Sources: Sky News
Jordan closes its border with Syria after rebel forces seize the main Nasib Border Crossing. 2024-12-6
The Syrian Army lifts the 28-month-long siege of Deir ez-Zor by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-mideast-crisis-syria-syrian-army-allies-break-islamic-state-siege-in-eastern-city-idUSKCN1BG1G6 (Reuters)] [http:--bbcspain.localizer.co-news-world-middle-east-41162683 (BBC News)]date=April 2020 2017-09-5
A rocket hits and injures several people at the Damascus International Fair. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says five people have died. 2017-08-20
In the first declared visit to the town since the beginning of the war, President Bashar al-Assad attends the Eid al-Fitr prayer in Hama. 2017-06-25
At least 16 people are killed by multiple airstrikes on a prison in Idlib, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2017-03-25
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces take control of Tell Rifaat in the Aleppo Governorate after pushing back mostly Islamist rebel fighters, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2016-02-15
Three million people are now refugees from the conflict, as estimated by the United Nations. 2013-11-28
The United Nations team of chemical weapons inspectors has headed out on the last day of its probe into a deadly poison gas attack in Syria. 2013-08-30
A suicide car bomber detonates a bomb in the Hama province of Syria killing 50 Syrian military personnel. This attack is the largest attack on Bashar al-Assad's forces in the civil war so far. 2012-11-5
Special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the Syrian crisis is a "very, very serious and dangerous" threat of breaching world peace. 2012-09-15