Iran had provided crucial support to Assad throughout Syria’s nearly 14-year civil war, which erupted after he launched a violent crackdown on a popular uprising against his family’s decades-long rule.

The U.S. military says two U.S. Navy aviators ejected over the Red Sea. Both were recovered alive, with one suffering minor injuries in the incident.

Cyprus stands ready to help eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles and to support a search for people whose fate remains unknown after more than a decade of war, the top Cypriot diplomat said Saturday.

A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv overnight, leaving 16 people injured by shattered glass, the Israeli military said Saturday, days after Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who have been launching missiles in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Federal authorities say Mohammad Reza Nouri, an officer in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, is in custody in Iraq, where he has been convicted by an Iraqi court for his role in the killing of American Stephen Troell.

The Biden administration says it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led the ouster of President Bashar Assad. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham remains designated a foreign terrorist organization.

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad’s ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold talks with the country’s new leadership and seek information on the whereabouts of missing American journalist Austin Tice.

The U.S. had more than doubled the number of American troops in Syria to counter the Islamic State group before the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government almost two weeks ago, the Pentagon said Thursday.

The village, on the western edge of Syria’s southern Daraa province, is outside of a buffer zone in the Golan established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria. Israel seized a swath of southern Syria shortly after Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted by rebels on Dec. 8.

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply. The rights group was the latest among a growing number of critics to accuse Israel of genocidal acts. Israel vehemently denies the allegations.