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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 645

Lebanon-Syria relations

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, left, shakes hands with Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, on April 14, 2025. (Lebanese Government press office via AP)
April 14, 2025, 9:57 pm
Lebanon’s PM visits Syria’s interim president to discuss border, prisoners, refugees
Nawaf Salam and Ahmed al-Sharaa agree to form joint ministerial committee to oversee implementation of March border agreement, after deadly clashes earlier this year
By AP
A meeting between Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Khaled bin Salman (C), Syria's Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra (L) and Lebanon's Defence Minister Michel Menassa, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 27, 2025. (SPA / AFP)
March 28, 2025, 12:57 pm
Lebanon, Syria ink border demarcation deal, easing tensions after Assad’s fall
Beirut and Damascus to increase coordination to ensure security along border, which Hezbollah uses to smuggle weapons, and where deadly clashes broke out earlier this month
By AP
Syrian troops take position in the village of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, located 2 km (1.24 miles) from the Lebanon border, Syria, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
March 18, 2025, 9:10 am
Lebanon and Syria reach ceasefire, ending two days of border clashes
Fighting sparked after Syria accused Hezbollah of kidnapping, killing three Syrian soldiers; Beirut has returned bodies, opened up channels with Damascus to ease tensions
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Lebanese army soldiers deploy in the southern Lebanese village of Mais al-Jabal, 2025. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT/ AFP)
March 17, 2025, 8:09 pm
Lebanon says it will retaliate for gunfire from Syria amid deadly fighting on border
War monitor says 5 Syrian soldiers killed Monday, during clashes that began Saturday, when 3 Syrians were killed in Lebanon in alleged Hezbollah abduction
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The aftermath of a reported Hezbollah rocket attack on the Syria-Lebanon border, March 17, 2025. (Screenshot: X)
March 17, 2025, 12:23 pm
Syrian soldier killed by Hezbollah rocket; 3 dead as Syrian troops shell Lebanon village
2 children reported among dead in Beqaa region as Syrian army operates against terror group; IDF says it hit a command center of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in south Lebanon
By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian
A Syria rebel fighter rips a portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a building reportedly used by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group, in the town of in Qusayr in Syria's central Homs province, on December 15, 2024. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)
March 17, 2025, 1:47 am
3 Syrian troops killed in Lebanon; Damascus accuses Hezbollah of seizing, killing them
Terror group denies involvement, and Lebanese source claims the soldiers crossed the border and were shot by local gunmen in village of Qasr; Syria said to fire missiles at town
By AFP and ToI Staff
People walk along a market alley in the old city of Damascus, Syria, on January 18, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
January 19, 2025, 4:18 pm
Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned since Assad regime fell, UN says
Hundreds of thousands more came back earlier in 2024 from Lebanon, fleeing Israel-Hezbollah conflict; Turkey allowing 3 round trips per refugee family to prepare for resettlement
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), shows Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati (L) shaking hands with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa before their meeting in Damascus on January 11, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
January 12, 2025, 1:07 am
Syria’s Sharaa meets Lebanese PM in bid to improve nations’ ties
Mikati is the first head of government to visit Damascus since Assad regime fell last month; new Syrian leaders looking to get relations back on track with neighbors
By Reuters
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib arrives to attend an extraordinary Arab foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, to discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
December 26, 2024, 3:16 pm
Lebanon hopes for neighborly relations in first message to new Syria government
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib speaks by phone with his Syrian counterpart, Asaad Hassan al-Shibani
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A migrant boat in Mediterranean waters east of Cape Greco in southeastern Cyprus in August 2023 (Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JCC) / AFP)
September 23, 2023, 5:33 pm
Lebanon rescues Syrians in sinking migrant boat
Authorities say they rescued 27 people aboard a vessel that was going down off the country’s coast
By AFP
File: Syrian children run through the snow in the Syrian refugee camp of al-Hilal in the village of al-Taybeh near Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on January 20, 2022. (AFP)
April 28, 2023, 10:16 am
‘I’d rather die’: Syrians in Lebanon fear prison, torture if deported home
With civil war winding down, Lebanon begins crackdown on undocumented refugees as domestic pressure mounts to send back those who poured across border a decade ago
By Aya Iskandarani and Rouba El Husseini
A UNIFIL Navy vessel seen through barbed wires patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, next to a UN post along the border known as Ras Naqoura, where Lebanese and Israeli delegations met to finalize a maritime border agreement, off the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon, October 27, 2022. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)
November 9, 2022, 4:17 pm
After Israel agreement, Lebanon seeks maritime border talks with Syria
Beirut looking to talk to Damascus, which used to control Lebanese affairs, in bid to consolidate offshore rights; area could be bigger than the one disputed with Jerusalem
By AFP
Illustrative: People on the beach take photos of the 'Tungsten Explored' drilling ship, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, November 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)
October 29, 2022, 11:02 am
After Israel deal, Lebanon and Cyprus agree to move forward on maritime border talks
Beirut must complete talks with northern neighbor Syria before the maritime border with Cyprus can be finally demarcated; Damascus has reportedly refused to hold discussions
By AFP
Front row from left to right, Amjad Rawashdeh, the Managing General Director of the Jordanian National Electric Power Company, Kamal Hayek, the Director of Electricity of Lebanon, and Fawaz al-Zaher, General Manager of Syrian Electricity Transmission and Distribution, sign deals to bring electricity from Jordan through Syria to Lebanon, at the Ministry of Energy and Water in Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
January 26, 2022, 4:13 pm
Lebanon inks deals to receive electricity from Jordan via Syria
Agreements expected to bring crisis-ridden nation up to 250 megawatts daily within two months, enough for about two hours of power a day; World Bank to finance arrangement
By Sarah El Deeb
A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel across the border from Syria into Lebanon arrives at the eastern town of al-Ain, Lebanon, on September 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
September 16, 2021, 9:38 pm
Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel deliveries to Lebanon, despite US sanctions
Supporters of terror group greet convoy with heavy celebratory gunfire, rocket-propelled-grenade; 80 trucks carrying four million liters enter the crisis-stricken country
By Agencies
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