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A car bomb detonates in a Turkey-backed rebel city, Afrin, near the entrance, killing 11 and injuring over 30 badly.
2019-07-11

A massive explosion targetting a Tahrir al-Sham base in Idlib kills 15 people and injures 20 others. A car bomb is reported to have been used in the attack.
2019-01-18

An explosion at the headquarters of the Chechen-led Ajnad al-Kavkaz rebel group in Idlib, Syria, kills at least 23 people, while several people remain unaccounted for, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2018-01-7

Rockets fired by ISIL from northern Syria hit a poor neighborhood and a mosque in the Turkish city of Kilis, killing one person and injuring 26 others. Turkish security forces responded by returning fire into Syria.
2016-04-24

Kurdish parties in northern Syria declare the establishment of a federal system in areas they control. Turkey and the United States had warned this risks further destabilizing the already war-ravaged country. The move was criticized by the government of Syria.
2016-03-17

Kurdish officials say they plan to declare a federal region in northern Syria after being excluded from peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the 5-year-old conflict. The move will combine three Kurdish-led autonomous areas into a federal system in what is set to alarm neighboring Turkey.
2016-03-16

A spokesman for the White House confirms that a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded is authentic.
2014-09-3

At least 16 people are killed and 25 others injured after a car bomb strikes the city of Qatana, 25 km southwest of the capital Damascus. The attack follows a similar blast in front of the Interior Ministry building a day earlier that killed at least five.
2012-12-13

Activists say dozens of civilians are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian government's artillery shelling of cities.
2012-09-22

Turkey scrambles a total of six F-16 fighters jets near its border with Syria in response to three cases of Syrian military helicopters approaching the Turkish border, although there is no border violation.
2012-07-1