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22 January

The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) completed the second successful flyout test of the Arrow-3 interceptor in 2014

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Israel and US test Arrow 3 ballistic missile interceptors

The Israeli and US defense ministries they had successfully tested Arrow 3 ballistic missile interceptors deployed at Israeli airbases

21 January

Aftermath of a vehicle bomb at an SDF checkpoint in Shaddadi in Syria's Hasakah governorate

Joanne Stocker

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ISIS targets Coalition-SDF convoy in Hasakah suicide attack

US-led Coalition and SDF personnel were reported to be killed and injured in a suicide attack on a convoy in northeastern Syria's Hasakah governorate

21 January

Syrian air defense systems during an Israeli airstrike

Joanne Stocker

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Israel fighter jets strike Iranian targets in Syria

Israel carried out airstrikes on Iranian targets inside Syria, the Israeli Defense Forces and Syrian state news agency said

19 January

Anna Varfolomeeva

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Last battlefield: The future of Syria’s Idlib after HTS militant takeover

After Syria's Idlib province was taken over by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance of jihadist groups, residents fear the possibility of a regime offensive

17 January

Macron, Emmanuel Macron, French, France, French president

Fergus Kelly

France to continue military operation in Syria and Iraq in 2019, Macron says

France will remain "militarily engaged" in the Middle East through 2019 despite the U.S. 'retreat' from Syria, President Emmanuel Macron said

17 January

Staff Writer With AFP

Yemen government and Houthis rebels meet on prisoner swap details

Yemeni government and rebel representatives met in Jordan for a second day to thrash out the details of a major prisoner exchange

16 January

SDF Forces Conduct Live-Fire Training with Coalition

Jared Szuba

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SDF ready to support northern Syria security zone with international guarantees

The SDF announced its readiness to support a safe-zone to protect northeastern Syria “from the danger of genocide” and “foreign intervention"

16 January

A suicide bomb attack was reported in the Syrian city of Manbij

Joanne Stocker

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Syria: US military personnel among dead in Manbij suicide bomb attack

A suicide attack was reported at a busy marketplace in the northern Syrian city of Manbij with an unknown number of casualties

15 January

Geir Pedersen was named UN special envoy for Syria in October 2018

Staff Writer With AFP

New UN envoy for Syria makes first Damascus trip

The new UN envoy to Syria began his first trip to Damascus, facing the daunting task of rekindling peace talks and succeeding where his predecessors failed

14 January