Sources: BBC
Spiritual leader of Syria's Druze community Hikmat al-Hajari rejects any deal with the new Ahmed al-Sharaa-headed transitional government, accusing it of being "extremist in every sense of the word" and refusing to "recognize a terrorist" in reference to the concurrent sectarian massacres of Syrian Alawites. 2025-03-13
High-ranking Iranian general Sayyed Razi Mousavi is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. 2023-12-25
The government of Kyrgyzstan says 95 wives and children of Islamic State fighters have been repatriated from internment camps in Syria. 2023-08-29
Representatives of Russia and Israel meet in Moscow to discuss the Middle East, particularly recent developments in Syria and Gaza. 2018-04-10
The White House confirms Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's announcement that President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that America is preparing to stop supplying weapons to ethnic Kurdish fighters in Syria. 2017-11-24
A suicide bomber kills four people and injures 26 in the Lebanese town of Hermel, a Hezbollah stronghold near the Syrian border. 2014-01-16
Pope Benedict XVI calls for a political solution to the conflict in Syria during his Christmas message, delivered to thousands of pilgrims in Vatican City. 2012-12-25
The BBC is further caught in controversy after tweeting a photograph of a young girl on a stretcher as being killed in Gaza when the photograph is 3 weeks old and of a child killed in Syria. 2012-11-20
At least 4,300 Syrians flee into Turkey amid a government crackdown on protests. 2011-06-11
A Syrian ship transporting food and medical aid to the Gaza Strip docks in El-Arish. 2010-09-20