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IDF strikes military targets across Syria, says troops deployed to protect Druze

Sat, 03 May 2025 06:41:02 +0000

Army says its soldiers in southern Syria ready to prevent hostile forces entering Druze areas; Israel said making list of Syrian gov't targets to potentially strike over minority's targeting

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Syria rebels say they’re encircling Damascus; West thinks Assad regime may fall in days

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 20:37:17 +0000

Rebel offensive makes big gains, pushing on regime forces from north, south and east; HTS-led troops enter Homs on road to capital, seize areas near Israel border

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Iran said to evacuate officials from Syria as Assad’s forces lose ground

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 09:07:18 +0000

Syrian military says it redeployed in Daraa after local rebels take southern province; Russia, Iran, Turkey meeting in Qatar could lead to Syrian strongman's ouster, analysts say

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Israeli warplanes said to take out radar installation in southern Syria

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:54:27 +0000

Attack involving six fighter jets flying east over Daraa-Suweida area occurred around same time as reported attack on Iran's Isfahan, monitor says

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Anti-Assad protests take hold in southern Syria amid anger over end to fuel subsidies

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:59:20 +0000

Dozens of people demonstrate in Daraa and Sweida provinces, openly call for end to Syrian president's rule, 12 years after bloody civil war began

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Alleged Jordanian airstrikes kill Syrian drug kingpin, his wife and six children

Mon, 08 May 2023 12:30:51 +0000

War monitor says Amman likely behind bombings that targeted home of Merhi Ramthan near its border and drug factory in southern province of Daraa

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16 hurt in bus bombing in southern Syria near Jordanian border

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:42:05 +0000

State media says terrorists planted explosive on bus traveling along Damascus-Amman highway; attack comes day after rare car bombing in capital

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Report: Syrian regime burned bodies during civil war to make corpses unidentifiable

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:19:02 +0000

Videos dating back to 2012-2013 show bodies transferred into mass graves in the southern province of Daraa

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Russia disbanding Syrian militia it formed, opening up Golan for Iran – report

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:09:34 +0000

Eighth Brigade, which joined forces with Syria's army two years ago, could disarm amid reconciliation process in southern Daraa province

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From exile, Syrian conflict’s first protesters reflect on a decade of death

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:04:51 +0000

Unable to return home, activists from Daraa who set aside their lives to join marches in the streets continue to support a cause that they hope can still prevail

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Iran trying to deepen roots in Syria despite signs it may no longer be welcome

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:59:24 +0000

An article from an Assad ally suggests that Damascus may be looking to shift away from the Shiite axis even as Tehran tries to build up local support with Lebanon-style project

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At least 3 reported killed during suspected Israeli strikes in southern Syria

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:34:07 +0000

Syria says 2 soldiers killed in first reported strike since July 20, when a Hezbollah fighter was hit, sparking ongoing tensions; civilian also dies under unclear circumstances

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Dozens protest after statue of Hafez Assad re-erected in Syria’s Daraa

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:10:55 +0000

Figure of dictator's father was torn down by rebels early in civil war, but now his son, President Bashar Assad, has regained control of the territory

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Jordan says it killed Islamic State jihadists who tried to breach Syrian border

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:51:39 +0000

Military used 'all kinds of weapons' to stop 'gang of terrorists' fleeing regime forces in southern Syria, Amman says, hours after Israel says it killed 7 IS gunmen at its border

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South Syria jihadists say they will trade kidnapped Druze for evacuation

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 15:09:18 +0000

War monitor says Islamic State fighters are trapped in last pocket of Daraa province after Russian-backed regime offensive

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