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Turkish-backed Syrian rebels gesture as they drive down a road in the area of Hallubi, north of Afrin, on March 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib)
March 13, 2018, 7:32 pm
Turkish forces ‘surround’ Syrian Kurdish city
Ankara says troops blocking all exits from Afrin in major offensive against YPG militia, as elsewhere civilians evacuated from besieged Eastern Ghouta
By Layal Abou Rahal
Former deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich. (Courtesy)
March 13, 2018, 4:01 am
Israel’s as secure as it’s ever been but that can change quickly, new book warns
Former deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich talks about his new work, 'Israeli National Security,' and his grim but hopeful vision of the future
By Judah Ari Gross
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at a Security Council meeting on the the situation in Syria at the United Nations, on March 12, 2018, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
March 12, 2018, 9:27 pm
US warns of action in Syria as it pushes new ceasefire
Nikki Haley circulates draft resolution calling for 30-day truce in Eastern Ghouta, threatens response to chemical attacks
By Carole LANDRY
Members of Syrian civil defence forces known as White Helmets evacuate a victim of an air strike in the rebel-held enclave of Arbin in the Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on February 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Amer ALMOHIBANY)
March 12, 2018, 2:20 pm
Syria war has killed more than 350,000 in 7 years, monitor says
Among 58,130 regime-allied and militia fighters killed in action are 1,630 from Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group and 7,686 from other foreign Shiite groups
By AFP
Maziar Bahari, December 4, 2017. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
March 12, 2018, 1:29 am
Tortured Iranian expat makes documentaries to educate Muslims about Holocaust
Maziar Bahari's home country imprisoned him for his education initiatives, but he continues to preach against genocide -- including at Monday's speech at the USHMM
By Cathryn J. Prince
Syrian men check the damage following Syrian government shelling on the town of Douma in the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 10, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / HAMZA AL-AJWEH)
March 11, 2018, 6:40 am
Syria army cuts off main rebel town in Ghouta as death toll tops 1,000
At least 20 civilians – including four children – said killed in Douma Saturday, in addition to 17 civilians in other battlefront towns
By Hasan Mohammed
A wounded Syrian man is brought into a clinic in Syria's Eastern Ghouta on March 7, 2018, after regime air strikes. (AFP PHOTO / Amer ALMOHIBANY)
March 10, 2018, 4:27 pm
Assad regime said to cut off largest town in rebel-held Ghouta
Keen to secure Damascus, Russia-backed government troops continue to close in on enclave, killing nearly 1,000 civilians in under a month
By Agencies
Wounded Syrians await treatment at a clinic in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 7, 2018, following reported government bombardments. (AFP PHOTO / Abdullah HAMMAM)
March 8, 2018, 3:48 pm
More than 900 killed in Syrian assault – monitor
Aid agencies forced to postpone convoy of food and medicines to Ghouta as victims treated for symptoms of chemical attacks
By Abdulmonam Eassa
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
March 8, 2018, 2:18 pm
Liberman vows not to ‘succumb’ to Haredi ‘extortion,’ even if it means elections
As ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to topple government, Yisrael Beytenu party digs in and insists it will resist fast-tracking of military draft law
By TOI staff
A member of the Syrian government walks along a destroyed street in al-Shifoniya as they advance in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on March 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
March 6, 2018, 6:41 pm
France, Britain request urgent UN meeting on Syria
Security Council to discuss failed ceasefire in rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, where nearly 800 civilians have been killed in under a month
By Agencies
This file photo taken on August 20, 2007 shows a Russian-made Hungarian air force Antonov AN-26 plane flying above the Square of Heroes in the capital Budapest. (AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA)
March 6, 2018, 6:01 pm
Russian plane crash at base in Syria kills 32
Moscow says transport jet crashes 500 meters from runway while attempting to land in Hmeimim airbase, blames possible technical malfunction
By AFP
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, shake hands for journalists at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran on, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
March 5, 2018, 4:35 pm
French foreign minister in Iran amid missile criticism
While Paris objects to Tehran's ballistic weapons program, French companies have a lot of dealings in Iranian market, complicating possible sanctions
By Amir Vahdat
Syrians flee their homes with their belongings in the town of Beit Sawa in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region on March 4, 2018, following reported regime air strikes. (AFP Photo/Abdulmonam Eassa)
March 5, 2018, 2:08 am
Syria’s Assad says bloody Ghouta campaign must go on
Remarks come as regime air strikes kill 34 civilians including 11 children on Sunday, bringing two-week death toll from strikes and artillery bombardment to over 650 civilians
By AFP
A Syrian civil defense volunteer carries children, as he helps them try to flee their homes in the town of Hamouria in Syria's besieged eastern Ghouta region on March 4, 2018, following reported airstrikes. (AFP PHOTO / ABDULMONAM EASSA)
March 4, 2018, 9:06 pm
Syria regime retakes quarter of rebel enclave as civilians flee
US, UK and France step up pressure on Damascus and Moscow to end devastating bombardment of Eastern Ghouta, which has killed more than 600 civilians in 2 weeks
By AFP
Syrians living in a shelter seeking protection from airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, released on February 21, 2018. (Syrian anti-government activist group Damascus Media Center via AP)
March 4, 2018, 7:27 pm
In Syria’s Ghouta, shelters are tombs for the living
15,000 reportedly driven from homes as UN silent in wake of Assad's relentless Russian-backed bombing
By Sarah El Deeb
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