A video posted to X shows Syrians tearing down posters of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani at the Iranian embassy in Damascus. Statues of former president Hafez al-Assad are also toppled across the city. 2024-12-8
Airstrikes hit Darkush in Idlib Province near the Turkish border, killing at least 23 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least 25 died when rebels shelled government-held areas of Aleppo. Friday is the last day of a 72-hour Syrian Army-sponsored ceasefire. 2016-07-8
At least eight people are reportedly killed as a car bomb explodes at a checkpoint south of Damascus. 2016-04-25
A Syrian tribe in Deir Ezzor province faces genocide from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and appeals for the world to help. 2014-08-28
U.S Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syrian government forces killed 1,429 people in the chemical weapons attack last week. 2013-08-30
Syrian civil war: Rebels capture an air base east of Aleppo. 2012-10-12