Sources: BBC
Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati and Syrian de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hold a meeting in Damascus, Syria, the first time that the two countries have met since the Syrian civil war began in 2011. 2025-01-11
Heavy overnight Israeli airstrikes are reported in Tartus Governorate, Syria. 2024-12-16
Syrian state media reports that four people are killed when rebel forces shell the University of Aleppo. 2024-11-29
Syrian state media reports that an ambush on a bus near Palmyra killed at least 37 people. A senior military defector in the region says that the bus was transporting Syrian Army troops and pro-government militia from Deir ez-Zor to the Tiyas Military Airbase. 2020-12-30
Syrian government airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern de-escalation zones target the towns of Maarrat al-Nu'man and Maarat Herma in Idlib Governorate, killing twelve civilians. 2019-05-22
Syrian Government forces enter Raqqa province, the joint capital of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. It is one of three simultaneous attacks in Iraq and Syria. 2016-06-4
At least 13 Iranian soldiers are killed in a battle with Islamist militants in a village near Aleppo, Syria. This is the largest single day loss for the Iranians since the start of the conflict. 2016-05-7
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Syrian rebels have seized control of the al-Tanf border crossing on the Iraq–Syria border from ISIL militants. The rebel fighters who took the crossing reportedly entered Syria through Jordan. 2016-03-4
ISIL militants abduct at least 400 civilians from the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor. 2016-01-17
Russia arms Syria with Iskander missiles in response to NATO's stationing of Patriot missile defense systems in Turkey. 2012-12-8