At least 30 pro-government militia forces and soldiers are killed in a series of attacks by the Islamic State (IS) near the cities of Deir ez-Zor, Homs, and Raqqa, with Russian airstrikes targeting the IS positions in response. 2023-11-8
At least 23 civilians die in an airstrike near Shadadi, Al-Hasakah Governorate. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has stated it is not clear who carried out the attack, listing Iraq and US-led coalition as two possibilities. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency claims the US-led coalition is responsible. 2018-05-1
The Syrian Army and its allies recapture the ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 2017-03-2
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant says its official spokesman, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, has been killed in Syria's Aleppo Governorate. The group's statement, distributed by Amaq News Agency, did not say how al-Adnani was killed. 2016-08-30
United Nations condemns the killing of Anadolu Agency Turkish photojournalist Saleh Mahmoud Laila in Thursday's ISIS suicide attack at a marketplace in Huraytan, north of Aleppo. 2015-10-9
Syrian civil war: Rebels capture an air base east of Aleppo. 2012-10-12