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Syrian state media says that Israeli airstrikes have killed three soldiers close to Damascus.
2022-05-20

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announces that the United Kingdom's state broadcaster BBC will be reformed, with the television licence fee being abolished in 2027. Funding of the BBC will also be frozen for the next two years.
2022-01-16

Iranian state media report a deal to release $7 billion of frozen Iranian funds has been reached between Iran, the United States, and the United Kingdom for the release of prisoners with Western-links, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, in which the British government has agreed to pay a £400 million debt for her release.
2021-05-2

2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian state media report the deaths of at least 40 people in two car bombings in the capital Damascus.
2011-12-23

2011 Syrian uprising: Two rocket-propelled grenades hit the headquarters of Syria's ruling Ba'ath Party in Damascus amid ongoing anti-government protests.
2011-11-20

2011 Syrian uprising: Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets after Friday prayers in cities across Syria.
2011-07-22

2011 Syrian uprising: Fire damages a pipeline in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, according to regime officials and state media. [https:--www.bbc.co.uk-news-world-middle-east-14137680 (BBC)][http:--www.sana.sy-eng-21-2011-07-13-358092.htm (SANA)]date=August 2019
2011-07-13

Protesters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the 2011 Syrian uprising break into the United States embassy in Damascus and try to break into the French embassy.
2011-07-11

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and urges him to immediately end the violent crackdown against anti-government protesters in Syria, as Syrian tanks and armored vehicles deployed around the town of Rastan, witnesses said, raising fears of another deadly attack on protesters challenging Assad's rule.
2011-05-4

At least 62 people are killed as scores of people die in the "Day of Rage".
2011-04-29