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The Foreign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations with Ukraine.
2022-07-20

Israeli Air Force helicopters strike Syrian military observation posts, intelligence collection systems, anti-aircraft batteries and command-and-control bases in Quneitra Governorate, in response to yesterday's incident along the Purple Line border fence in the Golan Heights, in which four militants were killed after attempting to plant an IED where Israeli soldiers patrol.
2020-08-3

Syria and Libya's Tobruk-based government led by Aguila Saleh Issa agree to establish diplomatic relations following a high level visit to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. Both governments agree to counter "Turkish aggression" in the region.
2020-03-1

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem demands the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and Turkish troops from his country and warns that Syrian government forces have the right to take countermeasures if they refuse.
2019-09-28

Local elections are held in government-held areas of Syria for the first time since 2011.
2018-09-16

Turkish Armed Forces claim that an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant rocket attack on Turkish-backed Syrian rebel forces caused symptoms of chemical weapons in 22 soldiers.
2016-11-27

The United States military states that it has inadvertently killed 64 civilians in air strikes on targets in Syria and Iraq over the past year.
2016-11-9

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State-held city of Manbij in northern Syria kill at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, and injure dozens more.
2016-07-19

The United Nations confirms the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has completely destroyed the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria, after earlier reports that the structure was mostly intact.
2015-09-1

Syrian civil war: the Local Coordination Committees say that by evening 83 civilians were killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army.
2012-10-11