Sources: The Jerusalem Post
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that groups attributed to the Syrian Ministry of Defense have killed over 750 Alawite civilians across several massacres in western Syria. 2025-03-8
Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrest eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria. 2024-07-3
High-ranking Iranian general Sayyed Razi Mousavi is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. 2023-12-25
An explosion at the headquarters of the Chechen-led Ajnad al-Kavkaz rebel group in Idlib, Syria, kills at least 23 people, while several people remain unaccounted for, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2018-01-7
At least three soldiers of the Turkish Armed Forces are accidentally killed by a Russian airstrike near al-Bab in northern Syria. 2017-02-9
A Syrian refugee is suing Facebook after the company failed to remove posts with his image that accuse him of being a terrorist. 2017-01-14
Despite an anti-flammable liquid coating, the yearly giant Yule goat in Gävle, Sweden, is again destroyed in an arson attack. 2013-12-21
Reporters Without Borders releases their annual report regarding press freedom around the world with 71 journalists killed in 2013 so far. The deadliest countries are Syria, India, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Somalia while the worst jailers are China, Turkey, Eritrea, Iran, and Syria. 2013-12-19
10 people are reported shot dead around the Israel-Lebanon border (near Maroun al-Ras in Lebanon), as a crowd try to enter Israel through a border fence. Protesters also pelt Lebanese security forces and Israeli soldiers with stones. Over a hundred enter the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, with 4 shot dead, after Palestinians and Syrians crossed the de facto Israel-Syria border. Over 45 are injured in total.2011-05-15
Results in the Swedish general election show the centre-right Alliance government led by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt winning a plurality, with the Sweden Democrats holding the balance of power. 2010-09-20