Sources: Al Jazeera
A court in Stuttgart, Germany, sentences a Syrian man to life in prison under universal jurisdiction for leading a Hezbollah-backed group and committing alleged war crimes against Sunni Muslims in Busra al-Sham, Syria, during the Syrian civil war. 2025-06-3
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
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaves the country on a flight from Damascus International Airport to Moscow, Russia. 2024-12-8
Syrian Democratic Forces declares progress in Syria after an ISIL camp on the outskirts of Baghuz is captured. 2019-03-19
Dozens of people in the Syrian city of Douma are reported killed in an apparent chemical weapons attack. 2018-04-7
Israeli Minister of Construction Yoav Galant states that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be assassinated. Yesterday, the United States Department of State accused the al-Assad government of using a crematory at Sednaya Prison to cover up the mass murders of thousands of political prisoners. The Syrian government denies the accusations. 2017-05-16
Syria reports its air defense shot down an Israeli warplane that attacked a Syrian army position in al-Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israel Defense Forces say that missiles were fired at their aircraft but none hit. 2016-09-13
The Pentagon rejects a Russian proposal to stage joint airstrikes against Al-Qaeda linked groups in Syria. 2016-05-21
The Syrian Army, backed by Hezbollah militiamen and Russian airstrikes, retakes full control of the strategic town of Al-Shaykh Maskin in Syria's southern Daraa Governorate, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 2016-01-26
Syrian civil war: At least 19 people are killed across Syria in ongoing violence on Eid-ul-Fitr holiday. President Assad makes a public appearance, praying in Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi accepts to become the new UN envoy. 2012-08-19