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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

Danish inventor Peter Madsen appeals his life sentence for murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall onboard his homemade submarine. He has not appealed his conviction.
2018-05-7

Syrian government fighters remove the last rebels from Douma, completing the Syrian government's recapture of former rebel stronghold Eastern Ghouta.
2018-04-12

A court in Kuwait sentences a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death "in absentia" for the murder of their Filipino maid. The case sparked an Interpol manhunt and diplomatic tensions.
2018-04-3

The United States Secretary of State John Kerry says ISIL has committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis and Shias in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq.
2016-03-17

Russian airstrikes on an Al-Nusra Front (Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria)-run prison complex in the northern town of Maarrat al-Nu'man, Idlib, leaves nearly 60 people dead. Most of those killed were rebels imprisoned by Al-Nusra, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2016-01-9

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the type of Russian aircraft in Syria is consistent with that needed to protect their own forces. However, it is still not clear what Russia's long-term intentions are.
2015-09-22

Syrian government planes bomb the city of Jisr al-Shughur the day after it was captured by al-Qaeda and its allies. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150426-syria-warplanes-strike-northwest-city-seized-rebels-?aef_campaign_date=2015-04-26&aef_campaign_ref=partage_aef&dlvrit=66745&ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_linkname=editorial&ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter (France 24)]date=August 2019
2015-04-26

Lebanese gunmen kidnap eight Syrians from the Alawites minority and demand a hostage exchange.
2013-04-1

18-year-old Anton Abele becomes Sweden's youngest ever MP; he is a member of the ruling Moderate Party.
2010-10-14