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The Turkish Air Force launches a series of airstrikes against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian Army positions in Northern Syria, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan following the Istanbul bombing, which Ankara blames on Kurdish separatists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 35 people were killed, including 18 SDF fighters and 16 Syrian troops.
2022-11-20

About 3,000 Egyptian protesters storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
2011-09-9

Al Jazeera reports that there have been many arrests in the southern town of Deraa with people fleeing to either Damascus or Jordan.
2011-06-30

Syria sends more troops into suburbs of Damascus and sends tanks into Deraa.
2011-04-26

The Syrian human rights organisation Sawasiah claims that the Government of Syria has arrested 500 protesters since the crackdown began.
2011-04-26

Five suspected al Qaeda terrorists are killed at a checkpoint in Yemen.
2011-03-26

Protests continue in cities across Syria demanding greater freedoms; gunfire is also heard in Deraa.
2011-03-25

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

G8 leaders fail to agree on military intervention in Libya following the 2011 Libyan civil war, and pass the issue onto the United Nations Security Council.
2011-03-15