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The Syrian government re-opens the Homs–Hama highway after it was closed for seven years.
2018-06-6

The United States launches 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles aimed at the Ash Sha'irat air base in Homs Governorate in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons in its attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun. The Government of Syria claims the attack killed six soldiers and nine civilians, including four children.
2017-04-7

Syrian Army troops surround the central prison in Hama after inmates revolted, seizing several guards. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says inmates were protesting against a planned transfer of prisoners from Hama to Sednaya Prison near Damascus.
2016-05-2

ISIL claims to have shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force MiG-23, southeast of Damascus, and captured its pilot. Amaq News Agency, which supports ISIL, gave the pilot’s name as Azzam Eid, from Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it was not clear whether the plane had been shot down or crashed because of mechanical failure.
2016-04-23

Syria hands over its remaining 100 tonnes of its declared chemical weapons to the United Nations Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons but the organisation cannot declare that the country no longer has any such weapons.
2014-06-23

A suicide truck bomber attack by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front on a government checkpoint outside Hama, Syria, kills at least 30 people, including a number of soldiers.
2013-10-20

"The Times" reports that evidence smuggled out of Syria indicates the use of chemical weapons in the ongoing conflict.
2013-04-13

Opposition activists accuse the Syrian army of firing artillery into a neighborhood in Hama, killing at least 30.
2012-05-27

At least 121 people are killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country.
2011-07-31

2011 Syrian uprising: Government troops arrive in Hama in buses to raid houses and arrest civilians following the mass popular anti-government protests there on Friday. Tanks laying siege to the city move north to other villages.
2011-07-4