Sources: Reuters
Missiles are launched by the Israel Defense Forces towards Isfahan, Iran. Locations in Iraq and Syria are also attacked by Israel. 2024-04-19
Four Hezbollah members and two other militants are killed by three airstrikes at Syria's border with Iraq. 2023-12-30
Spanish National Police Corps officers arrest former rapper and ISIL militant Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary and two other men, after raiding their apartment overnight in Almería. Abdel Bary is suspected of being a member of the The Beatles cell, who were responsible for beheading Western hostages in Syria. 2020-04-21
James Le Mesurier, the British co-founder of the White Helmets, a volunteer civil defence organisation in Syria, is found dead near his home in Istanbul, Turkey. The cause of death is not known. 2019-11-11
Mortar shells fired from Syria kill at least one person and injure another in the Turkish border town of Kilis. 2016-03-8
A top Al-Qaeda commander is killed in an airstrike in Syria. 2015-10-17
Iran, North Korea and Syria block adoption of a United Nations treaty that would regulate the international arms trade, a proposal which required agreement by all 193 UN member states. 2013-03-29
Several Arab and Western countries expel Syrian diplomats in response to the Houla massacre. 2012-05-29
The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, proposes that Arab League troops be sent to Syria to end ongoing violence in the country. 2012-01-14
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