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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press in a field just outside the Gaza Strip on February 20, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
March 8, 2018, 2:18 pm
Liberman vows not to ‘succumb’ to Haredi ‘extortion,’ even if it means elections
As ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to topple government, Yisrael Beytenu party digs in and insists it will resist fast-tracking of military draft law
By ToI Staff
A general view shows a bus station outside the Hamidiyeh popular market in the old part of the capital Damascus on November 27, 2016. (AFP/LOUAI BESHARA)
January 2, 2017, 9:34 am
Hundreds flee fighting near Syria’s capital despite truce
Government battles insurgents in water-rich Barada Valley region in campaign to restore supplies to Damscus
By AP
The morning after a convoy delivering aid was hit by a deadly air strike a damaged truck carrying aid is seen on the side of the road in the town of Orum al-Kubra on outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, September 20, 2016. (AFP/Omar haj kadour)
September 20, 2016, 1:25 pm
UN suspends Syria convoys after deadly strike on aid trucks
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs to review situation in war-torn country before restarting deliveries
By Agencies
Syrians sit and look at the rubble following an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal, September 18, 2016. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)
September 20, 2016, 12:25 am
Airstrikes hit 20-truck Aleppo aid convoy hours after Syria truce ends
Kerry calls on Russia to rein in Assad, as US says will work with Moscow to reinforce ceasefire, expand aid deliveries
By AFP and AP
Syrian army soldiers sit on furniture placed in the street in the government-controlled part of the besieged town of Daraya on August 26, 2016, as thousands of rebel fighters and civilians prepared to evacuate. (AFP PHOTO/Youssef KARWASHAN)
August 26, 2016, 7:16 pm
Sorrow as Syrian rebel town evacuates after 4-year siege
Daraya’s 8,000 residents leave under deal between Damascus, opposition forces; community among first to rise up against Assad
By Rim Haddad
Illustrative photo of Islamic State fighters in Syria, January 14, 2014 (photo credit: AP/militant website)
November 25, 2014, 8:52 pm
Syrian regime air strikes on IS ‘capital’ kill 63
Rights group says 36 civilians among the dead as forces loyal to President Assad target jihadists in Raqqa
By AFP
Men sitting on a bus pose for a photograph as they evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria, on Friday, February 7, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo)
February 11, 2014, 8:02 am
Evacuations continue in Homs as truce extended
250,000 cut off by regime forces for over a year; aid workers come under fire; no progress in diplomatic efforts to end civil war
By Barbara Surk and Diaa Hadid
Syrian people on two buses followed by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent's vehicles evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Friday, February 7, 2014 (photo credit: AP)
February 9, 2014, 4:12 pm
Syrian official: Aid workers to return to Homs
Beleaguered city had been cut off by Assad forces for 12 months; temporary truce broken Saturday as aid convoy came under fire
By Barbara Surk
Syrian men help survivors out of a destroyed building after a Syrian forces warplane's attack in Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, February 8, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center)
February 9, 2014, 8:47 am
Homs ceasefire falters, aid halted
Three-day truce in beleaguered Syrian city falls apart as aid convoys come under attack
By Diaa Hadid and Bassam Mroue
Syrian civilians look for undamaged furniture, clothes and food in their homes destroyed during clashes between the Free Syrian Army and Syrian soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad, in the countryside of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jaber al-Helo)
January 16, 2014, 11:02 pm
Syria allows aid into 2 contested front-line areas
Enough supplies to feed 10,000 people for a month reportedly enter embattled Damascus suburbs
By AP and Bassam Mroue
A convoy of inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons prepares to cross into Syria at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on Tuesday, October 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)
October 13, 2013, 7:50 pm
Red Cross workers kidnapped in Syria
Gunmen fire on convoy, take seven captive after group delivers medical supplies
By AP and Lazar Berman
Syrian refugees at Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, in early September (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
January 8, 2013, 1:28 pm
Syrian asylum seekers riot in Jordan
Seven aid workers injured as dozens of refugees protest over winter conditions
By Dale Gavlak
May 8, 2012, 2:00 pm
Red Cross to visit another Syrian prison amid sporadic fighting
As violence continues, aid organization obtains access to Aleppo detention facility following a similar mission to Damascus jail last year
March 8, 2012, 2:34 am
Aid, UN humanitarian chief reach Homs as US debates intervention
Neighborhood of Baba Amr devastated after month-long siege; Obama administration hesitant to use force against Assad
A boy chopping wood in Idlib, Syria (photo credit: AP/Rodrigo Abd)
March 7, 2012, 5:57 pm
Red Crescent enters embattled Homs neighborhood
UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos accompanies aid workers into devastated Baba Amr
By Yoel Goldman and AP
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