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This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. (Hezbollah Media Department via AP)
May 14, 2016, 9:44 am
Hezbollah: Top commander was killed in shelling by extremists
Group says Islamists behind Mustafa Badreddine's death; newspaper earlier claimed he was slain by guided missile used by advanced nations
By TOI staff and AFP
Members and supporters of Lebanon's Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah carry the coffin of Mustafa Badreddine, a top Hezbollah commander who was killed in an attack in Syria, during his funeral in the Ghobeiry neighborhood of southern Beirut on May 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)
May 13, 2016, 9:14 pm
Iran FM Zarif extends condolences to Hezbollah after terror chief killed
Iranian media blames Israel for explosion that killed Mustafa Badreddine in Damascus; Hezbollah to announce those responsible by Saturday
By TOI staff and AP
(From L-R) Lebanese Hezbollah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem, head of the Hezbollah Executive Council Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, and the brothers, Annan Badreddine and Hassan Badreddine, of top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine who was killed in an attack in Syria, receive condolences in a southern suburb of Beirut, on May 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)
May 13, 2016, 3:19 pm
Hezbollah mourns ‘great jihadi leader,’ stays mum on cause of blast that killed him
Shiite terror group pays tribute to its commander in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, killed in Damascus attack initially blamed on IDF
By Bassem Mroue
This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. (Hezbollah Media Department via AP)
May 13, 2016, 8:44 am
Hezbollah announces probe into killing of top Syria commander attributed to Israel
Shiite group: Unclear who was behind blast at Damascus base; ex-Israeli security chief: Whoever did it, Mustafa Badreddine's death is good for us
By TOI staff, AP and AFP
Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine, purportedly assassinated by an Israeli strike near Damascus on May 13, 2016. (Twitter screenshot)
May 13, 2016, 4:24 am
Top Hezbollah commander in Syria killed by Israel, Lebanese TV says
Mustafa Badreddine, wanted by US and Special Tribunal on Lebanon, said assassinated in airstrike near Damascus airport
By TOI staff
Syrian emergency personnel extinguish the smoldering facade of the Al-Dabbeet hospital after rockets reportedly fired by rebels hit the government-controlled neighborhood of Muhafaza in the northern city of Aleppo on May 3, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
May 7, 2016, 5:25 am
Truce in Syria’s Aleppo extended for 72 hours
Pause comes as international condemnation mounts over deadly air strikes on displaced persons camp in country's north
By AFP
This image made from video released by Qasion News Agency, a media opposition platform that relies on a network of activists on the ground, on Friday, April 29, 2016 shows people scrambling through rubble following airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria. (Qasion News Agency via AP)
April 30, 2016, 2:51 am
Rising violence kills over 200 in a week in Syria’s Aleppo
Surge in fighting between Assad's army and rebels causes collapse of 2-month ceasefire brokered by US, Russia
By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue
Syrian women vote in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Damascus on April 13, 2016. Polls opened in areas of war torn Syria controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, for a vote that will not be recognised by the United Nations and has been dismissed by regime opponents as illegitimate. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
April 17, 2016, 3:28 pm
Assad’s party sweeps Syrian elections, shocking no one
Baath and allies in 'National Union' slate win 200 of 250 seats in parliament, with more than 5 million voters casting ballots
By AFP
Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP PHOTO POOL/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
April 17, 2016, 3:33 am
Pope lauded by refugees he helped resettle in Italy
Francis says decision to assist 12 Muslims who were stranded in Greek camp after fleeing war-torn Syria is 'purely humanitarian'
By Nicole Winfield
A Syrian woman shows her ink stained thumb after voting at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Damascus on April 13, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
April 13, 2016, 7:54 pm
Syrians begin voting for parliament in government areas
UK: Decision to go ahead with elections when hundreds of thousands cannot take part shows leadership 'divorced from reality'
By Albert Aji
A Syrian woman shows her ink stained thumb after voting at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Damascus on April 13, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
April 13, 2016, 1:36 pm
Syria holds parliamentary polls in regime-held areas
Controversial vote coincides with a second round of UN-brokered peace talks; Assad opponents dismiss election as illegitimate
By Sammy Ketz
The courtyard of the Maarat al-Numan Mosaics Museum in Idlib province, Syria after it was hit by government bombing, June 16, 2015. (The Day After Heritage Initiative via AP)
April 1, 2016, 3:51 pm
With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history
Undercover archaeologists and curators have been smuggling artifacts out of Islamic State territory in the hope of preserving them from looting and destruction
By Maeva Bambuck
Mossad spy Eli Cohen, executed in Syria in 1965. (YouTube screenshot)
March 22, 2016, 2:46 am
Mossad said to ask US to help retrieve spy’s remains from Syria
Widow of Eli Cohen says former spy agency chief Meir Dagan, who died last week, was coordinating with Washington even after civil war broke out
By Marissa Newman
Bashar al-Jaafari (right) at the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in August 2012 (AP/Kathy Willens)
March 21, 2016, 11:23 pm
Assad’s fate ‘excluded’ from Syria peace talks, Damascus claims
Government negotiator Bashar al-Jaafari says political transition in war-ravaged country and president's fate are separate issues
By AFP
In this picture taken Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, Thomas Webber, 71, walks in garden next to the Citadel of Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
March 8, 2016, 4:18 pm
After decades in Damascus, American says he’ll never leave
Having spent more than 40 years in Syria and converted to Islam, Thomas Webber, 71, says Syrians 'most beautiful people in world'
By Maeva Bambuck
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