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The Islamic State kills eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in Syria's Badiya desert.
2024-07-4

Several people are injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, Syria, the first since the attack on the Iranian consulate in April.
2024-05-2

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State, dies after killing himself with a suicide bombing during a U.S. Joint Special Operations Command raid and battle in Atme, Idlib Governorate, Syria. Twelve more people are killed during the raid.
2022-02-3

Syrian state media "SANA" reports that the Syrian Air Defense Force has intercepted several missiles fired at Shayrat Airbase in the Homs Governorate. The U.S. denies any involvement.
2018-04-16

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 crashes at the Khmeimim air base in Latakia province in northwestern Syria, killing the two crewmen.
2017-10-10

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that suspected Syrian government or Russian warplanes conduct a series of air raids on Oqayrabat and other nearby villages in the Hama Governorate at dawn, killing at least 34 civilians, including 11 children.
2016-12-12

A Russian Air Force Mi-24 helicopter crashes near Palmyra, Syria, while assisting Syrian Army forces in the area. Russia's Ministry of Defence confirms two Russian pilots, Riafa'at Habibulin and Yevgeny Dolgin, are killed.
2016-07-9

British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon says only five percent of Russia's airstrikes in Syria have targeted Islamic State extremists. Instead, other Syrian rebel groups, including the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, have been attacked. "Our evidence indicates they are dropping unguided munitions in civilian areas, killing civilians," Fallon added.
2015-10-3

United States Department of Defense says that Russia has deployed armoured vehicles and troops to Syria in what has been described as the "first clear sign of offensive weapons arriving in Syria" and "the largest deployment of Russian forces outside the former Soviet Union since the collapse of the USSR".
2015-09-14

One Syrian is killed and nine others injured in mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus.
2013-11-28