Sources: Los Angeles Times
Iran and its proxies launch between 400 and 500 drones and cruise missiles at Israel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, southern Lebanon, and Yemen. 2024-04-13
A major blackout is reported in Syria after an explosion hits the Arab Gas Pipeline in the Rif Dimashq Governorate. Syrian Oil Minister Ali Ghanem says the explosion was a "terrorist attack", but does not elaborate on who was behind it. 2020-08-24
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet says the tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters and family members being held in Iraq and Syria must be tried or released, and calls on countries to take responsibility for their citizens and take them back if not charged. 2019-06-24
Police in northern Greece move more than 400 Syrians and Iraqis by bus from a makeshift camp near the Macedonian border to a shelter near the northern city of Thessaloniki. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following European border closures, and the European Union's agreement with Turkey. 2016-06-13
Belgium ruled itself out as a candidate to host the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile and said it would prefer the arsenal to be eradicated close to Syria itself. 2013-11-18
Rebel fighters launch a massive assault on a prison in Syria's northern city of Aleppo. 2013-05-15
Syrian civil war: the Local Coordination Committees say that by evening 83 civilians were killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army. 2012-10-11
United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan arrives in the Syrian capital Damascus for talks. 2012-07-8
The United Nations suspends its peacekeeping mission in Syria amid escalating violence. 2012-06-16
Hundreds of dissidents have been arrested across Syria, including in the town of Daraa and a Damascus suburb, after dozens were killed in weekend protests, activists say. 2011-05-2