Sources: AP via ''The Hindu
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announces that it has documented the names of 1,628 mainly-Alawite Syrian civilians who were killed in sectarian massacres by pro-Syrian government forces, in addition to several more missing civilians and bodies. 2025-03-25
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that groups attributed to the Syrian Ministry of Defense have killed over 750 Alawite civilians across several massacres in western Syria. 2025-03-8
The former Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, calls the conflict in his country a "nightmare", stating that it could become worse than those in Syria and Libya. 2023-04-29
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hold talks amid the escalation in Idlib with Syria and Russia. 2020-02-27
A car bomb kills four people and injures 15 others in the Turkish-occupied city Afrin, in Aleppo Governorate. 2020-02-10
Syrian state media, Syrian Arab News Agency, reports missile strikes have targeted military sites in the Hama Governorate and Aleppo Governorate. It is unclear who carried out the strikes. 2018-04-29
Damascus's governor says the last group of rebels and civilians have left the city's besieged Barzeh district. 2017-05-29
Amnesty International reports at least 200 civilians have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria, indicating "serious failures by Russia to respect international humanitarian law". Moscow denies causing civilian deaths. 2015-12-23
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon questions the legality of US plans to strike Syria without UN backing, saying that the use of force is only legal when it is in self-defence or with Security Council authorization. 2013-09-3
An UN official estimates that 1 million people are uprooted by the conflict. 2.5 million people need urgent humanitarian aid, up from 1 million in March.2012-08-16