The army bombards the last rebel enclave in the southern city of Daraa, killing six people. The army declined to comment but released a statement saying that it was losing patience with what it called "armed groups and terrorists". The site of the bombing is the birthplace of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad which marked the start of the war. 2021-08-29
Russian and Syrian Air Force warplanes carry out airstrikes on civilian settlements in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, killing at least 17 to 25 civilians including six children. 2020-02-10
Russian and Syrian warplanes carry out airstrikes in southern Idlib, killing three civilians and wounding others. 2017-09-21
A Syria Civil Defence volunteer search and rescue team says 33 people, mostly women and children, were affected by toxic gas dropped from a helicopter on Saraqeb in rebel-held Idlib Governorate. 2016-08-2
A Russian Air Force Mi-24 helicopter crashes near Palmyra, Syria, while assisting Syrian Army forces in the area. Russia's Ministry of Defence confirms two Russian pilots, Riafa'at Habibulin and Yevgeny Dolgin, are killed. 2016-07-9
The United States Department of Defense announces that it will send 400 troops to train moderate Syrian rebels in the spring of 2015. 2015-01-16
The Guardian newspaper raises the 1999 NATO Kosovo intervention as a precedent for humanitarian intervention into Syria, given the absence of a UN Mandate. 2013-08-26
Rebel forces capture a major government special forces base in Aleppo Province following a two-month siege. 2012-11-19
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi describes the conflict as an uprising against an "oppressive regime" and likens it to the Palestinians, sparking a walkout from the Syrian delegation at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran. 2012-08-30