Syria crisis overshadows US, Israel victory lap on Iran
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Washington is watching with growing alarm as Israel’s redoubled military intervention in Syria risks fueling a sectarian-tribal conflict, which it ostensibly aimed to prevent.
Trump administration officials have urged Israeli leaders to halt the airstrikes after Israeli warplanes bombed the Syrian army headquarters in Damascus earlier this week, in a warning to the nascent government of Ahmed al-Sharaa.
The spiraling conflict between Syrian Bedouin tribes and members of the country’s Druze religious minority in Suwayda poses a major test for post-Assad leaders in Damascus. It also exposes cracks in the Trump administration’s attempts to foster a unified post-war transition under Damascus’ leadership.
