Rebels capture the town of Qamhana and Jabal Zayn al-Abidin mountain in Hama Governorate. 2024-12-5
A car bomb in the Syrian town of al-Rai, close to the Turkish border, kills at least ten people after it explodes near a hospital. 2019-09-15
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the city of Deir ez-Zor has largely been cleared of ISIS fighters by the Syrian Armed Forces. Deir ez-Zor was the scene of a three-year-long siege until it was broken in September 2017. 2017-11-2
Syrian state television reports the Syrian Army reaches a point 3 kilometers from Deir ez-Zor, a city besieged by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant since 2014. 2017-09-4
Syrian government forces advance around and encircle Aleppo in order to try and impose a siege. 2016-09-4
A missile-strike in Jaramana in southern Syria kills high-ranking Lebanese Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar and eight National Defence Force (NDF) personnel. The responsibility for the incident taken by the Free Syrian Army, though Hezbollah alleges Israeli involvement. Kuntar was the longest serving Lebanese prisoner in Israel until his release in 2008. On April 22, 1979 Kuntar and his team broke into an apartment building and kidnapped a father, 31-year-old Danny Haran, and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, taking them to a nearby beach and killing them. 2015-12-20
A top Al-Qaeda commander is killed in an airstrike in Syria. 2015-10-17
Peter Theo Curtis, an American citizen, is released by an al-Qaida-linked group after two years in captivity. 2014-08-24
A Lebanese man protesting against Hezbollah's role in the Syrian civil war is shot dead outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut. 2013-06-9