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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

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
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
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
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's military chief Murhaf Abu Qasra, known by his nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Hamawi, gives an interview in the Syrian western port city of Latakia, on December 17, 2024. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
December 31, 2024, 4:01 pm
Islamist rebel commander tapped as acting Syrian defense chief
Head of HTS armed wing Murhaf Abu Qasra gets nod as new rulers look to transform insurgents, including foreign jihadi fighters, into army
By Agencies
Members of the new armed forces, former rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, stand in formation as they prepare for a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
December 30, 2024, 6:56 pm
New regime in Syria said to appoint some foreign Islamist fighters to military
Prominent Uighur, Jordanian, and Turkish foreign fighters given military ranks, as Islamist rebel group at core of de facto new government in Syria arranges formal armed forces
By Reuters
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
Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighborhood, in Homs, Syria, December 26, 2024. (AP Photo/ Leo Correa)
December 27, 2024, 1:44 pm
Syria’s Homs settles into uneasy calm after brief eruption of sectarian violence
Security forces flood major mixed city, patrolling and checking IDs, days after gunfire at protest by members of Alawite minority; Christians say new regime protecting churches
By ABBY SEWELL
Security forces deploy outside the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George during the Christmas morning mass in Syria's western coastal city of Latakia on December 25, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
December 26, 2024, 4:52 pm
New Syrian regime declares crackdown in coastal region after 14 policemen killed
Security forces launch operation in Alawite-majority Tartus region, erstwhile stronghold of fallen Assad government, after attack on police blamed on Assad supporters
By Reuters
A handout picture released by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry shows Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi (center left) being received by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani) (center right) in Damascus on December 23, 2024. (Jordanian Foreign Ministry / AFP)
December 23, 2024, 7:06 pm
Arab diplomats flock to Damascus for meetings with new Syrian leader
Jordanian, Qatari, Saudi delegations meet Ahmed al-Sharaa, vowing cooperation against drug and weapons smuggling, support for rebuilding Syria; Iran reports ‘no direct contact’
By Agencies
Fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) inspect damaged and abandoned military vehicles and equipment at the Qamishli international airport, formerly a joint Syrian-Russian military base, in northeastern Syria's city of Qamishli on December 9, 2024. (Delil souleiman / AFP)
December 22, 2024, 12:07 pm
As Turkey moves in following Assad’s fall, Syria’s Kurds are on the defensive
After rebels sweep to power in Damascus, Syrian Kurdish leader asks Trump to prevent northern incursion by Ankara — which views Kurdish factions as a national security threat
By Orhan Qereman, TOM PERRY and Tuvan Gumrukcu
Cars belonging to the US delegation drive in a street in Damascus, Syria, on December 20, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
December 20, 2024, 7:43 pm
US diplomats meet HTS chiefs in Syria, the first in-person contact with new rulers
State Department says officials discussed ‘transition principles’ and battling ISIS with members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is pushing for terror designation to be lifted
By Agencies
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the top of Mount Hermon on the Syrian Side, along with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi (right) and other troops, December 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
December 17, 2024, 11:16 pm
Atop Syrian Hermon, Netanyahu says Israel to stay until ‘another arrangement’ found
PM stresses strategic importance of the summit following fall of Assad, is joined by Katz who says presence will also deter Syrian rebels from setting sights on Israel
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
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