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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 585

Syrian civil war

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on February 25, 2019. (SANA via AP)
May 1, 2025, 5:35 pm
Document shows Iran had imperial plans in Syria that were foiled by Assad’s collapse
A 33-page study found in Iran’s ransacked embassy in Damascus outlines what Tehran saw as its version of ‘Marshall Plan’ to economically and militarily control Syria
By John DAVISON, Allison Martell and Reade Levinson
Security forces of Syria's new Islamist government stand guard on the road leading to the airport, in the Damascus' suburb of Jaramana on April 29, 2025. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)
April 30, 2025, 10:50 am
Under new regime, Syria’s Alawites are evicted from private homes at gunpoint
Um Hassan says she was forced to surrender Damascus home within 24 hours after brother arrested; rights group says thousands of such cases have taken place
By Amina Ismail
Syrian security forces standing guard in a street in the mostly Druze and Christian Jaramana suburb of Damascus on April 29, 2025. (Syrian Interior Ministry Facebook Page / AFP)
April 29, 2025, 3:04 pm
More than a dozen killed in Druze town near Damascus in latest sectarian clashes
Sunni gunmen converge on Jaramana over purported recording of Druze man cursing Prophet Mohammad; Interior Ministry vows to hold perpetrators to account
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, with his siblings from left to right, Sakina, 8, Nahla, 9, and Aya, 5, at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, April 9, 2025. (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)
April 20, 2025, 12:05 pm
‘There were days I didn’t want to live anymore’: Land mine horrors persist in Syria
Watchdog finds that since 14-year civil war ended in December with fall of Assad, munitions have killed 249 people, including 60 children, and injured 379
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Sally Abou Aljoud
Accompanied by unidentified members of the delegation, U.S. congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), second from right, walks in the Old City of Damascus Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
April 19, 2025, 2:13 am
Republican US congressmen visit Syria, meet with new leadership, local Christians
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas separately meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus; Syria’s FM to reportedly soon visit US as Islamist-led government pushes for lifting of sanctions
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Syrian Alawite families who fled the clashes in Syria hold their luggages as they cross a river marking the border between Syria and northern Lebanon near the village of Heker al-Daher in Akkar province, Lebanon, March 11, 2025. (Hussein Malla/AP)
April 15, 2025, 12:15 pm
Fearful Syria’s Alawites still face attacks a month after wave of deadly violence
Members of former ruling minority say Sunni vengeance against ousted regime has continued, as tens of thousands flee to neighboring Lebanon
By BASSEM MROUE and Kareem Chehayeb
Syrian interim President Ahmed Sharaa speaks in Damascus, Syria, March 29, 2025. (Syrian Presidency/AFP)
March 30, 2025, 5:19 am
Syria swears in new transitional government four months after ousting Assad
Members of minority groups including a Christian woman, a Kurd, and and an Alawite given cabinet positions as Damascus aims to convince West to lift crippling sanctions
By GHAITH ALSAYED and BASSEM MROUE
A member of the Syrian forces stands on a vehicle during deadly violence in which some 1,500 members of Bashar al-Assad's Alawite sect were killed, in Latakia, Syria, March 7, 2025. (Karam al-Masri/Reuters)
March 24, 2025, 4:04 pm
Investigating their own killings: Alawites claim the new regime was behind massacre
Messages from survivors of the sectarian violence in which over 1,500 civilians were killed describe methodical carnage, decry the duplicity of Syria’s new leadership
By Nurit Yohanan
Syrian Civil Defense and first responders rescue a victim from the site of an explosion in Syria's western coastal city of Latakia, March 15, 2025. (Sana / AFP)
March 16, 2025, 1:41 pm
At least 16 killed as ordnance from Syrian civil war explodes in port city Latakia
White Helmets report 18 wounded after blast in recent flashpoint area; blast said to have occurred when scrap dealer handled explosive left over from 13-year-conflict
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Syrian security forces stand guard as people chant and wave national flags amid celebrations on the fourteenth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, at a rally in Umayyad Square in Damascus on March 15, 2025. (Bakr AlKasem/AFP)
March 16, 2025, 6:43 am
Syrians commemorate uprising anniversary for first time since Assad’s fall
Security forces in Damascus hand out flowers to demonstrators who gather in public square that was once the sole preserve of the ousted president’s supporters
By Maher Al Mounes
An Israeli airstrike, captured in footage published by the military, targets a building in Damascus, Syria, alleged to be a Palestinian Islamic Jihad nerve center. (Screenshot: Israel Defense Forces)
March 13, 2025, 4:15 pm
IDF strikes alleged Islamic Jihad nerve center in Damascus, said to be leader’s house
Member of terror group says Ziad Nakhaleh wasn’t home and building was ’empty’ when struck, though war monitor reports one person killed
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, members of the Syrian White Helmets collect the bodies of people found dead following a recent wave of violence between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former president Bashar al-Assad, as well as subsequent sectarian attacks, in the coastal city of Baniyas, Syria, March 9, 2025. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
March 13, 2025, 11:55 am
Syria shows signs of peril and promise in a week of violence and diplomacy
Though the new regime in Damascus seems to have quelled sectarian violence and secured a deal to merge Kurdish forces into the army, analysts say the leadership has a long way to go
By ABBY SEWELL
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (R) shaking the hand of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi after the signing of an agreement to integrate the institutions of the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration in the northeast into the national government, in the Syrian capital Damascus on March 10, 2025. (SANA / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 11:13 pm
Syrian government inks breakthrough deal with Kurdish authorities in northeast
Accord states US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces to be integrated into national army over a decade after formation, during outbreak of civil war
By AFP
Syrian attend the funeral of a relative, killed in the days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the former government, in the town of Jableh in the coastal province of Latakia on March 10, 2025. (Photo by Abdulwajed HAJ ESTEIFI / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 8:22 pm
Sa’ar urges global leaders to denounce ‘pure evil’ of Sharaa’s Syria after killings
Foreign minister says Israel’s warnings over new Islamist rulers were accurate after over 1,000 killed in Alawite enclave; Sharaa dismisses Israel’s accusations as ‘nonsense’
By Nava Freiberg, Agencies and ToI Staff
Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government attach a turret atop an armored vehicle parked along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia, March 9, 2025. (Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)
March 10, 2025, 8:22 am
Syria vows accountability after over 1,000 reportedly slain in mass killings
Interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa accuses Assad loyalists and foreign powers of fomenting unrest with aim of dragging country back into civil war
By Agencies
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