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Syrian fire on the Golan Heights

Druze clerics greet each other as they await visiting counterparts from Syria in a bus through a border barrier guarded by Israeli soldiers, near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
May 14, 2025, 12:36 pm
‘Maybe God put Druze in Israel to save the Druze there’: Minority fights for Syrian cousins
For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a commitment to strengthen their rights as Israeli citizens
By Diana Bletter
Smoke billows above buildings after an alleged Israeli strike on the outskirts of Damascus on November 22, 2023. (AFP)
January 2, 2024, 10:33 am
Israeli strikes blast sites outside Damascus as border tensions grow
IDF says it hit Syrian Army targets in response to rocket fire on Golan Heights; Syria says ‘material losses’ caused
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers patrol the border fence with Syria, in southern Golan Heights, on January 29, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 8, 2023, 11:25 pm
IDF: 6 rockets fired from Syria at Golan Heights; military retaliates with strikes
Three projectiles cross into Israeli territory in 2 separate barrages, causing no casualties or damage; residents told to open bomb shelters, stay near safe zones
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, right, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)
March 22, 2019, 3:41 am
By recognizing Golan, Trump seen ‘solving’ a problem that doesn’t exist
The status quo on the plateau, in which Israel’s control was neither recognized nor challenged, will likely be upended by president’s move, and not in Israel’s favor, experts warn
By Raphael Ahren
In this photo provided on November 5, 2018, by the Iranian Army, a Sayyad 2 missile is fired by the Talash air defense system during drills in an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army/AP)
January 21, 2019, 1:42 pm
Firing at Golan, Iran seeks new balance of deterrence with Israel; it may fail
Expansive IDF assault on Iranian installations reveals to all parties, and especially Tehran, that the Jewish state retains the upper hand on northern frontier and will use it
By Avi Issacharoff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and US National Security Adviser John Bolton meeting at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on January 6, 2019. (Matty Stern/ US Embassy Jerusalem)
January 6, 2019, 8:59 pm
Hosting top Trump aide, PM asks US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan
Netanyahu plans to go to northern border Monday with National Security Adviser Bolton, who reassures Israel over Syria withdrawal
By Raphael Ahren
A picture taken on July 24, 2018 from the Tal Saki hill in the Golan Heights shows several explosions caused by aerial bombardment across the border in Syria. (AFP / JALAA MAREY)
July 24, 2018, 11:28 pm
Islamic State said to capture body of downed Syrian pilot
Plane shot down by Israel after crossing border said to have crashed in small pocket of land held by terror group in southwest Syria
By Agencies
Illustrative: Smoke plumes rising from regime bombardment on the town of Al-Mulayhah al-Sharqiyah in the eastern Daraa province countryside in southern Syria, June 21, 2018. (Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)
June 26, 2018, 6:59 am
Israeli missiles strike near Damascus airport, Syrian state media claims
Observer group says reported attack targeted Hezbollah arms depots; Assad forces ‘failed to intercept the missiles’
By ToI Staff and AFP
A UN post in the demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Syria on the Golan Heights reportedly taken over by pro-Assad troops in June 2018. (Kan screen capture)
June 24, 2018, 10:15 pm
Pro-Assad troops take over Golan UN post in demilitarized area on Israeli border
IDF hints it may act to remove soldiers by force, noting the new position marks a violation of the post-1973 separation of forces agreement
By ToI Staff
A man seen at the entrance to a bomb shelter that was opened in the Golan Heights, in northern Israel, May 8, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
May 11, 2018, 4:03 am
After missile barrage, some in Golan seek shelter as others find serenity
Kibbutz residents say Thursday’s cross-border exchange didn’t rattle them, but in Druze villages a lack of bomb shelters leaves jitters over the next time missiles may fly
By Jacob Magid
A man inside a bomb shelter in the northern Israeli city of Safed, May 8, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 9, 2018, 9:50 am
As border tensions rise, army urges Golan residents not to disrupt daily lives
Amid fears of Iranian retaliation, border towns prepare bomb shelters but say schools and other activities operating normally
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Smokes billows from the southern Syrian Druze village of Hadar on November 3, 2017, as seen from the Israeli Golan Heights. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)
April 23, 2018, 5:45 pm
Israel strikes Syrian army position after mortar shell hits Golan
IDF targets Assad regime artillery cannon in response to apparent spillover fire that landed near the border earlier in the day
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Syrian army tanks are positioned on the eastern outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on February 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)
April 5, 2018, 1:50 pm
Assad regime places tanks, artillery in buffer zone with Israel
Israel expected to complain to UN over Syrian army deployment in demilitarized area ahead of regime’s planned assault on rebels, in violation of decades-old agreement
By Michael Bachner
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on October 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 23, 2017, 10:32 pm
Contradicting Liberman, IDF says not clear who fired Syria rockets
Defense minister’s office clarifies earlier remark Hezbollah behind rockets, says assertion ‘according to his own assessment and judgment’
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends an event of his Yisrael Beytenu party in Jerusalem on September 13, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 23, 2017, 5:21 pm
Liberman: Rockets from Syria were launched by Hezbollah
Defense minister calls on Russia ‘to restrain’ Lebanese terror group, says Israel holds Assad regime responsible for any fire from country
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
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