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The United Nations estimates that more than 300,000 people have been killed since the start of the civil war in 2011, which is 1.5% of Syria's pre-war population.
2022-06-28

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu rejects a proposal by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to establish a United Nations-mandated security zone in northeastern Syria, calling the plan "not very realistic".
2019-10-26

ISIL forces capture the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobane with the United Nations warning of massacre.
2014-10-10

The United Nations estimates that the death toll in Syria has doubled to at least 191,000 in the past year.
2014-08-22

The United Nations prepares to move about half of its international staff in Syria out of the country as violence creeps closer to UN facilities.
2013-03-26

The United Nations demands that Syria allow in humanitarian aid after a Red Cross relief mission was denied access to Homs yesterday.
2012-03-3

The Arab League threatens to take Syria to the United Nations within two weeks if the country does not accept its proposals to end the crackdown on the uprising.
2011-12-18

John Baird, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs announces that Canada will be imposing sanctions against Syria.
2011-05-24

Eyewitnesses claim that Syrian security forces killed four protesters in the coastal city of Banias.
2011-04-10

The U.S. Pentagon alleges that Iran has violated United Nations sanctions against itself by providing an advanced radar system to Syria, a system the Pentagon claims would hurt Israel's ability to launch surprise attacks against Iran.
2010-07-3