Syrian security forces are beginning to move into the restive province of Suwayda after days of communal fighting in which hundreds of people have been killed,the country’s interior ministry says.

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, encouraged by U.S. messaging that Syria should be governed as a centralized state, eight sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is on the brink of collapse. Israel's two ultra-Orthodox parties - United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and Shas - have announced plans to leave Netanyahu's coalition.

Israel carried out a series of airstrikes Wednesday on Syria’s Defense Ministry in Damascus, causing injuries in an escalating conflict with the new Syrian government, according to an Israeli military statement and Syrian state television.

U. S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee reportedly penned a letter threatening to declare Israel “no longer welcoming” to Christian organizations, according to a leaked copy of the alleged letter published in Israeli media on Friday.

The Israeli leader has been alienating his allies and is spiraling toward early elections.

A day later, Interior Minister Moshe Arbel responded in a letter obtained by the Times of Israel, defending his ministry’s conduct and expressing surprise at Huckabee’s broad circulation of his complaints, which were copied to top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.

The House Judiciary Committee is accusing the Biden-Harris administration of funneling taxpayer dollars to anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel that took place before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

Government memos on pro-Palestinian protesters sent to Marco Rubio said the authority he used to strip their visas had never been used and would likely face scrutiny.