A video from besieged eastern Aleppo's al-Shaar neighborhood emerges showing the moment a young girl, identified as Ghazal Qasim, trapped beneath rubble of a five floor building blown to smithereens by a deadly Assad government's bunker buster bomb attack on September 27, is rescued by the Syrian Civil Defense, better known as the white helmets. 2016-09-29
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
A suspected Russian airstrike is said to have killed dozens of members of one family in Homs, Syria. 2015-10-18
Syrian Civil War: An Islamist group fighting Syrian government troops says it has captured five soldiers from Yemen, whom it alleges were sent to quell the uprising. 2012-09-30
Russia calls for a joint United Nations-Arab League inquiry on terrorist mass slaughters of civilians. 2012-08-29
Syrian forces shell two separate districts in the capital Damascus; rebels say at least 47 people are killed. Frequent fighting is reported in Aleppo and other parts of the country. The United Nations estimate that 18,000 people have been killed in the conflict. 2012-08-22
Renewed violence is reported in the Syrian cities of Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Idlib, as Syrian state television reports the death of one of its reporters. 2012-08-12