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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

fall of Assad regime

Syrian children play on an damaged tank in Homs, on December 20, 2024. (Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
January 14, 2025, 4:10 pm
Unexploded ordnance in Syria killing children at ‘alarming’ rate, UN warns
Over 100 kids killed or injured in last month, UNICEF reports, as explosives litter country after almost 14 years of civil war; tens of millions of dollars needed to clear them
By AFP
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 Qatar Airways plane, the first international commercial flight since the fall of the Assad regime, lands at Damascus International Airport, January 7, 2025. (AP/ Omar Sanadiki)
January 7, 2025, 11:19 pm
First international commercial flight since Assad’s ouster lands at Damascus Airport
Some passengers aboard Qatar Airways plane arrive for first visit since before start of civil war in 2011; Royal Jordanian Airlines runs test flight to assess airport
By ABDULRAHMAN SHAHEEN and OMAR AKOUR
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
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
Stacks of Syrian pound banknotes are piled on top of each other at a currency trader's stall at a market in the city of Manbij, currently controlled by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army faction, in Syria's northern Aleppo province on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 1:47 pm
US to ease curbs on supplies to Syria but keep sanctions in place
Outgoing Biden administration intends move as goodwill gesture to country’s new rulers, while maintaining leverage to ensure Islamists keep promise to form inclusive government
By Reuters
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
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger delivers remarks during a press preview of the use of drones in humanitarian work in Avully near Geneva, on June 7, 2023. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
January 5, 2025, 2:13 pm
Red Cross says locating missing Syrians after Assad’s downfall likely to take years
Organization is currently dealing with at least 43,000 missing people in ‘massive task’ that may fail in some cases, urges de facto leaders to preserve evidence
By Maher Al Mounes
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
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
A screenshot of video showing a fireball in the air following reported Israeli strikes near Syria's Aleppo, late January 2, 2025. (X screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 3, 2025, 5:53 am
Israel said to hit defense facility, scientific research center near Syria’s Aleppo
Local residents says the intensive strikes, the latest of many since Assad’s fall, ‘turned the night into day’
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Relatives take part in a protest demanding the whereabouts of four activists who disappeared during the war between opposition groups and former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, in Douma, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
January 1, 2025, 9:39 pm
Syrians protest to demand justice and accountability for disappeared activists
Fall of Assad regime reawakens questions over the fate, among others, of Razan Zaitouneh, a prominent activist who criticized both the Syrian government and rebels
By OMAR ALBAM and Sally Abou Aljoud
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
Bakhour Chamntoub, 74, right, the head of the Jewish community in Syria and one of the people who refused to leave Syria despite opportunities abroad and the nearly 14-year-old war, speaks with a Syrian man during his visit to the destroyed Jobar Synagogue, also known as Eliyahu Hanavi, in Jobar neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
December 29, 2024, 4:19 pm
Assad’s fall enables access to ruined 2,700-year-old Damascus synagogue; only 9 Jews remain
Leader of tiny Syrian community visits destroyed Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in capital’s Jobar neighborhood, recounts years of site being off-limits during civil war
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
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