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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 648

Tom Barrack

A handout photo released by the Lebanese Presidency press office on July 7, 2025, shows US envoy Thomas Barrack speaking to the press after his meeting with Lebanon's president at the presidential palace of Baabda east of Beirut. (Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
July 7, 2025, 4:15 pm
US envoy ‘unbelievably’ satisfied with Lebanese response on disarming Hezbollah
Thomas Barrack calls plan to dismantle Iran-backed terror group’s military infrastructure ‘spectacular,’ says ‘Hezbollah needs to see that there’s a future for them’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Israeli military vehicle crosses the fence, returning from the buffer zone with Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on December 10, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
July 4, 2025, 5:40 pm
Syria says willing to work with US on return to 1974 disengagement deal with Israel
Statement by Syrian FM comes as Washington seeks Syria-Israel normalization; accord created UN-patrolled buffer zone, which Israel seized following ouster of Assad in December
By AFP and ToI Staff
A defaced portrait of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad hangs on a wall in the capital Damascus on June 2, 2025. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
June 3, 2025, 9:56 am
Six months after Assad’s ouster, Syria faces major security, economic challenges
Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to rebuild national institutions in a fractured country and revive an economy just emerging from decades of war and sanctions
By AFP
Members of security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government pose together with their firearms as they stand by the Mediterranean sea coast in Syria's western city of Latakia on March 9, 2025. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
June 2, 2025, 10:06 pm
US approves of Syrian plan to absorb foreign jihadists into its army, Trump envoy says
Amid countries’ rapprochement, White House okays Sharaa government’s proposal to form unit including some 3,500 fighters from abroad — mostly Chinese Uighurs
By Reuters and ToI Staff
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack raises the American flag at the US ambassador's residence in Damascus, Syria, on May 29, 2025. (SANA via AP)
May 29, 2025, 4:52 pm
US reopens ambassador’s residence in Syria, suggests non-aggression pact with Israel
Raising flag in Damascus, American envoy Tom Barrack says Israel-Syria conflict solvable through dialogue, as Washington rolls back Assad-era sanctions
By Agencies
Thomas Barrack, nominee to serve as the US ambassador to Turkey, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski /Getty Images via AFP)
May 21, 2025, 3:01 pm
US to appoint its ambassador to Turkey as special envoy for Syria, sources say
State Department says no announcement yet on Thomas Barrack, a longtime friend of president; move comes as administration builds ties with new Damascus regime
By Timour Azhari and Jonathan Spicer
Tom Barrack exits Brooklyn Federal Court on Oct. 21, 2022, in New York (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
October 25, 2022, 7:55 am
Trump clueless on foreign policy, seen as unable to spell ‘Middle East,’ ally says
Accused of exploiting their friendship, Tom Barrack tells court he wanted ex-US president to encourage UAE, Saudi Arabia to align with Israel and bring stability to oil-rich region
By Tom Hays
This photo from Thursday Jan. 19, 2017, shows Inaugural Committee chairman Tom Barrack speaks at a pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Barrack, chair of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee, was arrested Tuesday, July 20, 2021 in California on charges alleging that he and others conspired to influence Trump's foreign policy positions to benefit the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
July 21, 2021, 1:17 am
Top Trump ally arrested for being UAE agent, conspiring to influence US policy
Tom Barrack, billionaire chair of Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, charged along with two others with acting as an unregistered foreign agent; plans to plead not guilty
By brian melley and Larry Neumeister
Tom Barrack takes the stage to speak during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
July 30, 2019, 6:27 am
Trump friend pushed Saudi nuke deals while seeking Mideast envoy job — panel
Report by Democrat-led House Oversight committee finds donor Tom Barrack used White House access to lobby for corporations seeking to sell nuclear technology to Riyadh
By AP
Tom Barrack speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, January 10, 2017 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 6, 2018, 2:47 am
Mueller team questions Trump friend Tom Barrack
Real estate developer interviewed as part of investigation of possible coordination between president’s campaign and Russia
By Tom Lobianco, Jonathan Lemire and Alan Suderman
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