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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Jordanian-Syrian Border

Illustrative: Jordanian soldiers stand at the northeastern border with Syria, Feb. 14, 2017. (Raad Adayleh/AP)
January 27, 2022, 12:35 pm
Jordanian military kills 27 in shootout with armed smugglers from Syria
Army says large quantities of narcotics were seized in clashes that also left several people wounded; soldiers acted in line with new rules of engagement to protect border
By Agencies
The Quneitra Crossing between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights reopening after four years, on October 15, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
February 10, 2020, 6:21 pm
Israel returns body of Syrian man found off the coast last year
Red Cross says it acted as ‘neutral mediator’ to facilitate transfer of the remains
By Judah Ari Gross
Syrian children walk in the mud after heavy rain at a displacement camp outside Shamarin, near the border with Turkey in the northern Aleppo province, on December 6, 2018. (Nazeer AL-KHATIB / AFP)
December 9, 2018, 11:07 pm
UN sends urgent aid to hundreds of thousands of Syrians
Agency says major humanitarian operation facilitated by Jordan will see 300 trucks delivering 11,200 metric tons of food, shelter, and medical supplies
By Agencies
IDF and UNDOF soldiers at the Quneitra Crossing between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights, as it reopens after four years, on October 15, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
October 15, 2018, 11:56 am
Border crossing between Israel and Syria opens for first time in 4 years
The passage is only used by UN observers, but it is hoped it will be used by Druze citizens in Israel to visit family in Syria and for the transfer of small amounts of goods
By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies
A picture taken on July 24, 2018 from the Tal Saki hill in the Golan Heights shows smoke rising above buildings across the border in Syria during air strikes backing a Syrian-government-led offensive in the southwestern province of Daraa. (AFP/ JALAA MAREY)
August 2, 2018, 4:51 pm
Jordan says it killed Islamic State jihadists who tried to breach Syrian border
Military used ‘all kinds of weapons’ to stop ‘gang of terrorists’ fleeing regime forces in southern Syria, Amman says, hours after Israel says it killed 7 IS gunmen at its border
By AFP
Iran army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, left, looks into binoculars as he visits and other senior officers from the Iranian military on a front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria, October 20, 2017, in a photo provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)
July 6, 2018, 7:03 pm
As war edges toward end, Iran faces hard fight to keep its influence in Syria
Israel and the US are actively trying to force Tehran out, and even its allies Russia and the Assad regime don’t seem eager for the Islamic Republic to stay
By Avi Issacharoff
Syrians walk carrying their belongings on August 22, 2017 after crossing the Syria-Jordan border near the town of Nasib as they return to their homes following a US-Russia ceasefire brokered in three southern provinces, Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida earlier in the year. (AFP/Mohamad Abazeed)
August 26, 2017, 1:33 pm
Jordan: Ties with Syria regime headed in ‘right direction’
Citing ‘stability’ in southern Syria, Amman looking to open border crossings with its war-torn neighbor
By AFP
Fighters from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army), the foremost rebel group in Damascus province who fiercely opposed to both the Syrian regime and the Islamic State group, hold a position in the rebel-held town of Douma on April 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AMER ALMOHIBANY)
August 12, 2017, 1:06 am
Syria suicide blast kills 23 rebel fighters near Jordan border
Monitor says another 20 in critical condition after bomber detonates explosive belt at base used by opposition group
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with King Abdullah II of Jordan during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 25, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Alexander Nemenov)
January 25, 2017, 10:40 pm
Putin, Jordan’s Abdullah talk Syrian peace push
Leaders praise each other for efforts to reach settlement, as Lavrov prepares for talks with Assad’s opposition
By ToI Staff and AFP
A Syrian refugee woman pushes a stroller at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on March 8, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
October 2, 2016, 2:46 am
Syrians refuse attempted relocation along Jordan border
‘If we move from the Jordanian border, Syrian and Russian planes will come and bomb us,’ warns one refugee
By Sam McNeil
In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 photo, a Syrian refugee family brings their children to school in Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Alameen)
September 2, 2016, 11:10 am
In Jordan, schools to open doors to all Syrian children
90,000 refugee kids weren’t able to attend school last year in kingdom, along with hundreds of thousands more in neighboring countries
By Karin Laub and OMAR AKOUR
Jordanian mourners carry the body of intelligence corporal Omar al-Hayari, one of the five Jordanian intelligence agents killed during a gun attack at the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqaa, on June 6, 2016, during his funeral in Salt, a town west of the capital Amman. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 26, 2016, 9:46 pm
Jordan court charges 21 with terrorism
Announcement follows a month that saw two deadly attacks against security officials
By AFP
Syrian refugees sitting at the al-Roqban makeshift camp, on the border with Syria, September 10, 2015. (AFP/KHALIL MAZRAAWI)
June 21, 2016, 8:05 pm
Jordan closes northern border area after deadly bombing
Amman vows to ‘defeat evil’ as blast near refugee camp kills six troops and wounds 14
By Stuart Winer and AFP
A Syrian refugee woman pushes a stroller at the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian border with Syria, on March 8, 2014. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 21, 2016, 11:12 am
6 Jordanian troops killed, 14 wounded in car bomb attack
Blast hits near tent encampment where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded
By AP
Syrian refugees gather outside their embassy waiting to apply for passports or to renew their old ones in Amman, Jordan, on September 15, 2015. (AP/Raad Adayleh)
April 18, 2016, 11:07 pm
Jordan says 50,000 Syrians stranded on border
Fearing jihadist infiltration, Hashemite Kingdom has increased security checks on asylum seekers fleeing bloody civil war
By AFP
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