Sources: Reuters
At least 23 soldiers are killed and ten more injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen against a military vehicle in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. 2023-08-10
The death toll of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria surpasses 50,000. 2023-02-24
Turkey's MoD says two Turkish troops were killed in an airstrike in Syria's Idlib Governorate. 2020-02-26
Turkish shelling kills 55 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria insurgents in northern Syria in retaliation for rocket attacks on Kilis, a Turkish border town. 2016-05-8
The United States military says ISIL's so-called minister-of-war, Abu Omar al-Shishani, né Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, appears to have been killed in a U.S. air strike near the town of Al-Shaddadi in Syria. 2016-03-8
The United States White House announces the U.S. will give $419 million more in humanitarian aid to assist Syrian refugees and the countries that are hosting them. 2015-09-21
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 Arab Inter-parliamentary Union, an advisory body to the Arab League, calls for the removal of its monitors in Syria, saying that they are inadvertently helping the government cover up ongoing violence. 2012-01-1
The Syrian opposition reports that the Army has entered the town of Maarat an-Numan. 2011-08-8
Human rights groups say at least 52 prisoners have disappeared from Saidnaya Military Prison in Syria, following disturbances in 2008 that led to the deaths of 22 people. 2010-07-5