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Najwa Mulla, a volunteer, stands in a warehouse in the Druze village of Julis, Galilee, next to boxes of medical supplies that will be sent to hospitals in Sweida, Syria, on August 6, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
August 16, 2025, 9:36 am
In a Galilee war room, Startup Nation’s Druze mobilize to help their Syrian brethren in Sweida
With reports of 1,800 Syrian Druze killed by government-led forces amid acts of rape and cruelty, Israel’s Druze have created a volunteer team tasked with sending medical supplies and support
By Diana Bletter
Syrians gather inside Mar Elias church where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dweila, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, on June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/ Omar Sanadiki)
June 23, 2025, 11:12 pm
World denounces Syria church attack as death toll rises to 25
Attacker in Dweila shot worshipers and detonated an explosive vest, also injuring 63 people, according to Syrian health authorities
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb
People walk past the closed entrance of al-Karawan nightclub after it was attacked by gunmen on May 5, 2025. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)
May 16, 2025, 7:11 am
As new Syria emerges, nightclub attacks awaken fears of return to sectarian repression
Despite official condemnation, deadly assaults on Damascus nightlife by regime loyalists add to mounting concern that Islamist rulers will not make good on promises of tolerance
By Nurit Yohanan
A member of the Druze security forces stands guard in Jaramana in the suburb of Damascus on April 29, 2025, following overnight sectarian clashes. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)
May 1, 2025, 2:48 pm
Some Druze in Syria begin to take up arms, as sectarian violence hits home
Hundreds of armed Druze men are seen setting up positions to defend their towns after dozens killed in attacks near Damascus by Islamists loyal to new government
By AFP and ToI Staff
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa signs the country's constitutional declaration, which will be enforced throughout a five-year transitional period, at the presidential palace in Damascus on March 13, 2025. (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
March 14, 2025, 12:11 am
Syria’s interim president signs constitution enshrining Islamist rule for 5 years
Amid major wave of sectarian violence, which has posed first major challenge of post-Assad Syria, new regime issues constitution which it says will grant equality for all citizens
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Kareem Chehayeb
Minister Israel Katz at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 15, 2024, 6:35 pm
Katz: Despite assurances by rebel leaders, Syria threat requires boost to defense budget
Defense minister says ‘the immediate risks to the country have not disappeared,’ and ‘intensity’ of danger has increased
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)
August 15, 2023, 11:16 am
UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters across Syria and Iraq
Report from United Nations panel says members of group’s sleeper cells pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today
By Edith M. Lederer
Children of foreign Islamic State fighters walk in a playground at the Orkesh rehabilitation center in the countryside of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
March 12, 2023, 4:50 am
Syria center seeks to rehabilitate foreign children scarred by Islamic State
Opened 6 months ago, Orkesh facility houses over 50 boys with Western parents, with Kurdish authorities hoping to avoid ’emergence of a new generation of extremists’
By Delil Souleiman
Illustrative: Reported footage from the scene of an alleged US drone strike in eastern Syria, on July 18, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)
June 28, 2022, 9:56 am
Drone strike targets leader of al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria, US says
US military ‘highly confident’ it killed insurgent, who was hit while alone on motorcycle, in second operation this month against senior terror figures in Syria
By AFP
This picture taken on June 16, 2022 shows a view of a building where US coalition forces conducted an overnight airborne operation in the village of Hmeirah in the Ghandoura district in the north of Syria's Aleppo province (Bakr ALKASEM / AFP)
June 16, 2022, 9:09 am
Senior Islamic State terror leader captured in Syria raid, says US-led coalition
Unnamed ‘experienced bomb maker, facilitator’ is apprehended during operation in Hmeirah; military helicopters touched down for only a few minutes; US says no civilians harmed
By AFP
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon at Mosul's al-Nuri mosque in Iraq during his supposed first public appearance, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)
October 27, 2019, 4:00 pm
Islamic State leader’s death is important, but not a game changer
Killing of Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi by US special forces is symbolic blow, but doesn’t mean end of Islamic terrorism or portend significant change in how IS operates
By Avi Issacharoff
File: Smoke and debris rising after Syrian government shelling of the city of Deir el-Zour during a battle against Islamic State in 2017 (SANA via AP)
January 28, 2019, 7:04 pm
Hundreds of civilians, fighters flee IS stronghold in Syria
Some Islamic State gunmen refusing to surrender, using civilians as human shields, as US-backed group intensifies offensive
By AP
File: Smoke and debris rising after Syrian government shelling of the city of Deir el-Zour during a battle against Islamic State in 2017 (SANA via AP)
January 17, 2019, 6:05 pm
US-led coalition airstrikes pound IS areas in eastern Syria
Aerial bombardment of Deir el-Zour, group’s last stronghold in country, said to be a response to attack that killed 19, including 4 Americans
By AP
In this file photo taken on September 27, 2018, Syrian men ride a motorcycle past heavily-damaged buildings in the rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan, in the north of Idlib province. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
January 10, 2019, 11:53 pm
Al-Qaeda-linked group tightens grip over Syria’s last major rebel-held region
As Hayat Tahrir al-Sham grows dominant over other insurgent groups in rebel holdout Idlib, fears grow over a possible Russian-Syrian offensive
By AP
Police officer stand in front of a mosque in Berlin on Dec. 18, 2018, which is searched as part of an investigation into its imam on suspicion he raised money to support an Islamic fighter in Syria (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)
December 18, 2018, 1:01 pm
German police raid mosque in Berlin in terrorism probe
Authorities say preacher under investigation for raising funds to support a jihadist fighter in Syria
By AP
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