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Israel could respond to any Iranian attack on it from Syria by toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, an Israeli security cabinet minister said on May 7, hinting that Assad himself may be targeted for assassination.

A number of military positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime were hit late on April 29 by rockets in Syria's Hama and Aleppo provinces, according to the regime's official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 

Russian lawmakers who met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian President was in "good mood" after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on Syria in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack a week ago.

The United States is "locked and loaded" to strike again if Syria's President Bashar al-Assad's government again uses chemical weapons, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the Security Council on April 14. 

Russia and Iran, both allies of the Bashar Al-Assad regime in Syria, strongly condemned the joint strikes carried out in Syria by the United States, France and Britain on April 14.

The international community has blasted the Syrian regime in Syria over claims of use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta, with the U.S. President Donald Trump calling Bashar Al-Assad "an animal."

The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad alone accounts for 80 percent of the assets seized by French customs authorities last year as a four-year probe into his eye-popping assets in Europe winds up.

The US-led coalition carried out strikes in “self-defense” against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, leaving an estimated more than 100 pro-regime personnel dead, the U.S. military said Feb. 7.

Syria's armed opposition launched an operation Monday against Assad regime controlled regions around Turkmen Mountain in Latakia governorate, said its commander, Anadolu Agency reports.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Jabal al-Islam Commander Zahir Abu Usama said Russia is "intensely attacking Idlib".

The US Army will remain in Syria until the jihadist group Islamic State is finally defeated, as well as to resist Iranian influence and ultimately help with the overthrow of Bashar Assad, said US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.