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Syrian conflict

A large Syrian flag is raised on a pole at Tishreen Park in Damascus on June 4, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
June 4, 2025, 6:21 pm
Syria says ‘will never be threat to anyone in region’ after rocket fire on Israel
IDF, Katz blame Syrian regime for attack claimed by shadowy jihadi group named for Hamas commander; Damascus condemns Israeli retaliation; no injuries reported in either attack
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 9, 2025, shows Syrian forces deploying in the town of Qadmus in Syria's Tartus governorate. (SANA/AFP)
March 9, 2025, 3:25 pm
Syrian leader Sharaa calls for peace as over 1,000, mostly civilians, killed in clashes
Fighting between security forces and pro-Assad militants is worst in years; death toll, mostly of Alawites, considered among highest in Syria since 2013 chemical weapon attack
By Jaidaa Taha and Suleiman Al-Khalidi
In this image from video provided by the US Air Force, a Russian fighter jet flies close to a US MQ-9 reaper drone over Syria on July 23, 2023. (US Air Force via AP)
July 27, 2023, 12:36 pm
Russian fighter jet again strikes US drone over Syria in 6th incident this month
Experts suggest Moscow is conducting the harassing attacks to support Iran’s goal of ousting US forces from Syria, easing its ability to provide lethal aid to Hezbollah
By TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on May 7, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
May 9, 2023, 4:26 pm
What drove Syria’s return to the Arab League, and what impact will it have?
Analysts suggest Damascus’s former allies have recognized that 12 years of shutting Assad out had little practical effect on conflict
By Kareem Chehayeb and ABBY SEWELL
File: A member of the Alawite community pasting on a wall in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli pictures of Syrian opposition leader Rifaat Assad (R) and his son Ribal, December 6, 2007. (Ramzi Haidar/AFP)
September 7, 2022, 11:11 pm
French court upholds Assad uncle’s conviction under ‘ill-gotten gains’ law
Rifaat Assad found guilty of conspiracy to launder public money, tax fraud; law may enable return of money to Syrian public
By Anne Lec'hvien
A woman holds her crying child at the cancer ward of the Children's Hospital in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
April 3, 2022, 10:08 am
In war-torn Syria, a charity offers hope to kids with cancer
BASMA is the largest association within the country offering free cancer diagnoses and treatment, after conflict devastated the health care system
By OMAR SANADIKI
A woman hangs laundry in a flooded refugee camp in Idlib province, Syria, December 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
December 22, 2021, 6:31 pm
Syrian war killed 3,700 in 2021, lowest annual toll since outbreak a decade ago
According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of the casualties were civilians and among those 360 were children
By AFP
Syrian Tourism Minister Mohammed Rami Martini speaks during a press conference in Damascus on November 24, 2021 (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
November 26, 2021, 5:16 am
Syria hopes for return of European tourists
Minister says arrival numbers are rising again after period of relative calm following decade of civil war
By AFP
A fireball erupts from the site of an explosion that reportedly targeted a joint Turkish-Russian patrol on the strategic M4 highway, near the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, on July 14, 2020. (Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP)
September 26, 2021, 2:57 pm
Alleged Russian airstrike kills at least 7 Turkey-backed fighters in north Syria
Attack on Hamza Division comes amid increasing tensions between Assad’s forces and insurgent groups who still have a stronghold in parts of the country
By AP
A picture taken on February 3, 2018, shows Syrian men standing at the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR)
April 12, 2021, 4:54 pm
Syrian regime accused of using chemical weapons in 2018 attack
Probe by global watchdog concludes Assad’s air force used the chlorine in strike on town of Saraqib; Syria continues to deny use of chemical weapons
By AFP
Displaced Syrians are seen leaving opposition-held areas of Daraa on June 26, 2018. ( Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)
March 18, 2021, 7:04 pm
From exile, Syrian conflict’s first protesters reflect on a decade of death
Unable to return home, activists from Daraa who set aside their lives to join marches in the streets continue to support a cause that they hope can still prevail
By Sarah El Deeb and Bassam Mroue
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed 'The Beatles,' during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
November 30, 2020, 10:35 am
A long and winding road to US terror charges against Islamic State ‘Beatles’
Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to a cell blamed for the jailing, torture and murder of Western hostages in Syria
By Eric Tucker
Children play with a flaming lump, allegedly containing white phosphorus, on a street in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza strip, January 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
November 9, 2020, 4:05 pm
Human toll of incendiary weapons documented in new report
Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School call for closing of loopholes in international law allowing countries, including Israel, to use white phosphorus
By AP and ToI Staff
FILE - In this August 20, 2013, file photo, Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
August 18, 2020, 5:47 pm
Climate change a national security threat, but government ‘in denial,’ MKs hear
Despite clear links between rising heat, water shortages and conflict, Israel still sees global warming as narrow environmental concern, doing little to prepare
By Sue Surkes
US President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
May 21, 2019, 8:29 am
Congress to Trump: Protect Israel as Syrian civil war ends
Bipartisan letter from 400 lawmakers calls on US president to safeguard Israel’s interests
By Ron Kampeas
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