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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documents three further reprisal massacres of Alawite minority communities on 12 March in which 158 civilians were killed, totaling 1,383 civilian deaths as a result of fifty separate massacres conducted in western Syria since March 6.
2025-03-12

Russian and Syrian warplanes bombard rebel-held areas in Homs Governorate, killing at least 20 people.
2024-12-6

Bashar al-Jaafari, Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations, called on Biden to change US foreign policy in Syria, which is nearing 10 years of civil war. During a session of the UN Security Council, Jaafari accused the United States of using the multi-sided war to steal the country's oil reserves and other natural resources.
2021-01-21

U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are considering replacing the U.S. military forces in Syria with a regional Arab force.
2018-04-17

The United States announces that it will deploy an additional 200 troops to help force the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from Al-Raqqah.
2016-12-10

The Syrian army, backed by Iranian fighters, captures several villages south of Aleppo.
2015-10-17

The European Union is criticized by Amnesty International for meager assistance of Syrian refugees.
2013-12-13

Syrian Air Force helicopters bombard the northern rebel-held town of Al-Bab for a second day, killing 20 people.
2013-12-1

A car bomb and two other explosions go off outside the Interior Ministry and Palace of Justice in Damascus.
2012-12-12