The government of Bashar al-Assad has received aid from several nations both within and outside of the Middle East, such as Russia and Iran ... Israel, which has a northern border with Syria ...

For Iran’s rulers, Assad’s fall and the collapse of their Syria plans come at a precarious time. They have been weakened by Israel’s decimation of the Islamic Republic’s key proxies ...

Israel is likely concerned that any power vacuum could be problematic, with alarm bells being raised over Turkey’s role in Syria rather than that of Iran. A soldier from the US-led coalition ...