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Syria's security forces gather after reaching a deal with Druze gunmen to deploy around Jaramana following sectarian violence in the Damascus suburb, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
May 3, 2025, 9:41 am
IDF strikes military targets across Syria, says troops deployed to protect Druze
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
By AFP, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Anti-government fighters stand in front of a defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as they patrol a street in the Syrian southern city of Daraa on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Sam HARIRI / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 10:37 pm
Syria rebels say they’re encircling Damascus; West thinks Assad regime may fall in days
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
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An opposition fighter fires his AK-47 in the air in celebration in Hama, Syria, December 6, 2024.(AP Photo/Omar Albam)
December 7, 2024, 11:07 am
Iran said to evacuate officials from Syria as Assad’s forces lose ground
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
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An Israeli army f-15 fighter jet flies over central Israel on April 15, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
April 19, 2024, 1:54 pm
Israeli warplanes said to take out radar installation in southern Syria
Attack involving six fighter jets flying east over Daraa-Suweida area occurred around same time as reported attack on Iran’s Isfahan, monitor says
By AFP
A man snaps a picture of a red rose raised by a protestor, during a demonstration in Syria's rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on August 25, 2023, in support of anti-government protests in the regime-controled southern city of Sweida. Rare protests have erupted in the country's south in recent days after the government lifted fuel subsidies last week, dealing a blow to Syrians already struggling with the heavy toll that 12 years of war have exacted on the economy. (Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP)
August 27, 2023, 5:59 am
Anti-Assad protests take hold in southern Syria amid anger over end to fuel subsidies
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
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative - Jordanian soldiers patrol along the eastern Jordan-Syria border, in al-Washash, Mafraq governorate, Jordan, February 17, 2022. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
May 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
Alleged Jordanian airstrikes kill Syrian drug kingpin, his wife and six children
War monitor says Amman likely behind bombings that targeted home of Merhi Ramthan near its border and drug factory in southern province of Daraa
By Kareem Chehayeb and Bassam Mroue
A convoy of Syrian military vehicles at Naseeb border crossing with Jordan, in the southern province of Daraa, Syria, July 7, 2018. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP/ File)
April 3, 2023, 10:42 pm
16 hurt in bus bombing in southern Syria near Jordanian border
State media says terrorists planted explosive on bus traveling along Damascus-Amman highway; attack comes day after rare car bombing in capital
By AFP
A building damaged by Syrian government forces following clashes with rebel fighters is seen in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, September 12, 2021. (AP Photo)
October 31, 2022, 4:19 pm
Report: Syrian regime burned bodies during civil war to make corpses unidentifiable
Videos dating back to 2012-2013 show bodies transferred into mass graves in the southern province of Daraa
By AFP
Russian troops in the Syrian district of Daraa al-Balad in Syria's southern province of Daraa, on September 1, 2021. (Sam HARIRI / AFP)
October 21, 2021, 4:09 pm
Russia disbanding Syrian militia it formed, opening up Golan for Iran – report
Eighth Brigade, which joined forces with Syria’s army two years ago, could disarm amid reconciliation process in southern Daraa province
By ToI Staff
Displaced Syrians are seen leaving opposition-held areas of Daraa on June 26, 2018. ( Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)
March 18, 2021, 7:04 pm
From exile, Syrian conflict’s first protesters reflect on a decade of death
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
By Sarah El Deeb and Bassam Mroue
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, speaks with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before their meeting in Tehran, Syria, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. erupted nearly eight years ago. (SANA via AP)
January 14, 2021, 4:59 pm
Iran trying to deepen roots in Syria despite signs it may no longer be welcome
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
By Avi Issacharoff
Illustrative: A Syrian surface-to-air missile explodes in the sky over southern Syria on August 31, 2020. (SANA)
August 31, 2020, 11:34 pm
At least 3 reported killed during suspected Israeli strikes in southern Syria
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
By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Syrian troops flash the victory sign next to the Syrian flag in Tel al-Haara, the highest hill in the southwestern Daraa province, Syria, July 17, 2018. (SANA via AP)
March 11, 2019, 5:10 pm
Dozens protest after statue of Hafez Assad re-erected in Syria’s Daraa
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
By AFP
A picture taken on July 24, 2018 from the Tal Saki hill in the Golan Heights shows smoke rising above buildings across the border in Syria during air strikes backing a Syrian-government-led offensive in the southwestern province of Daraa. (AFP/ JALAA MAREY)
August 2, 2018, 4:51 pm
Jordan says it killed Islamic State jihadists who tried to breach Syrian border
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
By AFP
In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018, photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian troops flash the victory sign next to the Syrian flag in Tell al-Haara, the highest hill in the southwestern Daraa province, Syria. (SANA via AP)
July 31, 2018, 6:09 pm
South Syria jihadists say they will trade kidnapped Druze for evacuation
War monitor says Islamic State fighters are trapped in last pocket of Daraa province after Russian-backed regime offensive
By AFP
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