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The Sunni Muslim Grand Mufti of Damascus Sheikh Mohammed Adnan Afiouni is assassinated in a car bombing in the Syrian capital, according to state media.
2020-10-22

The UNHCHR Michelle Bachelet says she is "horrified" by the deliberate targeting of civilians in the recent offensive in northwestern Syria and accuses the parties involved.
2020-02-18

According to Syrian state media, two suicide bombers attack in Damascus, killing at least 31 people.
2017-03-15

Syria condemns Turkish military action against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, and demands, in letters to the United Nations Secretary-General and the Security Council President, UN action on these violations of Syrian sovereignty.
2016-02-14

Sixteen people are killed and many more injured by a car bomb and a second, delayed explosion near a hospital in Syria's mainly Alawite, government-controlled neighborhood of al-Zahra, east of Homs' old city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. The attack comes just five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb.
2015-12-12

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to send Special Operations forces to regions in northern Syria under Kurdish control to help local forces fight the Islamic State.
2015-10-30

Lebanon implements stricter immigration rules on its Syrian border in response to the refugee crisis caused by the Syrian Civil War.
2015-01-5

One Syrian is killed and nine others injured in mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus.
2013-11-28

Gunmen kidnap seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross from northern Syria.
2013-10-13

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves a resolution authorizing a limited US military intervention in Syria, setting the stage for a debate in the full Senate next week on the use of military force.
2013-09-4