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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Syria

IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on July 7, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 7, 2025, 12:46 pm
For 2nd time in days, IDF says troops arrested terror cell in Syria working for Iran
Military says forces captured several members of IRGC-linked terror cell; UK-based war monitor says IDF raided a village in the Quneitra countryside and detained two brothers
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and AFP
Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, (R) welcomes British Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Damascus, Syria on July 5, 2025. (SANA/AFP)
July 5, 2025, 8:37 pm
Britain reestablishes full Syria ties as foreign secretary visits Damascus
Lammy says it is in UK’s interest to support new government; al-Sharaa regime seeing lifting of sanctions across various sectors
By AFP
This handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency's (SANA) telegram page shows a bulldozer attempting to contain a wildfire sweeping through Qatal Maaf in the Latakia province in Syria's Mediterranean West on July 4, 2025. (SANA / AFP)
July 5, 2025, 6:58 pm
Wildfires rage in Syria for 3rd day, with conditions made worse by unexploded munitions
As flames blaze through western Latakia province, Damascus says unexploded bombs and mines make firefighters’ work even more dangerous; Turkey sends help
By AFP
An advertisement billboard thanking US President Donald Trump is set up on a major roadway in Damascus on June 11, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
July 1, 2025, 4:15 am
Trump formally lifts sanctions shackling Syria amid hopes for transformed Mideast
Executive order follows through on May promise to remove restrictions blocking Damascus from global finance, in move that could bolster bid to bring country into Abraham Accords
By AFP
Pills of captagon are pictured after their burning to be disposed of upon their discovery at Mazzeh Military Airport in the west of Damascus on December 12, 2024. (Aris Messinis/AFP)
June 28, 2025, 4:19 pm
Syrian forces seize 3 million captagon pills in operation near Lebanese border
Damascus says forces set up a roadside ambush that ‘led to clashes between the security forces and members of the cell’; drug was key source of income for ousted Assad regime
By AFP
Emergency services work the scene of a stabbing that took place in Bielefeld, Germany, on May 18, 2025. (Screen capture: Youtube/WDR aktuell)
June 25, 2025, 9:25 pm
Syrian migrant accused of Germany stabbing was Islamic State member, say prosecutors
Mahmoud M., 35, was allegedly a Raqqa-area operative for the terror group until 2016; authorities say he stabbed four people outside Bar in Bielefeld in May as part of ‘holy war’
By AFP
People and rescuers inspect the damage at the site of a reported suicide attack at the Saint Elias church in Damascus's Dwelaa area on June 22, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
June 24, 2025, 11:48 pm
Shadowy jihadist group claims Damascus church attack, as government blames ISIS
Saraya Ansar al-Sunna — possibly an offshoot of Syrian president’s old rebel group HTS — says it ‘blew up the Saint Elias church,’ killing 25, over unspecified ‘provocation’
By AFP
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
Syrian citizens and security forces inspect the damage inside the Mar Elias church where a suicide bomber detonated himself in Dweila, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/ Omar Sanadiki)
June 22, 2025, 10:41 pm
Suicide bomber kills at least 20 in church near Damascus
Syrian government says Islamic State responsible for terror attack inside Greek Orthodox church, condemns ‘cowardly act’ of targeting minority groups
By Agencies
US President Donald Trump applauds on stage at the Al Udeid Air Base, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP/Alex Brandon)
June 19, 2025, 4:24 pm
A look at US military bases in the Middle East as Iran threatens strikes
From Syria on the Mediterranean coast through Iraq, and on to Gulf States of Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, some 40,000 troops are stationed in the region
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This file frame grab from video posted online March 18, 2019, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, shows an IS fighter firing his weapon during clashes with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, in Baghouz, Syria. (Aamaq News Agency via AP, File)
June 12, 2025, 4:22 pm
Islamic State reactivating fighters, eyeing comeback in Syria and Iraq
Western and Middle Eastern authorities see terror group making moves to fill power vacuums, but claim security forces have effective countermeasures in place
By Ahmed Rasheed, Timour Azhari and Michael Georgy
Israeli forces on the border fence with Syria, in the northern Israeli town of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, May 9, 2025. (Michael Giladi/FLash90)
June 11, 2025, 5:00 pm
US rabbi and Trump-linked pastor visit Syria, say peace with Israel possible
Rev. Johnnie Moore and Rabbi Abraham Cooper say they believe Sharaa will be uniquely able to deliver on a peace-making agenda, but first priority must be ‘Syria focusing on Syria’
By Timour Azhari
Illustrative: This picture taken from the Israeli Golan Heights shows smoke billowing above the Syrian Governorate of Quneitra after an Israeli strike, on December 9, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
June 8, 2025, 1:40 pm
IDF says it targeted Hamas member in drone strike in southern Syria
Military does not provide details on target of strike in Beit Jinn, amid campaign aimed at preventing armed Islamist presence near Israel’s northeastern border
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops operate in southern Syria, in a handout photo issued on March 8, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 6, 2025, 11:08 am
BBC says its journalists detained and strip-searched by Israeli forces in Syria
Feras Kilani says his team was held for hours at gunpoint, interrogated, and subjected to threats after filming near IDF positions in the UN buffer zone; no comment from IDF
By Stav Levaton and Emanuel Fabian
This court sketch made on November 4, 2021, shows Osama Krayem on trial for the November 13, 2015 Paris attacks, during the trial taking place in a temporary courtroom set up at the Palais de Justice of Paris. (Benoit PEYRUCQ / AFP)
June 4, 2025, 2:01 pm
Sweden tries sole surviving ISIS jihadist over Jordan pilot burned to death in Syria
Osama Krayem, 32 — already in prison over the 2015 Paris and 2016 Brussels attacks — acknowledges being present at the killing of Moaz al-Kasasbeh, but denies prosecution’s account
By Nioucha ZAKAVATI
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