Sources: BBC Oneindia
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock pledges €50 million in food, emergency shelters, and medical care to Syria following talks with the Syrian transitional government in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2025-01-12
Several mass graves are uncovered across Syria following the fall of the Assad regime, with a site in Al-Qutayfah, Rif Dimashq Governorate, estimated to contain the remains of at least 100,000 people. 2024-12-17
Heavy overnight Israeli airstrikes are reported in Tartus Governorate, Syria. 2024-12-16
Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly member and former Ambassador to Syria, Hossein Sheikholeslam, dies after becoming infected with COVID-19. Iran suspends its parliament indefinitely. 2020-03-5
A Department of Defense report presented to the United States Congress estimates at 499 the number of civilian deaths in US military actions during the year 2017, with more than 450 reports remaining to be assessed. The casualties occurred in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. 2018-06-1
Syria's political opposition in-exile urges all Arab countries to sever diplomatic ties with Iran. The Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition declared its support for Riyadh's move, calling on "all Arab and Islamic countries to take a similar step", and criticized what it said was Iran's support for Shia militias in Syria and Iraq. 2016-01-4
Syrian army and Hezbollah troops kill over 70 rebel fighters in an ambush in the outskirts of Damascus. 2014-02-26
The United Nations Security Council demands access to Syria for its humanitarian chief Valerie Amos. 2012-03-1
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls on the Syrian regime to "stop killing its own people". 2012-01-15
Demonstrators defy a government ban in the Syrian capital Damascus and protest for a second day, demanding the release of political prisoners. 2011-03-16