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Kuwaiti authorities announce they arrested six members of an extremist network suspected of supplying funds and weapons, including rockets, to Daesh (Islamic State) militants. Four others are still being sought outside of the country. The group includes a Lebanese, an Egyptian, five Syrians, two Australians, and a Kuwaiti national.
2015-11-19

Syrian rebels take over the border Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria after heavy fighting. Mortar rounds and rockets were launched into Israel. One IDF soldier is wounded by a bullet just days after rocket attacks from Lebanon.
2014-08-27

Syrian government troops recapture the towns of Al-Sarkha and Ma'loula near the Syria-Lebanon border.
2014-04-14

Friends of Syria calls on Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah to withdraw from Syrian territory.
2013-05-23

A military court in Lebanon releases anti-Syrian government activist Shadi al-Moulawi after his arrest sparked violent clashes that killed eight people.
2012-05-22

Several people are killed in clashes in the Lebanese city of Tripoli between supporters and opponents of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in a violent spillover from the Syrian civil war.
2012-05-13

The Washington-based organisation Human Rights Watch accuses Syria of hiding hundreds of political detainees during a visit by Arab League monitors.
2011-12-28

Security forces in Syria arrest dozens of people following pro-reform protests.
2011-04-2

Syrian security forces fire tear gas at a funeral for two men killed in an earlier protest in the southern city of Daraa.
2011-03-19

2011 Syrian protests: Social media mobilises the people of Syria for rallies demanding freedom, human rights and the end to emergency law, scheduled for Friday and Saturday in front of the parliament in Damascus and at Syrian embassies internationally.
2011-02-3