The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reports that nine field executions were conducted against members of the Syrian Druze community amid an outbreak of sectarian clashes. Syrian Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri characterizes the killings as part of a "genocidal campaign". 2025-05-1
Turkey says a car bomb near the Syrian city of Tell Abyad killed at least eight civilians and injured twenty others. 2019-11-10
A Russian Air Force Ilyushin Il-20 reconnaissance plane with 14 servicemen on board disappears from radar over the Mediterranean Sea during the missile attack on Syria's Latakia Governorate. A U.S. official claims the Syrian Army inadvertently shot it down while attempting to intercept missiles, while Russia detected a missile launch from a French FREMM multipurpose frigate. 2018-09-17
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the al-Nusra Front's spokesperson Abu Firas al-Suri was among 20 militants killed in a suspected Russian airstrike on a village near the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria. 2016-04-3
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that Turkey has shelled areas held by the Kurdish YPG militia group in Syria's Aleppo Governorate for the second successive day with two YPG fighters reportedly killed. 2016-02-14
At the International Institute for Strategic Studies Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces the United States will contribute $100 million (£64.7 million) in fresh aid to support the Syrian opposition. 2015-10-31
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees states that there are approximately 625,000 refugees from the Syrian civil war living in Lebanon. 2013-07-22
Rebels kill 18 soldiers in Idlib Governorate in a car bomb and ground attack on a military installation. 2012-09-12