Memos sent to Syria's head of military intelligence, and obtained by the "New York Times", report that President Bashar al-Assad's government has been running a network of secret torture facilities across Syria, crushing opposition via routine torture in secret prisons. 2019-05-12
Russian warplanes bomb Islamic State positions in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and in the northern Aleppo province, releasing videos that show them destroying 20 vehicles and 3 weapons depots. 2015-10-6
The Syrian government prevents UN inspectors from visiting the site of the reported chemical massacre. 2013-08-23
Fighter jets from the Syrian Air Force fire rockets into northern Lebanon with no casualties reported. 2013-03-18
The government of Jordan says that more than 12,000 Syrians have fled to Jordan in the past six days. 2013-01-22
Syrian civil war: The United Nations says 4 million people could require humanitarian aid by 2013. 2012-11-9
Syrian opposition forces say that over 180 people were killed Thursday, including casualties from aerial bombings of residential neighborhoods in Aleppo and villages near Damascus. 2012-09-20