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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Russian support of Syria

Soldiers of a Russian military convoy and their US counterparts pose for pictures as their patrol routes intersect in an oil field near Syria's al-Qahtaniyah town in the northeastern Hasakah province, close to the border with Turkey, on Octobre 8, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
October 11, 2022, 1:30 am
Russian, US troops in Syria hold their fire in rare congenial moment
Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as mementos of the interaction
By Delil Souleiman
Destruction in Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, after shelling by Russian forces, March 2, 2022. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 6:16 pm
Putin’s Syria and Chechnya playbooks foretell a grim direction for Ukraine war
With invasion appearing to slow, some worry Russian president will turn to indiscriminate artillery and missile strikes against civilians, as he has in the past
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Cecile Feuillatre
Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)
January 31, 2022, 5:39 am
Israeli airstrikes said to hit Hezbollah targets near Damascus
Strikes are first since Russia publicly carried out joint air-defense patrols with Syrian air force; state TV says attack caused ‘material damage’
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on June 25, 2021, a pair of the Russian air force's Tu-22M3 bombers taxi at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
January 24, 2022, 10:34 pm
Israel said holding talks with Russia over Syria standoff, may limit air campaign
Moscow reportedly announces joint jet patrols with Damascus will become regular occurrence; report claims Israeli officials struggling to understand reason for sudden policy change
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet carrying a Kinzhal missile takes off from the Hemeimeem air base in Syria on June 25, 2021. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
January 24, 2022, 3:12 pm
Russia said conducting joint patrols of Syrian border airspace, including over Golan
As tensions mount between Putin and world powers over Ukraine, Moscow appears to make a statement regarding its presence in the Middle East
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
April 16, 2021, 8:57 am
How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent
Under Netanyahu’s leadership, the Jewish state survived the difficult early years to come out on top as Iran and jihadists are on the defensive
By Lazar Berman
In this November 1, 2019 file photo, Turkish and Russian soldiers patrol near the town of Darbasiyah, Syria. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)
March 5, 2020, 10:44 pm
Russia, Turkey announce ceasefire in northwestern Syria
Agreement sees end to hostilities beginning at midnight along existing battle lines, as well as joint patrols to stem bloodshed in war-torn Idlib province
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Suzan Fraser
This December 11, 2017 photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad watching troops march at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 7, 2020, 7:41 pm
Putin makes surprise visit to Damascus to meet Assad as Mideast boils
Russian leader on first trip to Syrian capital since start of 2011 civil war, which comes amid soaring US-Iran tensions and fears of war
By AFP
A picture taken during a guided tour with the Russian army shows Syrian elite soldiers taking part in an instruction session with Russian military trainers at an army base in Yafour, some 30 kilometers west of Damascus, September 24, 2019,(Maxime POPOV / AFP)
September 25, 2019, 3:55 pm
Russian military ‘advisers’ train new Syrian battalion
In rare display of Moscow’s military operations in war-torn country, regime troops show off new weapons skills, perform mine clearing exercises and carry out mock assaults
By Maxime Popov
An airplane takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, on November 15, 2018. (Flash90/File)
August 5, 2019, 9:22 pm
Disruption of GPS systems at Ben Gurion Airport resolved after 2 months
No details given on how or why interference to planes’ navigation systems came to an end; Russian military in Syria blamed
By ToI Staff
This file photo taken on May 23, 2019 shows smoke rising following reported Syrian government bombardment on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the southern countryside of the rebel-held Idlib province. (Anas Al-Dyab/AFP)
August 2, 2019, 2:00 am
Syria says it agrees to cease-fire in rebel stronghold
Decision comes hours after UN launches probe into attacks on health facilities and schools in Idlib amid three-month offensive by Assad regime and Russian warplanes
By Albert Aji and Edith M. Lederer
This undated photo shows Israeli spy Eli Cohen, in Syria, wearing a wristwatch recovered by the Mossad in 2018. (Prime Minister's Office)
April 17, 2019, 11:36 pm
Russia denies recovering remains of spy Eli Cohen from Syria
Moscow chides Israeli media, calls reports that it found remains of legendary agent a ‘provocation’
By AP and ToI Staff
In this Aug. 13, 2018 file photo, a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, half-covered by a national flag, hangs at the border crossing point of Jdedeh Yabous, Syria. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
March 13, 2019, 4:53 pm
After 8 years of war, Assad clings to power, but foreign powers remain on turf
Syrian dictator emerges from devastating conflict politically safe, though his country is fractured and cash-strapped
By Layal Abou Rahal
Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, right, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, center, in Beirut, Lebanon, July 26, 2018 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar/File)
January 28, 2019, 8:53 pm
Netanyahu to meet top Russian diplomats Tuesday, with Syria reportedly on agenda
Moscow’s deputy foreign minister and envoy on Syria hold ‘productive’ talks with Israeli Foreign Ministry chief
By ToI Staff
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at the State Department in Washington, July 17, 2017 (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
January 26, 2019, 6:16 am
Russia denies allying with Iran in Syria, says Israeli security a ‘top priority’
Deputy FM tells CNN that efforts to distance Iranian forces from the Israeli-Syrian border were undercut by reimposition of US sanctions
By ToI Staff
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