Sources: CBS
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces seize control of Hajin, the last major town held by ISIL in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2018-12-14
A report by charity Save the Children estimates that 85,000 children died of starvation as a result of the war. 2018-11-21
A court in Kuwait sentences a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death "in absentia" for the murder of their Filipino maid. The case sparked an Interpol manhunt and diplomatic tensions. 2018-04-3
Travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen are blocked from entering the United States as the executive order takes effect. 2017-01-28
Police in northern Greece move more than 400 Syrians and Iraqis by bus from a makeshift camp near the Macedonian border to a shelter near the northern city of Thessaloniki. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following European border closures, and the European Union's agreement with Turkey. 2016-06-13
A suicide bomb attack in Syria's capital Damascus kills at least 10 people. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. 2016-02-9
The World Health Organization reports that a polio outbreak has begun in the war-torn city of Deir Ezzor, Syria. 2013-10-24
The United Nations Security Council adopts a statement supporting Kofi Annan's plan for ending violence in Syria. 2012-03-21
Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, condemned the "appalling brutality" of the operation with estimates as high 110 people dead today. 2012-02-9
2011 Syrian uprising: The United Nations says Syrian forces may have committed crimes against humanity amid the ongoing protests. 2011-07-23