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An Israeli airstrike kills a Syrian army officer in southern Syria.
2024-06-19

Israeli warplanes strike Syria's Aleppo International Airport with air-to-surface missiles, damaging the runway and putting the airport out of service. The Syrian transport ministry says that the delivery of humanitarian aid to Idlib will be rerouted to Bassel Al-Assad International Airport in Latakia Governorate following the strike.
2023-03-7

Following the U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria, the United States is to deploy more troops to Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate to secure the country's petroleum gas and oilfields, according to a senior Department of Defense official.
2019-10-25

Pope Francis petitions President Bashar al-Assad Assad to protect weak and defenseless in Syria. The pope’s appeal is in a letter to Assad delivered by Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at a meeting with the president in Damascus.
2019-07-22

Syrian rebels fire volleys of mortar shells into Damascus, killing three people and wounding at least 30. Government forces respond with airstrikes into rebel-controlled Douma, just northeast of the capital, and surface-to-surface missiles into Eastern Ghouta and Saqba, that kill at least 35 people and injure many more, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
2015-12-13

United States President Barack Obama, in Antalya, Turkey, says America will continue to accept refugees from Syria and elsewhere, though, "Only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks." Responding to calls to admit Christians but not Muslims into the country, he said, "We don’t have religious tests to our compassion."
2015-11-16

Protests are held in Albania against the proposal to bring Syria's chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed in the country.
2013-11-14

Several people are killed and dozens of others are injured in Homs as Syrian security forces attack the funeral of protesters killed in yesterday's protest events during the country's uprising against the regime.
2011-05-21

UK, French and Italian officials call for sanctions against Syria.
2011-04-26

Demonstrators defy a government ban in the Syrian capital Damascus and protest for a second day, demanding the release of political prisoners.
2011-03-16