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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

Ahmed al-Sharaa

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan hosting a meeting of top diplomats from the Middle East and Europe to discuss Syria, poses for a picture with the participants in Riyadh on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)
January 12, 2025, 2:12 pm
Diplomats convene in Saudi Arabia for talks on Syria’s future
Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led Islamist rebel group that toppled regime, urges sanctions relief, as West moves to provide humanitarian essentials while demanding inclusive government
By AFP
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), shows Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati (L) shaking hands with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa before their meeting in Damascus on January 11, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
January 12, 2025, 1:07 am
Syria’s Sharaa meets Lebanese PM in bid to improve nations’ ties
Mikati is the first head of government to visit Damascus since Assad regime fell last month; new Syrian leaders looking to get relations back on track with neighbors
By Reuters
An aerial view shows the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, locally believed to hold the grave of Zeinab bint Ali, the daughter of Imam Ali and Fatima, and granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad, in the southern suburbs of Damascus, on December 11, 2024. (Dylan COLLINS / AFP)
January 11, 2025, 3:10 pm
Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted Islamic State bomb attack on Shiite shrine
Site has been previously targeted by the terror group; announcement of foiled plot appears to be latest attempt by country’s new leaders to reassure religious minorities
By Agencies
Rabbi Binyamin Hamra (YouTube screenshot)
January 6, 2025, 6:15 pm
Son of last Syrian chief rabbi urges new leader Sharaa to restore Jewish community
Binyamin Hamra, rabbi of Syrian community in Israel, writes Sharaa that toppling Assad was ‘historical move due to God’s providence,’ protection of Jewish sites his religious duty
By ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA shows France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (C) and Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (L) walking with Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of their meeting in Damascus on January 3, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
January 5, 2025, 6:16 pm
As European and Arab leaders rush to meet Syria’s new leader, Israel calls for caution
Ahmed al-Sharaa is hoping to convince the world that he’s left his jihadist past behind, but FM Gideon Sa’ar and other senior officials are not persuaded
By Lazar Berman
Troops of the Israeli Air Force's elite Shaldag unit are seen atop the Syrian side of Mount Hermon, in a photo published December 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 4, 2025, 3:00 pm
Report: Syrian leader asked US to press Israel to withdraw its forces from buffer zone
Amid reports of more Islamist slant in Syrian school curricula, Ahmed al-Sharaa hosts German and French foreign ministers, who warn that Europe won’t fund ‘new Islamist structures’
By ToI Staff
Bakhour Chamntoub (L), the head of Syria's remaining Jewish community, which numbers some nine people, speaks with Mohammad Badarieh (R), a representative of the country's de-facto new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in a clip aired by the Kan public broadcaster on January 3, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 3, 2025, 1:57 pm
Aide to Syrian leader meets with head of tiny Jewish community, urges Jews to return
Mohammad Badarieh, representing Islamist rebel chief Ahmed al-Sharaa, tells Bakhour Chamntoub, one of 9 remaining Jews, that ‘you will be safe,’ all will have ‘peace and security’
By ToI Staff
People celebrate on New Year's Eve at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, December 31, 2024. (AP/Leo Correa)
January 3, 2025, 11:49 am
‘New political beginning’: German, French FMs to meet with nascent Syrian regime
First top level EU diplomats to visit Damascus since fall of Assad regime; German FM says coming with ‘outstretched hand’ as well as ‘clear expectations’ for new government
By Agencies
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's military chief Murhaf Abu Qasra, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Hamawi, gives an interview in the Syrian western port city of Latakia, on December 17, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
December 31, 2024, 4:01 pm
Islamist rebel commander tapped as acting Syrian defense chief
Head of HTS armed wing Murhaf Abu Qasra gets nod as new rulers look to transform insurgents, including foreign jihadi fighters, into army
By Agencies
Members of the new armed forces, former rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, stand in formation as they prepare for a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 30, 2024, 6:56 pm
New regime in Syria said to appoint some foreign Islamist fighters to military
Prominent Uighur, Jordanian, and Turkish foreign fighters given military ranks, as Islamist rebel group at core of de facto new government in Syria arranges formal armed forces
By Reuters
Syria's new leader and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) chief Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) receives Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha (Andriy Sybiga) in Damascus on December 30, 2024. (Bakr Alkasem / AFP)
December 30, 2024, 1:56 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 30: Day 451 – Democracy in Syria? De facto leader says not so fast
Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani sheds light on who the Houthis are; reporter Sue Surkes on Israeli international aid orgs’ funding crisis and how Israel can achieve net-zero
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Gianluca Pacchiani and Sue Surkes
A publication showing ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen on a desk at the Baath party headquarters, as former army soldiers, background, wait to register their names with Syrian rebels as part of an "identification and reconciliation" process in Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla,File)
December 30, 2024, 8:53 am
Syria’s long-ruling Baath party on way out after collapse of Assad regime
New leaders turn Baath headquarters in Damascus into a location for former security officials; soldiers to hand over their weapons; many party members have gone into hiding or fled
By BASSEM MROUE
Syria's de facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, walks in the presidential palace in Damascus, December 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
December 29, 2024, 3:54 pm
Syria could take four years to hold elections, de facto leader Sharaa says
Rebel chief who ousted Assad says drafting a new constitution could take three years, subsequent changes could take another
By Hatem Maher and Menna Alaa
Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighborhood, in Homs, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/ Leo Correa)
December 27, 2024, 1:44 pm
Syria’s Homs settles into uneasy calm after brief eruption of sectarian violence
Security forces flood major mixed city, patrolling and checking IDs, days after gunfire at protest by members of Alawite minority; Christians say new regime protecting churches
By ABBY SEWELL
Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known by nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Julani, speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)
December 24, 2024, 4:36 pm
Syria’s new leadership to consolidate all armed rebel factions into defense ministry
Ahmed al-Sharaa says no weapons to be allowed in Syria outside of state control, including among Kurdish groups in north; US said encouraging Israel to develop ties with new leaders
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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