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IDF soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Syria, February 28, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
September 8, 2026, 7:51 pm
UN commission warns Israel may have committed ‘war crimes’ in Syria
Probe finds 49 Syrians, including two children, detained as of June and held in Israel, which slams the investigation and denies any territorial aspirations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
People sit across from a poster depicting Syria's president Bashar al-Assad in a gas mask during an event in the rebel-held northern city of Afrin, on August 20, 2023, marking the 10-year anniversary of chemical attacks that killed over 1,400 people in Ghouta, near the capital. (Rami al Sayed/AFP)
September 3, 2026, 8:07 pm
Syria has started destroying Assad-era chemical weapon materials, UN envoy says
Chemical weapons watchdog confirms 42 aerial bombs destroyed, in first for Syria since 2014; US urges continued cooperation and Russia and China commend progress
By AFP
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert seen in Paris, France, on June 9, 2025. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
September 2, 2026, 11:57 pm
In first, Olmert confirms Israel in 2008 killed top Assad adviser who oversaw nuke facility
In his new book, ex-PM recounts how Syria’s Muhammad Suleiman was shot in the back of the head by elite troops who emerged from the ocean to breach his beachfront property
By ToI Staff
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa meets with US President Donald Trump (not pictured) on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
August 25, 2026, 11:54 am
Sharaa says Syria ‘shakes off a dark stain’ with removal from US terror list
Syrian president says sanctions relief step sets country on path to rebuild after destructive civil war; Turkey hopes it will boost effort to reintegrate Damascus into world
By AFP
An anti-government fighter tears down a portrait of Syria's then-President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after jihadists and their allies entered the northern Syrian city, on November 30, 2024. (Mohammed AL-RIFAI / AFP)
August 19, 2026, 11:42 am
Syria arrests Assad-era officer who fled prison sentence in Austria
Musab Abu Rukbah returned home after Vienna court sentenced him to 8 years in jail for torture, sexual assault of Assad critics while serving as head of Raqqa police investigations
By Feras Dalatey
International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi, left, and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani attend a press conference in Damascus, Syria, August 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
August 18, 2026, 8:28 pm
IAEA finds ‘tons’ of nuclear material in Syria; Damascus: We’ll keep it for ‘peaceful’ energy use
UN nuclear watchdog chief Grossi says ‘it could be put to bad use’ and will be placed under ‘international safeguards’; he also tours reactor site bombed by Israel in 2007, increasingly convinced site was nuclear facility
By AFP and ToI Staff
Then-president Bashar al-Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during presidential elections in the town of Douma, near the Syrian capital of Damascus, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
August 11, 2026, 5:19 pm
Syrian court sentences ex-president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for war crimes
Assad’s cousin Atef Najib, present in Damascus court, also given death penalty for overseeing 2011 crackdown that helped trigger uprising against regime
By GHAITH ALSAYED and SAMAR KASSABALLI
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, welcomes United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
July 25, 2026, 1:21 pm
UN chief urges support for Syria, meets Sharaa, on first visit since before civil war
Antonio Guterres calls on the international community to help Syria rebuild after years of war; will visit UN troops stationed in a buffer zone between Syria and Israel
By AFP
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa addresses the inaugural session of Syria’s newly formed People’s Assembly, the first since the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government, in Damascus, Syria on Sunday, July 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
July 12, 2026, 6:16 pm
Syria’s interim parliament meets for first time after Assad overthrow
At chamber’s first session in Damascus, President Sharaa calls on lawmakers to model ‘responsibility and competence’; three seats for Druze-majority Sweida remain empty
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Museum employees unpack a carved stone panel after Syrian authorities unveiled antiquities returned from France at the National Museum in Damascus, Syria, July 8, 2026.(AP/Ghaith Alsayed)
July 10, 2026, 11:48 am
France returns 23 Syrian treasures kept for 15 years due to severed ties
Artifacts flown to Damascus aboard Macron’s presidential aircraft include Roman bronze objects, Byzantine and Islamic-era pieces, mosaic panel that once adorned the Umayyad Mosque
By AP
Ex-Syrian general defendant Khaled al-Halabi (R) covers his face as he is escorted in handcuffs for the trial to the courtroom by justice officers at the Regional Vienna's Court of Austria in Vienna, Austria, on June 1, 2026. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
June 1, 2026, 6:30 pm
Two Syrian former officials deny civil war torture charges as trial opens in Austria
Former Syrian intel officer Khaled al-Halabi and ex-police chief Musab Abu Rukbah are charged with committing slew of crimes against Assad’s opponents in Raqqa between 2011 and 2013
By Julia ZAPPEI and Blaise GAUQUELIN
Members of a UN investigative team take samples near the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)
May 26, 2026, 9:55 pm
Syria locates materials from Assad’s chemical weapons program, arrests suspects
More than 70 rockets and aerial bombs uncovered, as well as raw ingredients for the production of sarin, which was used on Syrians during the 14-year civil ​war
By Anthony Deutsch
The mugshot of Adnan Abboud Hilweh, an Assad-era general who was arrested by Syria for allegedly being behind chemical attacks against civilians, after his arrest on April 29, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry / SANA)
April 30, 2026, 12:11 am
Syria arrests former Assad-era general accused of 2013 chemical attack involvement
Interior Ministry says it detained Adnan Abboud Hilweh, who it says was responsible for sarin nerve gas ‘massacre’ on Damascus-area suburb Ghouta, which killed over 1,000
By AFP
Atef Najib, former head of the Political Security Branch in the Daraa area during Bashar al-Assad's rule, sits in the defendants' cage during a trial session at the Palace of Justice in Damascus, Syria, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
April 26, 2026, 7:11 pm
Syria’s first public trial of Assad-era officials begins in Damascus
Bereaved families demand death penalty, starting with Atef Najib, a former general and cousin of the ousted dictator who was allegedly behind the torture of children in 2011
By GHAITH ALSAYED
Former Syrian intelligence officer Amjad Yousef after his arrest in the central province of Hama, in an image published on April 24, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry/X)
April 25, 2026, 1:46 am
Syria says it arrested ex-intel officer filmed taking part in 2013 Damascus massacre
Syria says Amjad Yousef was one of several officers caught on leaked video shooting dozens of prisoners into trench in Damascus suburb near Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk
By GHAITH ALSAYED
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