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Syrian government soldiers wave a Syrian flag after climbing atop a statue of a female Kurdish fighter, following the takeover of the town from US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) during an ongoing push against Kurdish-led forces, in Tabqa, eastern Syria, January 18, 2026. (AP Photo/ Omar Albam)
January 18, 2026, 5:53 pm
Kurdish commander urges US to intervene in Syria, says he’d welcome Israeli help
Syrian government forces take country’s largest oil field despite US call to stop advance, as Kurdish-led SDF withdraws from areas it controlled since pushing out ISIS in 2017
By Agencies
Footage shows the aftermath of a bus blast in Deir Ezzor, Syria, on October 16, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 16, 2025, 2:02 pm
Bus blast in eastern Syria kills at least 5 defense ministry staff; ISIS suspected
Attack on bus carrying oil facility guards is similar to terror group’s behavior during civil war; jihadist attacks on government relatively rare since Assad regime’s fall
By AFP
A health worker and other men walk amid the bodies of victims of the recent clashes between local Druze fighters and Bedouin tribes, laid out for identification in the yard of a hospital in Syria's southern city of Sweida on July 17, 2025. (Shadi AL-DUBAISI / AFP)
August 11, 2025, 2:51 pm
Syria vows investigation after video shows forces killing worker in Sweida hospital
Interior Ministry promises accountability, but rights groups demand independent probe into apparent shooting of hospital employee by Syrian security personnel during July clashes
By Nurit Yohanan, AFP and Stav Levaton
Syrian Bedouin families ride in a convoy led by Red Crescent vehicles in Busra al-Harir, heading to Daraa after being evacuated from Sweida following more than a week of violent clashes, July 21, 2025. (Malek Khattab/AP)
July 21, 2025, 2:41 pm
Syria starts evacuating Bedouin families from Sweida in bid to restore calm
Government aims to move some 1,500 Bedouins out of city after a week of deadly clashes with Druze; officials say Damascus will also allow displaced residents to return
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb
Tribal and Bedouin fighters gather in the western neighborhood of southern Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen on July 19, 2025. (Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP)
July 20, 2025, 1:28 pm
Calm reported in Syria’s Sweida as tribal fighters withdraw
More than 1,000 dead following week of violence in Druze-majority city that saw Israel strike regime forces in effort to aid locals
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)
May 30, 2025, 1:46 pm
ISIS claims first attack on Syrian government forces since Assad’s fall
Terror group says bomb targeted ‘vehicle of the apostate regime’ in southern province Sweida last week, leaving 7 soldiers dead or wounded; also hit US-backed Free Syrian Army
By Agencies
Illustrative: Lebanese army soldiers deploy in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT/ AFP)
March 17, 2025, 8:09 pm
Lebanon says it will retaliate for gunfire from Syria amid deadly fighting on border
War monitor says 5 Syrian soldiers killed Monday, during clashes that began Saturday, when 3 Syrians were killed in Lebanon in alleged Hezbollah abduction
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on January 6, 2025, shows fighters affiliated with Syria's new administration taking men into custody in Syria's west-central city of Homs. (SANA / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 8:46 am
Syrian fighters execute 35 in 72 hours, mainly officers from former regime, monitor says
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says many of those killed were from religious minorities, rebels used ‘unprecedented level of cruelty and violence’
By AFP
An explosion from alleged Israeli airstrikes on weapons depots in the Syrian coastal area of Tartus, early December 16, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 16, 2024, 11:29 am
Heavy Israeli airstrikes reported on Syrian military sites in coastal Tartus region
Latest raids said to hit sites including air defense units and surface-to-surface missile depots; war monitor calls them ‘heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since 2012’
By ToI Staff
Anti-government fighters pose for a "selfie" picture on a Syrian regime military aircraft at the Kweyris military airfield in the eastern part of Aleppo province on December 3, 2024. (Rami al Sayed/AFP)
December 5, 2024, 3:25 pm
Syrian rebels oust regime forces from key central city of Hama, on route to Damascus
Assad’s troops retreat from strategic city, which had remained in government hands throughout entire civil war, less than a week after Islamist forces took Aleppo
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
Anti-regime fighters drive along the Aleppo-Damascus M5 highway in the newly captured northwestern area of Khan al-Assal, as smoke rises in the distance on November 29, 2024 (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
November 29, 2024, 7:17 pm
Netanyahu holds assessment on Syria as jihadists enter Aleppo in lightning assault
Alliance led by Al-Qaeda’s former Syria branch takes control of some 50 towns and villages, in Assad regime’s biggest loss of territory in years
By AFP
A screenshot of unverified footage posted to social media of smoke billowing after an alleged Israeli attack on the historic city of Palmyra, Syria November 20, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 22, 2024, 9:18 pm
Over 90 said dead, including 15 Hezbollah operatives, in alleged Israeli strike in Syria
Unverified report from Britain-based war monitor also claims operatives from IRGC-backed Al-Nujaba group among 61 pro-Iran fighters killed in strike on city of Palmyra
By AFP and ToI Staff
An alleged Israeli airstrike in central Syria on August 23, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
August 24, 2024, 1:59 am
Syria says Israeli airstrikes targeted several sites in country’s center, wounding 7
Unconfirmed report from war monitor says three-Iran backed fighters were killed in attacks on makeshift petrol stations affiliated with Hezbollah in Homs, weapons depots in Hama
By AFP
This picture taken on March 26, 2024, shows a view of a damaged building following an airstrike in Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor. (AFP)
August 11, 2024, 4:25 pm
Five pro-Iran fighters killed in Syria drone strike near Iraqi border – war monitor
Strike occurred in Syria’s oft-targeted eastern Deir Ezzor province, where Iran wields significant influence, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
By AFP
A fire following an alleged Israeli airstrike near Aleppo Syria on June 3, 2024. (Screen capture: X)
June 4, 2024, 6:22 pm
Iran says IRGC general killed in alleged Israeli strike in Aleppo Monday
Saeed Abyar, Quds Force adviser, said to have been stationed in Syria since 2012; unverified report from war monitor puts death toll at 16
By AFP and ToI Staff
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