Sources: The Jerusalem Post
Islamic terrorist Osama Krayem is found guilty at Stockholm District Court, Sweden, of involvement in a war crime in which Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh was burned alive inside a cage in Raqqa, Syria by the Islamic State on January 3, 2015. 2025-07-31
U.S. forces kill regional ISIS leader Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in an airstrike in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. 2024-12-20
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
At least 71 people are killed when a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon capsizes off Syria's coast. 2022-09-22
A Syrian passport is found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday's attacks in Paris. The holder passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 as a refugee, according to Greek officials. A Greek police source said the passport's owner was a young man who had arrived in Leros with a group of 69 refugees and had his fingerprints taken by authorities there. Police declined to give his name. 2015-11-14
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine free a Swedish observer, but not the other seven European monitors they have been holding for three days. 2014-04-27
The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning the Syrian government for human rights violations. 2013-05-15
Activists say four students are killed in an attack on anti-government demonstrations at Aleppo University, Syria. 2012-05-3
Syrian Army troops continue to pour into Homs as part of the latest offensive, with scores of civilians and anti-government protesters reported as having been killed in the past day. 2012-02-9
Reports emerge that nearly 14,000 North Korean anti-chemical-weapon suits, believed destined for Syria, were seized by Greek authorities in November 2009. 2011-11-17