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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 340

Syria crisis

File: Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, receives a delegation representing various Arab parliaments in Damascus, February 26, 2023. (SANA via AP)
May 7, 2023, 4:02 pm
Arab League readmits Syria 12 years after its suspension over civil war
Several members, including Qatar, do not attend Cairo meeting; decision also includes commitment to dialogue aimed at reaching political solution to conflict
By MOHAMED WAGDY and Kareem Chehayeb
Jordanian Foreign minister Ayman Safadi (R) meets his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Amman on May 1, 2023, ahead of a regional meeting on Syria (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
May 2, 2023, 11:47 am
Jordan says regional talks with Syria step toward ending Damascus isolation
FM Safadi says Arab envoys discussed Syria’s humanitarian needs, especially post-earthquake, plus drug smuggling and refugee crisis; won’t comment on possible return to Arab League
By OMAR AKOUR
This file photo released July 19, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP)
March 30, 2021, 3:06 pm
Assad and wife recover from COVID-19, as Syria sees spike in cases
The pandemic has been a major challenge for Syria’s healthcare sector, already depleted by 10 years of conflict; Syrian media reports that ICUs in Damascus hospitals full
By Bassam Mroue
This photo taken on January 31, 2019, shows US armored military vehicles patrolling in the countryside of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
February 11, 2019, 11:08 am
US general: Troops could begin leaving Syria in weeks
Joseph Votel says Trump’s withdrawal order clear, but pullback depends on situation on the ground
By ToI Staff
Alexandr Ruzmatovich Bekmirzaev, a 45-year-old Belarusian native and naturalised Irish citizen who was detained along with four other purported foreign jihadists by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), January 11, 2019. (Delil Souleiman / AFP)
January 30, 2019, 11:43 am
Captured Irish jihadist tells of dying days of Islamic State ‘caliphate’
Muslim convert describes starvation, bombing, fleeing through minefields with women and children before being captured by Kurds in Syria
By Delil Souleiman
A Syrian rebel fighter from the recently-formed "National Liberation Front" takes part in combat training at an unknown location in the northern countryside of the Idlib province on September 11, 2018, in anticipation for an upcoming offensive by government forces. (AFP Photo/Aaref Watad)
September 26, 2018, 8:55 pm
The battle for the new Syria
Although the conflict is winding down, regional players will ensure instability for the foreseeable future
By Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on July 1, 2018, flanked by Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman (R) and Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz (L) (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Tsafrir Abayov)
July 1, 2018, 1:18 pm
Netanyahu vows to ‘defend border’ amid Assad onslaught in southern Syria
As IDF sends reinforcements to the Golan Heights, PM reiterates Syrian refugees won’t be allowed into the country
By ToI Staff and AFP
Syrian refugee children play at an informal refugee camp, which is seen set between the houses and buildings in Arsal, near the border with Syria, east Lebanon, Wednesday, June 13, 2018 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
June 30, 2018, 8:25 am
Number displaced by fighting in southern Syria triples to 160,000, says UN
Announcement adds to concerns of a developing humanitarian crisis on Syria’s borders with Israel and Jordan
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: Syrian refugee children look from their tent during a visit by UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, September 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
June 25, 2018, 10:55 am
Jordan says it won’t take in Syrians fleeing new offensive
Russia’s defense ministry says 70 rebels killed as forces loyal to Assad launch assault to retake southern provinces
By Agencies
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)
May 5, 2018, 9:19 pm
Netanyahu to meet Putin next week as Iran tensions rise
Talks held ahead of expected Trump decision to pull out of Iran nuclear deal; PM also to participate in WWII victory parade in Moscow
By ToI Staff
Syrian senior presidential advisor Buthaina Shaaban speaks to a Syrian TV reporter at the United Nations Offices in Geneva, on January 26, 2014. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
April 12, 2018, 11:24 am
Assad adviser: Syria ready for war with West, Israel will be ‘biggest loser’
Buthaina Shaaban tells Lebanese media that Syria is not afraid of confrontation, ‘will be prepared for it if it happens’
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump attends a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House on April 9, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)
April 12, 2018, 6:32 am
Possible US strike on Syria looms large as allies weigh military action
White House says ‘a number of options’ being discussed as Trump launches belligerent Twitter attack on Assad-backer Russia
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May gives a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven following their talks at Rosenbad, Stockholm, Sweden, April 9, 2018. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency via AP)
April 12, 2018, 5:43 am
UK’s May reported to have deployed submarines to Syria coast
British prime minister says Bashar Assad’s apparent chemical weapons use in Douma cannot go unchallenged
By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on January 28, 2018. (AFP/Simon Maina)
April 12, 2018, 5:36 am
UN chief says Security Council must prevent Syria ‘spiraling out of control’
Amid war of words between Washington and Moscow, Antonio Guterres tells ambassadors to focus on ‘ending the terrible suffering of the Syrian people’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during an event marking International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, January 29, 2018. (Vasily Maximov/AFP)
April 11, 2018, 9:23 pm
Putin asks Netanyahu to avoid destabilizing steps in Syria
In phone call, Israeli PM vows to prevent ‘Iranian military entrenchment’ in war-torn country; Russian leader stresses ‘importance of respecting’ its sovereignty
By ToI Staff
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