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Topic: Syrian army

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February 1, 2013
9:50 am

Former Syrian major general Adnan Sillu (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Ex-general says targeted Syrian site produced non-conventional weapons

A second defected Syrian general says Iranian, Russian experts ‘habitually present’ at facility reportedly struck by Israel

By Yoel Goldman

January 4, 2013
5:17 pm

A civilian looks at a building that was destroyed by a Syrian Air Force attack in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

Assad sends warplanes to bomb capital’s suburbs

Car bomb explodes outside a military intelligence building in northern Damascus

December 31, 2012
5:52 pm

Jordan detains 4 Syrian soldiers near border

Unclear whether the men were on their way in or out of Jordan; arrests comes days after neighboring armies clash

By AP and Elhanan Miller

December 26, 2012
1:39 pm

The former head of Syria's military police Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal announcing his defection to the rebels last December (photo credit: screen capture/Al-Arabiya)

Top Syrian general switches sides, says he has joined ‘the people’s revolution’

Rights group says government shelling in northern province killed 20, including 8 children and 3 women

December 18, 2012
7:29 am

The UN observer force on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights (photo credit: CC BY FreedomHouse/Flickr/File)

UN sees risk of escalation in Syrian-Israeli tensions in Golan

From the web Reuters: Draft Security Council resolution warns that civil war may jeopardize 1973 ceasefire, calls to extend UN peacekeeping mission

December 16, 2012
2:00 pm

Smoke rises up after intense fighting between Syrian Army and FSA in a military base in Tal Sheen, Syria, on Saturday, December 15, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Syrian Islamist rebels take Aleppo infantry base

Capture is second major military installation ‘liberated’ by rebels in a week

By Barbara Surk

December 1, 2012
12:55 am

A destroyed building in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday after airstrikes targeted the area. (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Sunni Lebanese gunmen fighting with anti-Assad rebels killed inside Syria

20 fighters die near the Syrian-Lebanese border, stoking sectarian tensions

November 25, 2012
7:38 pm

Golan Heights residents report explosion near Syria border

IDF rules out mortar hitting Israel, says incident was likely small-arms fire on other side of border

By Ilan Ben Zion

November 23, 2012
8:20 pm

A Patriot anti-missile system in Israel (Photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Syria says Turkey’s bid for NATO missiles ‘provocative’

From the web Reuters: Deploying the Patriots may be first step toward implementing a no-fly zone

November 13, 2012
10:06 am

In this file photo from October 2012, Syrian rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa al-Tawhid unit pose after several days of intense clashes in Aleppo (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras, File)

Newly unified, Syrian rebels seek arms while government forces have ‘more than enough weapons’

‘As long as Bashar Assad has the money to pay his military, it will keep fighting,’ says analyst

By Brian Murphy and Elizabeth A. Kennedy

November 11, 2012
1:52 pm

An artillery piece in the north of Israel firing a shell in a 2006 drill. (Illustrative photo: Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

IDF fires ‘warning’ anti-tank missile toward Syrian forces in response to mortar shell in Golan

First such exchange since Yom Kippur War; no damage or injuries reported in latest instance of spillover from the Syrian civil war; UN chief calls for ‘utmost restraint’

By Gabe Fisher

October 27, 2012
5:44 pm

Syrian rebel fighters take cover as a Syrian army sniper fires from a destroyed mosque in Tarik Al-Bab, southeast of Aleppo, Syria on Friday, October 26. (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

Ceasefire in tatters as Syrian air force bombs rebels

At least 50 killed in clashes on second day of Eid al-Adha truce; 150 killed on Friday

By AP and Times of Israel staff

October 27, 2012
10:42 am

Displaced Syrian children run after a truck loaded with presents for Eid Al-Adha in a refugee camp in Idlib province, Syria on Friday (AP/Manu Brabo)

Syrian troops shell rebel-held areas on second day of holiday ceasefire

Rebel commander says UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi’s initiative has failed