. The minister also warned Syria's new leaders not to ‘follow the Assad path’.

According to the OSDH, the attacks were aimed at ‘destroying the weapons still present in the warehouses and military units controlled by the forces of the former regime’, which were affiliated with Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah, the organisation said in a statement. According to the Observatory, major Syrian military bases, warehouses, airfields, anti-aircraft installations and radars have been destroyed. In Damascus, a scientific research centre was bombed. According to eyewitnesses, almost nothing is left of the centre.

Katz said this afternoon that he has effectively ordered the army to create a ‘sterile defensive zone’ in southern Syria to ‘prevent any terrorist threat’, without requiring a permanent Israeli presence on Syrian territory. At issue is the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel strenuously denies that it wants to advance towards Damascus in the process. The Syrian capital is less than 45 kilometres from the truce line between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights. That line was the front line at the end of the 1973 war, after which the narrow buffer zone was established.

The Israeli army denies that it is advancing towards the Syrian capital Damascus. Earlier today, international news agencies, based on anonymous Syrian sources, wrote that groups of Israeli forces had approached the capital. But according to army spokesmen, the units barely got past the buffer zone, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Spokesman Nadav Shoshani said the forces had taken a ‘limited number’ of points around the buffer zone. Israel says the capture of the buffer zone this weekend, which covers some 400 square kilometres, is temporary. Shoshani argues that the military presence in the region is necessary to ensure Israel's security now that rebels control Syria. The Israeli presence should prevent abandoned weaponry from reaching them, Shoshani argued.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israel faced criticism from Turkey, which has had a big finger in the country for years. Turkish-backed militant groups, united in the Syrian National Army (SNA), have long been operating across the border in northern Syria, fighting Kurdish forces in particular. Moreover, Turkey itself has occupied parts of northern Syria for years. Nevertheless, Turkey criticises Israel's action: ‘Israel once again shows that it is an occupying power,’ the Turkish foreign ministry wrote in a statement.

Turkey “strongly condemns” Israel advancing into Syrian territory, says Israel is displaying its “occupying mentality.” Hypocritical, as Turkey itself occupies large swaths of Syrian territory and is currently attacking the SDF to occupy even more.

Israel thought of Assad as the evil known. What now comes is an unknown evil, most likely. So they do the only reasonable thing they are left to do: trying to pull as many teeth out of the evil's jaw while it still is lying still in paralysis.

I would do the same.

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists of self-governing sub-regions in the areas of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, and Deir Ez-Zor. The region gained its de facto autonomy in 2012 in the context of the ongoing Rojava conflict and the wider Syrian civil war, in which its official military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has taken part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autono...nd_East_Syria#

Rojava is and will be supported by the West this region has majority of the oil of Syria do not think the US that on the moment protect those wells military retreat from Rojava this region has more than 10 years a Democratic administration this is stable the only trustworthy and stable region in Syria. A system of popularly elected administrative councils, allowing local communities to exercise autonomous control over their assets, while linking to other communities via a network of confederal councils. Decisions are made by communes in each neighborhood, village, or city. All are welcome to partake in the communal councils, but political participation is not mandated. Anybody saying they are not ... are misinformed! Rojava is open towards other political groups, religions and factions. It is flexible, multicultural, anti-monopolistic and consensus-oriented. Ecology and feminism are central pillars!

The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units is an all-female militia. The YPJ is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the armed forces of Rojava, and is closely affiliated with the male-led YPG. While the YPJ is mainly made up of Kurds, it also includes women from other ethnic groups in Northern Syria. These women and men have successfully fought ISIS with the air support of NATO. Israel's new foreign minister has said his country should reach out to Kurds and other regional minorities that are "natural" allies. “The attacks on the Kurds, as we saw yesterday in Manbij, must stop!” Sa’ar said. “There must be a commitment and actions by the international community to protect the Kurds, who fought bravely against ISIS. We have spoken with the U.S. administration and other countries on this matter.” Sa’ar’s calls for aiding the Kurds were echoed by former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who posted a message on ��, saying, “Israel must convince the US not to abandon the Kurds.”

Several Russian Navy ships have left the Syrian port of Tartus. This was reported by Reuters news agency on the basis of satellite images from Planet Labs. These show three Russian ships anchored about 13 kilometers from the coast. Russia has not yet responded to the ships' departure or explained the motivation for their departure. According to Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali, the new Syrian rulers must decide what to do with the Russian presence in the country. The still some seven thousand Russian military personnel in Syria are in the highest state of readiness.

:yep:

Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn’t drink his tea

The fall of Assad provides Israel with a prime opportunity to deal with the Syrian army altogether. The new rulers will soon be forced by the airstrikes to repurchase many heavy weapons when building a new armed force. Iraq had to do the same after 2003, when America destroyed many weapons from President Saddam Hussein's army during the invasion. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely monitors the fighting in the country, Israel has now destroyed ‘the major military sites’ in the country with its nearly 300 airstrikes. Israel said on Monday that the bombing campaign will last for days, but that it was not intended to interfere in the fighting in the country.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel was working to deal with its enemies ‘step by step’. He called Syria ‘the central part of Iran's Axis of Evil’. Netanyahu: ‘We are changing the face of the Middle East. The state of Israel is establishing its status as a centre of power in our region, as it has not been for decades. Whoever cooperates with us reaps many benefits. Whoever attacks us, loses much.’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Syria's new rulers that he will not allow a new Iranian presence in the neighbouring country. He said in a video that the rebels will pay a ‘heavy price’ if, like the previous regime, they decide to give Tehran free rein.

‘If this regime allows Iran to re-establish itself in Syria, approves the transfer of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah or if it attacks us, we will react forcefully,’ Netanyahu said. ‘Then what happened to the previous regime will also happen to this regime.’

^ precisely that :yep:

i don't agree what Israel is doing. They are just benefiting the chaos of a country who just lost there government, and is in a transit moment.

In the meanwhile, they just decided to move in deeper in Syria... Even the Golan Heights are annexed and condemned by the UN for years.
I understand Israel feels danger on there borders. But now Israel is basically invading a other countries sovereignty...

If this is accepted by the international community. then Egypt or Jordan can just send tanks across the Israeli border, and invade Israel

Egypt or Jordan, or any other nation that borders Israel can say this.
''We feel threatened by Israel expanding there forces, so we invade Israel too''


Oh no wait Israel can do everything what it wants and get away with it...

And Israel just destroyed part of the Syrian navy.

So can Syria now attack Israel out of self defence?
oh no wait they can't... Only Israel can attack other countries...

^ Syria was hostile to Israel since decades. ;)Its the transfer highway of Iran to supply Hezbollah in Lebanon with wepaons. The truce between Israel and Syria was uneasy at best. The new Syrian government will be at least as hostile to Israel as Assad has been.

The UN is since always absolutely biased.

If you want to complain, the n complain about Turkey havign invaded Syria many years ago anbd for the purpose to stay, which makes it different from Israel'S attacks now. And already now Turkey and its allied militias commit atrocities against the Kurds, whose resistence is being overwhelmed, they have just been driven out of one of their major cities in their territories, and now their unofficial capital is under attack by the Turks and their proxies.

Israel will leave Syrian territory again sooner or later. The Turks are there to stay - and to widen their influence, and with it their dream of a neo-osmanic sphere of power.

To be fair enough, every foreign power needs to leave Syria.
How can they hold a stable government, or even hold elections. when there is still fighting going on...

I feel removing Assad will leave a vacuüm for power, and they will all fight for the throne...

They removed the regime without having a replacement. And does the current rebel group who took over Syria represent all the Syrians ? I don't think so.
Who gave them the right to take control over Syria? They basically seized power with force... noting democratic about that.