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Qamishli, Syria, in the 1960s. By the 1980s, a Jewish community of approximately 3,000 had completely gone.
October 22, 2025, 12:20 pm
Dispatches from Syria: echoes of departed Jewish life in Rojava
David Patrikarakos reports from the Kurdish-controlled region on the story of the Jewish community that once was
By David Patrikarakos
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, Jobar, Damascus,
December 16, 2024, 1:14 pm
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian sefer Torah to be returned to synagogue
High-level delegation of Syrian Jewish leaders and chief rabbi to visit Damascus after fall of Assad
By Jenni Frazer
Now deposed Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets George Galloway in Damascus in 2005. Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". (AP Photo Sana)
December 12, 2024, 9:20 am
OPINION: Wicked and malicious Galloway may be, but I never had him down as nuts
...Until last weekend when he appeared to have gone full-tonto into looney 9/11 'troofer' land
By John Ware
Jeremy Corbyn
December 9, 2024, 6:48 pm
Corbyn fails to directly condemn tyrant Assad as he criticises Israel in the Commons
Former Labour leader has repeatedly faced allegations of being an Assad apologist over many years
By Lee Harpin
People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
December 9, 2024, 4:59 pm
OPINION: Assad’s fall is a blow to Russian and Iranian autocracy
End of decades of terror marks a turning point for Syria, as its allies reel from humiliating setbacks in their quest for dominance
By Jeremy Havardi
The view over Syria from the Golan Heights
April 28, 2017, 9:31 am
Israel intercepts Syrian ‘projectile’ hours after ‘attacking’ Damascus airport
The Jewish state's military reportedly deployed ins Patriot missile defence system to tackle a missile incoming above the Golan Heights
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.
April 20, 2017, 11:08 am
Syria’s Assad still has chemical weapons says Israel
Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons, Israeli military intelligence estimates.
About 60 US Tomahawk missiles hit the Shayrat air base south east of Homs.
April 7, 2017, 8:05 am
Netanyahu welcomes US decision to bomb Syrian air base
Israeli leader praises move to launch up to 60 cruise missiles at Assad regime's air base from where America says it initiated a deadly chemical attack.
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