Iran Guards Deploy Aircraft Detecting Radar in Western Syria

An air force intelligence checkpoint in Qarfa town, in Daraa, after it was completely evacuated. (Ahrar Houran Gathering)
An air force intelligence checkpoint in Qarfa town, in Daraa, after it was completely evacuated. (Ahrar Houran Gathering)
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Iran Guards Deploy Aircraft Detecting Radar in Western Syria

An air force intelligence checkpoint in Qarfa town, in Daraa, after it was completely evacuated. (Ahrar Houran Gathering)
An air force intelligence checkpoint in Qarfa town, in Daraa, after it was completely evacuated. (Ahrar Houran Gathering)

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps factions set aircraft-detecting radar in Syria’s al-Mazare area, around al-Mayadeen city in the eastern sector of the Deir Ezzor countryside.

According to sources from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Iranian military experts have monitored the process of fixing and operating the radar.

The area is strategically vital for its geographic altitude that overlooks al-Mayadeen city and regions held by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and coalition forces east of the Euphrates River.

Two weeks ago, the IRGC’s Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas militia withdrew from its military position near the al-Shibli area on the outskirts of al-Mayadeen. Lebanese Hezbollah fighters were deployed in their place.

Prior, the IRGC had transported a number of weapons and ammunition from their caches in the al-Mazare area to houses in residential neighborhoods in the city, raising fears among the locals that they would be used as human shields.

Meanwhile, the central committees in the southern Daraa region reached a new agreement, after meeting with the Russian-delegated officer, Assad Allah, to cease military operations in the Daraa al-Balad neighborhood and the governorate’s countryside.

The regime forces had closed all roads in Jasim city, in the northern countryside of Daraa, coinciding with the arrival of military reinforcements of about 200 soldiers to al-Mohs hill west of the city, according to the Ahrar Houran Gathering.

The Russian forces and the Central Committee in Houran reached an agreement on Saturday to displace 132 wanted persons to northern Syria. However, several of the included people refused to leave Daraa to any other area, according to informed sources.

Local sources in Daraa said the regime forces insisted on displacing several opposition fighters to stop the military campaign.

The opposition website Ahrar Houran Gathering stated that the regime’s security committee gave the central committee until Sunday morning to respond to this condition.

The agreement also includes the entry of Eighth Brigade forces of the Fifth Corps, supervised by the Russian troops, to several locations in Daraa.



Israel’s Katz Warns of More Lebanon Strikes if Hezbollah Not Disarmed

The rubble of a collapsed building hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike is pictured in the Qaem neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on June 6, 2025. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
The rubble of a collapsed building hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike is pictured in the Qaem neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on June 6, 2025. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
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Israel’s Katz Warns of More Lebanon Strikes if Hezbollah Not Disarmed

The rubble of a collapsed building hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike is pictured in the Qaem neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on June 6, 2025. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
The rubble of a collapsed building hit by an overnight Israeli airstrike is pictured in the Qaem neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on June 6, 2025. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Friday that Israel will keep striking Lebanon until it disarms Hezbollah, a day after Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs.

"There will be no calm in Beirut, and no order or stability in Lebanon, without security for the State of Israel. Agreements must be honored and if you do not do what is required, we will continue to act, and with great force," Katz said in a statement.

On Thursday, Katz in a statement praised the Israeli air force for “perfect execution” of the strikes and said Israel will “continue to enforce the ceasefire rules without any compromise.”

He said Israel holds the “Lebanese government directly responsible for preventing violations of the ceasefire and all terrorist activity" against Israel.

The strikes marked the first time in more than a month that Israel had struck on the outskirts of the capital and the fourth time since a US-brokered ceasefire agreement ended the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah in November.

Israel posted a warning ahead of the strikes on X announcing that it would hit eight buildings at four locations.

The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel began on Oct. 8, 2023 when the Lebanese group began launching rockets across the border in support of Hamas in Gaza. Israel responded with airstrikes and shelling and the two were quickly locked in a low-level conflict that continued for nearly a year before escalating into full-scale war in September 2024.

Katz said Friday he was responding directly to condemnation by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who a day earlier called the strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs a "flagrant violation" of the November ceasefire, carried out "on the eve of a sacred religious festival" -- the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.

Aoun said the strikes were "irrefutable proof of the aggressor's refusal... of a just peace in our region"