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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Ahmed al-Sharaa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the top of the Syrian side of Mount Hermon along with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (right) and other troops, December 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
April 27, 2025, 1:26 am
GOP lawmaker cautions Israel against ‘dividing’ Syria, after meeting with Sharaa
Marlin Stutzman says new Syrian leader signaled openness to Israel normalization, but listed concerns to be addressed first, notably not including progress toward Palestinian state
By Jacob Magid
Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa holds a joint press conference following a meeting with the Turkish president, at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, February 4, 2025. (OZAN KOSE / AFP)
April 24, 2025, 8:48 pm
Ahmed al-Sharaa said to seek peace with Israel, eyes Syrian entry to Abraham Accords
In desperate push for removal of US sanctions, Islamist leader tells American lawmaker Syria wants to normalize ties with Jerusalem ‘under the right conditions’
By Nava Freiberg
Accompanied by unidentified members of the delegation, U.S. congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), second from right, walks in the Old City of Damascus Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
April 19, 2025, 2:13 am
Republican US congressmen visit Syria, meet with new leadership, local Christians
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas separately meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus; Syria’s FM to reportedly soon visit US as Islamist-led government pushes for lifting of sanctions
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, April 17, 2025. (Alexander Nemenov / Pool / AFP)
April 17, 2025, 9:08 pm
Qatar’s ruler tells Putin Israel didn’t abide by Gaza truce that Doha helped mediate
At joint press conference in Moscow, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani also says Syria’s new leader wants warmer ties with Kremlin after toppling Assad
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Syrian Alawite families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, March 11, 2025. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 15, 2025, 12:15 pm
Fearful Syria’s Alawites still face attacks a month after wave of deadly violence
Members of former ruling minority say Sunni vengeance against ousted regime has continued, as tens of thousands flee to neighboring Lebanon
By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left, shakes hands with Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on April 14, 2025. (Lebanese Government press office via AP)
April 14, 2025, 9:57 pm
Lebanon’s PM visits Syria’s interim president to discuss border, prisoners, refugees
Nawaf Salam and Ahmed al-Sharaa agree to form joint ministerial committee to oversee implementation of March border agreement, after deadly clashes earlier this year
By AP
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa during a joint press conference following their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)
April 11, 2025, 6:47 am
Israel will need to get used to Turkey’s growing footprint in Syria
Post-Assad Syria needs a strong country to help it out of the chaos, and Turkey wants in; with America backing Erdogan, there’s little Israel can do beyond insisting on red lines
By Nurit Yohanan
An antenna lies amidst debris at the scene of an Israeli strike in Syria's southern Hama governorate, on April 3, 2025. (Abdulaziz KETAZ / AFP)
April 3, 2025, 10:37 am
IDF says several gunmen ‘eliminated’ after firing on troops in southern Syria
Military says troops completed task of confiscating weapons, destroying terror infrastructure; Syrian local government says 9 civilians killed
By Emanuel Fabian, AFP and ToI Staff
Syrian interim President Ahmed Sharaa speaks in Damascus, Syria, March 29, 2025. (Syrian Presidency/AFP)
March 30, 2025, 5:19 am
Syria swears in new transitional government four months after ousting Assad
Members of minority groups including a Christian woman, a Kurd, and and an Alawite given cabinet positions as Damascus aims to convince West to lift crippling sanctions
By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE
A member of the Syrian forces stands on a vehicle during deadly violence in which some 1,500 members of Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect were killed, in Latakia, Syria, March 7, 2025. (Karam al-Masri/Reuters)
March 24, 2025, 4:04 pm
Investigating their own killings: Alawites claim the new regime was behind massacre
Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, decry the duplicity of Syria’s new leadership
By Nurit Yohanan
US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff is interviewed on Tucker Carlson's podcast on March 21, 2025. (Screen capture/X)
March 22, 2025, 12:44 pm
Witkoff: Hamas isn’t ideologically intractable, Gaza conflict can end through dialogue
In candid podcast interview, top Trump aide indicates renewed IDF strikes may be necessary after Hamas intransigence, says PM ‘going up against Israeli public opinion that wants hostages back’
By Jacob Magid
Smoke rises from a village in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on March 17, 2025. (Ayal Margolin/ Flash90)
March 17, 2025, 11:50 pm
IDF strikes terror targets in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, said to kill at least 9
Military says it hit Hezbollah surveillance operatives, terror group’s sites in Lebanon; weapons in Syria; Palestinian suspects trying to plant bomb near troops in Strip
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Syrian Civil Defense and first responders rescue a victim from the site of an explosion in Syria's western coastal city of Latakia, March 15, 2025. (Sana / AFP)
March 16, 2025, 1:41 pm
At least 16 killed as ordnance from Syrian civil war explodes in port city Latakia
White Helmets report 18 wounded after blast in recent flashpoint area; blast said to have occurred when scrap dealer handled explosive left over from 13-year-conflict
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Syrian security forces stand guard as people chant and wave national flags amid celebrations on the fourteenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, at a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus on March 15, 2025. (Bakr AlKasem/AFP)
March 16, 2025, 6:43 am
Syrians commemorate uprising anniversary for first time since Assad’s fall
Security forces in Damascus hand out flowers to demonstrators who gather in public square that was once the sole preserve of the ousted president’s supporters
By Maher Al Mounes
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signs the country's constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period, at the presidential palace in Damascus on March 13, 2025. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 12:11 am
Syria’s interim president signs constitution enshrining Islamist rule for 5 years
Amid major wave of sectarian violence, which has posed first major challenge of post-Assad Syria, new regime issues constitution which it says will grant equality for all citizens
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb
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