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A picture taken from the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows Israeli flares illuminating the Palestinian coastal enclave, on July 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)
July 15, 2018, 2:49 am
Iron Dome downs one of two rockets fired from Gaza in second night of unrest
Projectiles, which follow earlier mortar attacks, come hours after ceasefire due to put end to flare-up between Hamas and Israel
By TOI staff
Illustrative. A picture taken on July 14, 2018, shows Palestinian rockets being fired from Gaza toward Israel (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
July 15, 2018, 1:08 am
Hours after ceasefire reached, Gaza mortar shells strike southern Israel
IDF blows up source of shelling; no group takes responsibility for the attack, which sends residents of the Eshkol region running for shelter
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
An IDF tank deployed to the Golan Heights, near the Syria border, on July 1, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 6, 2018, 3:22 pm
IDF attacks Syrian regime position after shell hits in buffer zone
Israeli army stresses it will insist on maintenance of 1974 ceasefire deal, which set up demilitarized zone between Israel, Syria
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
May 17, 2018, 2:43 pm
Hamas says Israel rejected its offers for prisoner exchange deal
Gaza terror group accuses Jerusalem of rebuffing proposal, which reportedly also included long-term truce
By Michael Bachner
Palestinian protestors burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces during clashes on the Gaza-Israel border in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
May 9, 2018, 5:01 pm
Western country said brokering Israel-Hamas talks on long-term ceasefire
Terror group reported to have initiated indirect talks, but Israel refusing to consider lifting Gaza blockade until 'threat' of Palestinian mass marches is over
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to hurl stones towards Israeli security forces near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis during the fifth straight Friday of mass demonstrations and clashes along the Gaza-Israel border on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
May 7, 2018, 8:47 am
Hamas said to offer Israel long-term ceasefire in Gaza
Proposal reportedly says Gaza terror group wants significant easing of blockade, approval of infrastructure projects and possibly a prisoner swap; no immediate Israeli response
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
People wave a flag of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah as the group's ambulance convoy drives past, carrying bodies of fighters killed in week-long clashes in the Jurud Arsal border region, as part of a ceasefire deal. (AFP/Stringer)
July 30, 2017, 4:38 pm
Hezbollah, Al-Nusra exchange bodies in Syria-Lebanon border truce
Ceasefire ends six days of a Hezbollah-led assault on jihadists on restive Lebanon-Syria border
By AFP and TOI staff
Illustration: A video released by the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow shows a Russian warplane unloading its weapons over a Syrian target, August 10, 2016. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)
July 11, 2017, 2:56 pm
Rebels say they downed Syrian warplane near ceasefire zone
Truce that came into effect Sunday has brought relative quiet to most provinces, but outbreaks of violence have been reported
By AFP
A tractor removes rubble as the Syrian government starts to clean up areas formerly held by opposition forces in the northern city of Aleppo on December 27, 2016, in the Shaar district. (AFP/George Ourfalian)
December 30, 2016, 12:54 am
Guns quiet across Syria as breakthrough truce takes effect
Ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey begins with Damascus calling the move a 'real opportunity' for a settlement after almost six years of fighting
By Agencies
This Thursday Sept. 1, 2016 file photo, provided by the Syria Press Center (SPC), an anti-government media group, shows civilians leaving the town of Suran, in Hama province, Syria. (Syria Press Center via AP, File)
September 16, 2016, 5:54 am
Syrian military begins to withdraw from vital Aleppo road
As UN accuses Assad regime of blocking aid convoys, Russian troops prepare to secure their access to war-ravaged city
By Jamey Keaten and PHILIP ISSA
Syrian pro-regime fighters walk in a bombed-out steet in Ramussa on September 9, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / GEORGE OURFALIAN)
September 13, 2016, 6:46 am
Syria’s ‘last chance’ ceasefire enters first tenuous day
Hours after truce sponsored by US and Russia takes effect, sources on the ground say fighting appears to have stopped on nearly all fronts
By Karam al-Masri and Maher Al Mounes
A fighter from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army) sits near smoke billowing on the front-line, which they use to take cover, in the village of Tal al-Siwan area of the rebel-held stronghold of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, on September 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)
September 12, 2016, 7:23 pm
Syria ceasefire comes into effect under US-Russia deal
Moscow says it will 'continue to carry out strikes against terrorist targets' as 48-hour truce begins
By AFP
Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures during an interview in the capital Damascus on February 11, 2016. (AFP/Joseph Eid)
February 23, 2016, 12:14 am
Syria’s Assad sets April 13 parliamentary elections
As US, Russia announce ceasefire, president issues decree which includes seat allocations for all provinces in war-torn country
By AFP
Pakistan's National Security Adviser Sartaj Aziz (right) shakes hands with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj at Pakistan's foreign ministry in Islamabad on December 9, 2015, ahead of talks. (AFPAamir Qureshi)
December 9, 2015, 7:44 pm
India and Pakistan agree to high-level peace talks
Breakthrough raises hopes for a thaw in relations between nuclear powers that have clashed over territorial disputes
By AFP
Syrian army defectors gather at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on January 20, 2012 (AP)
August 27, 2015, 1:25 pm
Syria regime, rebels agree to new truce in three towns
Two-day ceasefire starts in Zabadani, Fuaa and Kafraya as negotiations between the sides continue
By AFP
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