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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 346

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Syrians elect new members of the Parliament in Damascus on July 15, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
July 15, 2024, 11:42 am
Syrians vote in parliamentary election set to keep Assad’s Baath party in power
Citizens of government-controlled areas eligible to vote for the rubber-stamp parliament, with Assad and allies running virtually unopposed
By AFP
This photo from the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President Bashar Assad casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections, as his wife Asma, left, stands next to him, in Damascus, Syria, April 13, 2016. (Syrian Presidency via AP, file)
March 3, 2020, 10:20 pm
Syrian regime announces parliamentary elections in April
Voting to be held in areas under Assad’s control for 3rd time since civil war began; UN refused to recognize results of last election
By AFP
In this Dec. 7, 2006 file photo, men stand at a graveyard where the dead of a 1988 gas attack on Halabja, Iraq, by Saddam Hussein's regime were laid to rest. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed, File)
July 7, 2016, 4:42 am
Trump trips on Saddam’s terror-busting record
Late Iraqi dictator’s Baath party makes up the organizational backbone of the Islamic State jihadist group
By Calvin Woodward and Robert Burns
Syrian women vote in the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Damascus on April 13, 2016. Polls opened in areas of war torn Syria controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, for a vote that will not be recognised by the United Nations and has been dismissed by regime opponents as illegitimate. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)
April 17, 2016, 3:28 pm
Assad’s party sweeps Syrian elections, shocking no one
Baath and allies in ‘National Union’ slate win 200 of 250 seats in parliament, with more than 5 million voters casting ballots
By AFP
A Syrian woman shows her ink stained thumb after voting at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Damascus on April 13, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
April 13, 2016, 1:36 pm
Syria holds parliamentary polls in regime-held areas
Controversial vote coincides with a second round of UN-brokered peace talks; Assad opponents dismiss election as illegitimate
By Sammy Ketz
Thirty-foot tall bronze statues of the late dictator Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The sculptures once sat atop towers in the Iraqi palace but were removed following the overthrow of the Baath regime. (Photo credit: Wikimedia commons)
May 3, 2015, 11:03 am
Shadow of Saddam lives on in Iraq
With links to Islamic State, and victims still mourning their losses, the Baath party looms large
By Karim Abou Merhi
Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon shout slogans and carry a big portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as they walk towards to the Syrian Embassy to ballot their vote for their presidential elections, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
June 2, 2014, 11:32 pm
Syria set for presidential election as war rages on
Ahead of ‘farce’ election on Tuesday, Assad regime secures polling stations; rebels urge citizens not to vote
By AFP
Syrians pray during the funeral of a man killed by a shell in Arbeen town, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/United media office of Arbeen)
September 4, 2013, 1:46 pm
France: Syria action would ‘re-balance’ situation
French foreign minister says strike against Assad regime will deter it from further use of chemical weapons
By Lori Hinnant and RYAN LUCAS
August 27, 2013, 6:17 pm
Netanyahu: Israel will hit hard if Syrian threat detected
Prime minister parries Syrian vow that it’ll strike Israel if US attacks; defense minister and chief of staff also warn Assad
By ToI Staff
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
August 27, 2013, 2:16 pm
Israeli intelligence seen as central to US case against Syria
Netanyahu to hold second security cabinet meeting on crisis in two days; top minister says it’s unthinkable for Assad to be allowed to go on gassing children
By ToI Staff
US National Security Advisor Susan Rice (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle/File)
August 27, 2013, 6:37 am
Israeli team talks Egypt, Syria with Susan Rice
Delegation headed by National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror in Washington as US plans its response to Damascus attack
By ToI Staff
Protesters chant slogans and wave revolutionary flags during a rally after Friday prayers at al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, December 28, 2012. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
August 10, 2013, 7:15 pm
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood faces uphill battle
Its downfall in Egypt has deepened distrust of the secretive movement and raised suspicion over its religious agenda
By Zeina Karam
A Kurdish female member of the Popular Protection Units stands guard at a checkpoint near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria, March 3, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)
August 4, 2013, 11:51 pm
Syria’s war splits nation into 3 distinct regions
Regime forces, rebels and Kurds each control territories, boasting their own flags, security agencies and judicial systems
By Zeina Karam
Pro-Syrian government demonstrators hold a rally in Damascus to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the foundation of the ruling Baath Arab Socialist Party, April 7, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo Bassem Tellawi)
July 8, 2013, 5:46 pm
Syrian opposition prime minister resigns
Damascus also reshuffles as top Baath decision-making body elects new leadership
White House press secretary Jay Carney. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
May 29, 2013, 12:50 am
Washington knocks Russia over air defense sale
White House says move to supply Damascus with S-300 anti-airstrike system will perpetuate conflict
By ToI Staff and AP
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