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This picture taken in Kafr Ain on September 7, 2018, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the 'White Helmets,' carrying a victim after airstrikes, four kilometers east of Khan Shaykhun in the southern countryside of Idlib province (AFP PHOTO / Anas AL-DYAB)
April 16, 2019, 10:28 am
US Holocaust museum gives its highest honor to Syria rescue volunteers
Opposition-allied first responders known as the White Helmets to receive 2019 Elie Wiesel prize for ‘courageously saving lives and delivering critical services’
By Josefin Dolsten
IDF soldiers oversee the transfer of 422 'White Helmet' rescue workers and their families through Israel and into Jordan, as they flee the Assad regime, on July 22, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 17, 2018, 8:09 pm
Syrian White Helmets rescued through Israel leave Jordan for West
Amman says 279 of those evacuated from Syria via Golan Heights in daring nighttime operation have been resettled elsewhere
By AFP
A man carries a child rescued from rubble after Syrian regime and Russian air strikes in the rebel-held town of Nawa, about 30 kilometers north of Daraa in southern Syria, June 26, 2018. (Ahmad al-Msalam/AFP)
September 30, 2018, 7:01 pm
In 3 years, Russian strikes on Syria said to kill 18,000, half of them civilians
Moscow has been criticized for indiscriminate air strikes that target civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
By AFP
This image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday, July 22, 2018 shows a member of the White Helmets waving to Israeli soldiers as he and his family board a bus to Jordan. (Israeli Defense Forces via AP)
July 24, 2018, 5:28 pm
Russia slams rescue of Syria’s White Helmets via Israel
Moscow says relief workers transferred to Jordan are ‘pseudo-humanitarians,’ operation shows who they really serve
By Stuart Winer and Agencies
The David's Sling missile defense battery, which represents the middle tier of Israel's multi-layered anti-missile capabilities. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
July 24, 2018, 3:02 pm
Trial by failure: 8 things to know for July 24
David’s Sling misses some Goliath missiles, raising questions; a politician has answers for a stone falling from the Western Wall; and an aid offer is not all Greek to one minister
By Joshua Davidovich
This image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday, July 22, 2018 shows a member of the White Helmets waving to Israeli soldiers as he and his family board a bus to Jordan. (Israeli Defense Forces via AP)
July 24, 2018, 2:03 am
Unsure where they’d end up, some Syrian White Helmets said no to Israel rescue
A further nearly 400 people did not make it through on Saturday night, unable to pass roads blocked by advancing Syrian forces on one side and Islamic State terrorists on the other
By SARAH EL DEEEB
Members of the Syrian Civil Defence volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, remove a victim from the rubble of his house, following a reported air strike by government forces on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, April 8, 2017. (Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)
July 23, 2018, 10:09 pm
Hundreds of ‘White Helmet’ rescuers still stuck in south Syria after evacuation
Those who missed being rescued by Israel and transferred to Jordan now fear wrath of regime forces closing in from all sides
By AFP
Civil defense workers known as the White Helmets carry children after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people, in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria, on June 14, 2017. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
July 23, 2018, 3:42 pm
Syria slams ‘criminal’ evacuation of White Helmet rescuers by Israel
Damascus, which calls civil defense group a front for terrorists, condemns the ferrying of 400 aid workers through Jewish state to Jordan
By AFP
Participants fly an Israeli and pride flag at demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 22, 2018, to protest a new surrogacy law that does not include gay couples. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
July 23, 2018, 3:42 pm
Finding their voice: 6 things to know for July 23
Mass LGBT civil action protesting the exclusion of gay couples from a recently passed surrogacy law strikes a chord in Israeli media
By Tamar Pileggi
IDF soldiers oversee the transfer of 422 'White Helmet' rescue workers and their families through Israel and into Jordan, as they flee the Assad regime, on July 22, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 22, 2018, 8:44 pm
IDF officer: Syrian refugees’ eyes ‘twinkled’ as they crossed through Israel
Military releases footage showing the transfer of 422 ‘White Helmets’ rescue workers and their families, who entered Israel before traveling to Jordan, in a late-night operation
By Judah Ari Gross
Syrian Civil Defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a survivor following reported air-strikes on the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in Eastern Ghouta outside Syria's capital Damascus, March 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Msallam Abdalbaset/File)
July 22, 2018, 7:26 pm
Netanyahu says Trump asked him to help rescue White Helmets from Syria
PM says he approved transporting Syrian rescue workers through Israel to Jordan as an ‘important humanitarian gesture’
By TOI staff
In this photo taken on October 5, 2016, Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, work around destroyed buildings following reported airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)
July 22, 2018, 4:26 pm
Israel wins widespread praise for role in rescue of Syria’s White Helmets
UK foreign secretary thanks Israel and Jordan for helping evacuate hundreds of the civil defense workers, who will be taken in by Western countries
By TOI staff and Agencies
In this photo taken on October 5, 2016, Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, work around destroyed buildings following reported airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)
July 22, 2018, 3:48 pm
The remarkable story of Syria’s White Helmet rescuers
The volunteers came from all walks of life to help people trapped in the rubble, but President Assad accuses the group of being ‘Al-Qaeda’ jihadists
By AFP and TOI staff
In this picture provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, Syrian Civil Defense workers search through the rubble in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, October 12, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense- White Helmets via AP)
July 22, 2018, 8:07 am
Israel evacuates 800 of Syria’s White Helmets and their families to Jordan
IDF says it launched ‘irregular humanitarian effort’ to save civil defense volunteers who faced ‘immediate risk’ to their lives; refugees to be resettled in UK, Canada, Germany
By TOI staff, Agencies and Judah Ari Gross
Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, pull a body from the rubble of a destroyed building on November 19, 2016 following a reported air strike on Aleppo's rebel-held neighborhood of Bab al-Nayrab. (Ameer Alhalbi/AFP)
July 20, 2018, 5:38 am
US to attempt rescue of trapped Syrian White Helmets at Golan border
Lauded civil defense workers to be evacuated to other countries out of fear regime and Russian forces will target them as they close in on Quneitra
By AP
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