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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Bashar al-Assad

A rebel fighter walks past a portrait of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad at the 4th Division barracks of the dismantled Syrian army, in the town of Dummar near Damascus, on December 23, 2024. (Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
January 9, 2025, 2:07 pm
Iranian general says Assad blocked Tehran’s effort to open Syrian front against Israel
Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’
By ToI Staff
Abdullah Zahra demonstrates how he was tortured in a cell at Branch 215, a detention facility run by military intelligence during Bashar al-Assad's regime, in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
January 7, 2025, 12:29 pm
‘My screams would go to heaven’: Syrians speak out about torture under Assad
Long silenced by fear, men and women finally share what happened in the 100 detention facilities where torture, brutality, sexual violence and mass executions were rampant
By Sarah El Deeb and Malak Harb
Bullet holes deface a mural depicting the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Adra town on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus, Syria, December 25, 2024. (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)
December 28, 2024, 11:30 am
Two of Assad’s relatives arrested as they tried to fly out of Lebanon, officials say
Wife, daughter of Duraid al-Assad, ex-president’s cousin and son of ‘Butcher of Hama’ Rifaat, said to have been smuggled into Lebanon and sought to reach Egypt with fake documents
By Agencies
This handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on November 11, 2023, shows Syria's then-President Bashar al-Assad attending an emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency/AFP)
December 28, 2024, 1:52 am
Mossad chief was set to meet Assad in 2019 in bid to cut Syria-Iran ties — report
Strongman backed out at the last moment from Kremlin sit-down with Yossi Cohen, according to report, which quotes IDF intelligence unit’s years-long WhatsApp messages to Damascus
By ToI Staff
Weapons and other equipment that the Israeli army says belonged to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, seized by the army during its ground operation in south Lebanon, are displayed for the media on December 23, 2024, in a northern Israeli military base. (Jack Guez/AFP)
December 25, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF’s prewar complacency replaced by wariness on every front, proactivism where possible
Security chiefs mistrust Syria’s new rulers and don’t think Hezbollah is finished; assess Iran will seek the bomb but wait to see how Trump will act; favor a hostage deal, for moral and practical reasons
By David Horovitz
Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, picks roses during the Damascene Rose Harvest Festival in the village of al-Marah in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
December 23, 2024, 7:06 pm
Russia denies reports that Bashar al-Assad’s wife, Asma, filed for divorce
Kremlin also denies that UK-born ‘Desert Rose’ requested to leave Moscow, where the Assad family fled as rebels took Damascus
By Agencies
People ride on a motorcycle at the entrance of the Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in the south of Damascus on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
December 22, 2024, 8:25 am
Amid ruins of Damascus camp-city, Palestinian refugees recall horrors of Assad’s regime
Mahmud Khaled Ajaj describes torture he faced in Syrian prison while Haitham Hassan al-Nada recounts being shot, left for dead as a deserter for not wanting to fight in Syrian army
By Dave Clark
A worker sets up a Syrian "revolutionary" flag at the entrance of the Umayyad Mosque ahead of Friday prayers in Damascus, Syria, Friday December 20, 2024. 2024.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 20, 2024, 1:05 pm
US diplomats arrive in Syria to talk to Islamist rulers about country’s future
American envoys to meet with HTS leaders to gauge commitment to democratic transition; US weighs removing terror designation from group, supporting new Syrian government
By Agencies
A damaged poster of the late Syrian president Hafez Assad is seen above the stands of a stadium that was used by the army of ousted president Bashar al-Assad as a military post, in Damascus, Syria, December 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
December 19, 2024, 4:30 pm
Once the power holders under Assad, Syria’s Alawites now fear for their fates
Deposed leader’s minority sect now gripped by uncertainty and worry over reprisals from country’s other 90%, amid looming risk of Muslim extremism
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Syrian fighters from rebel group, observe a location identified as a mass grave for detainees killed under rule of Bashar Assad in Najha, south of Damascus, Syria, December 17, 2024. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)
December 17, 2024, 10:17 pm
War crimes prosecutor says Syrian mass graves expose Assad’s ‘machinery of death’
‘We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,’ says top prosecutor after visit to mass grave; says more than 100,000 people disappeared, tortured to death
By Timour Azhari and Anthony Deutsch
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)
December 16, 2024, 5:39 pm
Breaking silence, Assad denies abandoning Syria despite his flight from rebels
In first statement since overthrow by jihadists, former dictator claims ‘terrorist onslaught’ forced his departure, says he ‘never abandoned resistance in Palestine’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Students drag a toppled statue of late president Hafez al-Assad on the street during a rally near the campus of the Damascus University in the Syrian capital on December 15, 2024. (Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
December 16, 2024, 10:12 am
Damascus students celebrate after Assad’s ouster; Christians remain wary
Three-starred symbol of 2011 uprising begins to be seen in public; local Christian communities hold first services since overthrow, but worry about future under new Islamist rulers
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Syrian holds up a weapon during a celebratory demonstration following the first Friday prayers since Bashar Assad's ouster, in Damascus' central square, Syria, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 14, 2024, 12:22 pm
Rebel leader says insurgents began planning assault on Assad a year ago
In interview with The Guardian, HTS’s Abu Hassan al-Hamwi says group unified factions, overhauled military forces and developed modern doctrine when planning devastating offensive
By ToI Staff
Archbishop Butros Meriati leads the Christmas morning mass at the Armenian Catholic Church in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, on December 25, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
December 14, 2024, 7:58 am
Can Syria’s dwindling Christian community survive under jihadi rebel rule?
Once loyal to the regime, Syrian Christians have ostensibly joined the national celebration after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. But can they trust the new Islamist rulers’ pledges?
By Gianluca Pacchiani
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)
December 13, 2024, 8:39 pm
Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle: Who are they and where are they now?
Some Syrian regime officials believed to have entered Lebanon with fake identification; ousted president and brother most likely in Russia
By BASSEM MROUE
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