Middle Eastern and North African countries (Algeria - Yemen)
In January 2011 called: 'Eine sich verändernde Welt - Demokratie in Tunesien', eine Chance auch für ein sich veränderndes Europa
(Artikel vom 21. Januar 2011)
Als eine Folge der Weltwirtschaftskrise ab 2007 erleben wir im Winter 2010/2011 in der - seit 1956 von imperialer Protektoratsmacht, nämlich Frankreich (vgl. aktuelle Äußerungen der französischen Außenministerin M. Alliot-Marie) unabhängigen - Präsidialrepublik Tunesien eine Revolution gegen das Regime des Jahrzehnte regierenden Präsidenten Ben Ali und seine Quasi-Staatspartei "Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique" RCD. Stark gestiegene Lebenshaltungskosten, mangelnde Zukunftsperspektiven insbesondere der Jugend (auch deren gut ausgebildeter Teile) bei hoher Arbeitslosigkeit, das korrupte, autokratische Regime und dessen Unfähigkeit, auf Krisenerscheinungen und Proteste anders als mit Repressalien und Gewalt gegen Demonstranten (nach UN-Angaben mehr als 100 Tote auf der Seite der Opposition) zu reagieren, sind die Ursachen der Revolution (vgl. den Wikipedia-Artikel Revolution in Tunesien 2010-2011 mit einer Chronologie der Ereignisse) und der Flucht Ben Alis nach Saudi-Arabien am 14. Januar 2011. Die Forderungen der Oppositionsbewegung: Entmachtung der Partei RCD, Demokratisierung von Staat und Gesellschaft (daher eine neue Verfassung), Freiheit der Meinungsäußerung, Versammlungs- und Organisationsfreiheit, Neuwahlen.
Aufgrund des nicht nachlassenden Drucks beginnt die amtierende Übergangsregierung ab Mitte Januar unter Präsident Mebazaa (und Ministerpräsident Ghannouchi) sich von der Partei RCD zu lösen, verspricht einen "vollständigen Bruch mit der Vergangenheit" und kommt mit einer Staatstrauer für die Opfer des Aufstands, einer Amnestie für politische Gefangene, mit Strafverfolgung für den geflohenen Machthaber, Schutz des tunesischen Eigentums (Auslandskonten Ben Alis etc.), der Ankündigung von Kommissionen für demokratische Reformen, Korruptionsaufklärung etc. den Forderungen der Revolutionsbewegung noch weiter entgegen.
Die Partei RCD, der zunächst noch ein Großteil der Minister der Übergangsregierung angehört hatten, wird am 17. Januar 2011 nach sage und schreibe 22 Jahren Vollmitgliedschaft aus der "Sozialistischen Internationale" (des 1914 zerbrochenen und 1951 wiederbelebten Zusammenschlusses sozialdemokratischer und sozialistischer Parteien und Organisationen mit 168 Organisationen weltweit) ausgeschlossen.
In den Tagen darauf folgen Rücktritte aus der Übergangsregierung aus Protest gegen die alte Regierungspartei RCD, vor allem seitens der Gewerkschafter (Mitglieder der UGTT und der Partei FDLT). Oppositionspolitiker wie Moncef Marzouki kehren ebenfalls in diesen Tagen aus dem Exil zurück.
Bemerkenswert ist, daß die Europäische Union Tunesien Hilfe für die sofortige Organisation von Wahlen angeboten hat. Es wird sich darum handeln, nicht nur mit Worten sondern mit Tatkraft die tunesische Revolution in ihrer demokratischen und sozialen Zielsetzung, für die sie im übrigen keinen Souffleur braucht, zu unterstützen. Daß die tunesische Revolution bereits nach Ägypten, Algerien (vgl. Wikipedia: Unruhen in Algerien 2011), Jemen, Jordanien, Kuwait, Mauretanien, Saudi-Arabien, Syrien - d.h. in die gesamte arabische und islamische Welt - ausstrahlt, unterstreicht die Bedeutung einer solchen praktischen Hilfe.
Mit den Ereignissen in den islamisch geprägten Ländern der letzten Wochen läuft eine Entwicklung parallel, die Europa (seine wirtschaftlich stärkeren Länder wie die Bundesrepublik, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien) und die sog. "Sozialistische Internationale" ebenfalls und mehr oder weniger direkt betrifft: Zur gleichen Zeit, seit dem 17. Januar 2011, steht die sozialdemokratische "Awoda" (Israelische Arbeitspartei) unmittelbar vor der Spaltung. Der Parteichef der Awoda Ehud Barak - und Verteidigungsminister der Regierung Netanjahu/Liebermann (vgl. den Artikel "Der Gazakrieg 2008/2009 ist eine Krise Europas und Deutschlands" - hat seinen Parteiaustritt und die Gründung einer neuen Partei "Azmaut" (Unabhängigkeit) bekanntgegeben. Unabhängig werden will Barak vor allem von der Partei "Awoda" (der er sein Mandat und seinen Ministerposten verdankt), in der die Kritik über den brachliegenden Friedensprozeß mit den Palästinensern immer lauter wird.
Die Europawahlen 2009 (Wahl vom 4. bis 7. Juni 2009 in den 27 EU-Staaten zum europäischen
Parlament) und folgende nationale Wahlen mit der Niederlage erstarrter, deformierter sozialdemokratischer Parteien wie der britischen Labour Party (und mit Erfolgen rechtspopulistischer Bewegungen) in Großbritannien, in den Niederlanden, in Schweden, in Ungarn (Parlamentswahlen vom 11. April 2010) hatten ernüchternde Ergebnisse.
Wie steht es mit der erforderlichen Erneuerung der betroffenen Organisationen? Wir werden es weiter beobachten können und beeinflussen. (Vgl. die Parlamentswahlen in der EU seit Juni 2009 mit teilweise großen Besonderheiten wie z.B. in Belgien 2010 - aufgrund des Nationalitäten- und Sprachenkonflikts sind die gesamten Parteien entsprechend gruppiert -, Bulgarien 2009, Griechenland 2009, in der Lettischen Republik 2010, in Portugal 2009, in der Slowakischen Republik 2010 und in der Tschechischen Republik 2010.)
Aktualisierungen seit 26. Januar 2011:
Syria
2012: 29 May 2012: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Gulf states, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA expel Syrian diplomats by reason of the Houla massacre -
6 June: Assad regime bars a string of European and US diplomats a week after governments around the world expelled its top diplomats -
26 June 2012: NATO chief condemns Syria over jet downing -
23. Juli 2012: Das Assad Regime droht, im Falle eines 'ausländischen Angriffs' auch Chemiewaffen einzusetzen -
16 August: UN to close Syria observer mission -
16 août 2012: La Syrie mise au ban de la communauté musulmane par l'OCI -
25 septembre: À l’ONU, Obama et Hollande accordent leur discours contre Bachar al-Assad -
28 September: USA and France unveil new aid for civilians as UN remains uncapable of working for long-term prospects of the Syrians -
5 octobre 2012: Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU condamne les tirs syriens en Turquie et exige que 'de telles violations du droit international cessent immédiatement' -
13 décembre: L'opposition obtient un appui de taille des Arabes et des Occidentaux
October/November 2015 Syria conference in Vienna: October 2015 Syria conference in Vienna at the level of foreign ministers of the USA, the European Union, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE -
30 October 2015: Amid ongoing war crimes committed by Assad's, the Iranian and Russian regimes talks under way in Vienna on Friday, but the opposition is not invited -
30 October: 'Holding the Vienna dialogue without the presence of any Syrian representative is proof that all parties involved are not concerned with the will of Syrian people, despite their claims', London School of Economics' Dr. Rim Turkmani says -
31 October 2015: Making reference to the 'brazen and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law', which was characterized by indiscriminate attacks on civilians areas, such as one reported yesterday in a marketplace in Syria and credited to government forces, UN's Ban Ki-moon along with the head of the ICRC calls for action to stop suffering by ending conflict -
2 November 2015: Assad regime’s air force is dropping dozens of barrel bombs on areas across Syria, just one day after Russia's ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin’s announcement that the Assad regime stopped the use of barrel bombs -
14 November 2015: Paris Islamic State's terror attacks and daily terrorism in Syria heighten pressure at Vienna Syria talks -
18 November 2015: 'The Vienna statement is a reflection of Russian efforts, which began with a military intervention in Syria, killing Syrians for a month and a half', Syrian Coalition says -
9 December 2015: At meeting in Riyadh Syria’s opposition seeks unity against Assad -
11 December: Syrian opposition will form committee to hold further negotiations
Syria/Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) relations: Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
2012: 16 August 2012: OIC suspends Syria, citing al-Assad's suppression of the Syrian opposition
August 2013: 10 August: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says it documented deaths of more than 106,000 people, but warns that actual death toll could be twice as high -
22 August 2013: UN holds emergency meeting on Syria chemical attack outside Damascus,
confirmed by videos, witness accounts and testimonies by emergency medics -
23 August: UN presses Syria to allow gas attack inspection -
23 août: Après l'utilisation d'armes chimiques Ban Ki-moon hausse le ton contre le régime d'Assad -
25 August: UN experts to start Syria chemical arms probe near Damascus from Monday -
26 August: Snipers fire at UN inspectors after their departure for their investigation, later arriving in Moadamiyeh, activists say -
26 August: UN inspectors ordered out by regime after 90 minutes, were not able to visit at least a half-dozen key sites, did not visit any house in the district and refused to take hospital-prepared samples for the committee from some bodies and video documentation, Dr Abu Akram, who runs a makeshift hospital at Mua'adamiyat Al-Sham, says -
27 August: UN experts say they gathered 'valuable' chemical evidence near Damascus despite attack -
29 August: UN Security Council members meet for second day to discuss British resolution calling for military action after a first meeting on Wednesday ended with no agreement
September 2013: 1 September: More than 110,000 people dead in Syria conflict,
the SyriaHR says -
1 September: Sarin gas used in Damascus attack, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday -
13 September: Syrian Coalition calls for an enforceable UN Security Council resolution facing the Assad regime's murderous intent and its attempt to evade international action as well as accountability -
14 September: Announcing that UN experts will give overwhelming confirmation that chemical weapons were used in the August 21 attack at Ghouta, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that Assad has committed 'many crimes against humanity' and must face accountability as part of any political solution -
16 September: Ban Ki-moon will present the report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, as foreign ministers from the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were due to meet French President François Hollande in Paris for talks -
UN report on the use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013 -
17 September 2013: The mass murderer Assad, promising to give one of his weapons to the UN, will continue if the support by his friends doesn't stop -
17 September: Western powers to press Syria resolution at UN, one day after the UN report said that experts had gathered 'clear and convincing evidence' that surface-to-surface rockets took sarin gas into the opposition-held Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21 -
18 September: UN powers hold new Syria chemical talks -
21 September 2013: The OPCW has begun to examine details of the chemical arsenal supplied by the Assad regime -
27 septembre: Accord à l'ONU entre Washington et Moscou sur un texte encadrant la destruction de l'arsenal chimique du régime d'Assad -
27 September: UN investigates seven Syrian chemical cases, some after August 21 attack -
27 September: The Assad regime, that used chemical weapons, faces insufficient consequences for the use of conventional weapons to kill civilians on a daily basis, the SNC says -
28 September: UN adopts resolution to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons,
but does not allow for immediate punitive action if Assad regime fails to comply -
29 September: UN's Ban Ki-moon, pressing for a Syria peace conference and the need to ensure accountability for war crimes, held his first meeting Saturday with Syrian National Coalition's Ahmad Jarba
2015: 8 January: We face the worst refugee crisis since WWII, UN says,
as Middle East winter intensifies -
14 January: UN warns of food crisis for Syrian refugees -
20 January: Syrian Coalition drafts document to restart negotiations under the auspices of the UN following Geneva II Conference -
14 February 2015: De Mistura's remarks drew condemnation from the Syrian National Coalition as well as from activists on the ground, saying that De Mistura is fooling himself if he thinks that Assad is part of the solution and describing the brutality of Assad's regime as the root cause of the conflict -
16 February: Syrian Revolutionary Command Council says it will not meet biased UN envoy de Mistura 'due to his dishonest position towards the revolution of the Syrian people' -
19 February: 'Assad is a partner in terrorism and not a part of the solution', Syrian Coalition's Khoja says in an interview -
20 February: UN's Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein urges Assad regime to release all activists, lawyers and other detainees they have been holding without due process, including detainees jailed since first anti-Assad protests in Syria four years ago -
21 February: UN war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved in Syria's four-year war and push for new ways to bring them to account, in a radical change of strategy announced on Friday,
and in a move welcomed by Syrian Coalition -
27 February: Syrian Assad regime expels two key UN humanitarian staffers over contact with opposition while trying to arrange aid deliveries -
1 mars 2015: L'opposition syrienne rejette un plan de trêve de l'ONU à Alep tandis que le forces du régime avancent au sud du pays -
11 March: Exhibition of photographs showing the victims of atrocities and torture carried out by Assad regime goes on display at UN headquarters -
20 March: More than 640,200 people and nearly three times as many Syrians are living in besieged communities as the UN’s official figures, according to report by the Syrian American Medical Society, that also echoes claims by an increasing number of aid groups that the international response to the overall conflict particularly by UN Security Council has failed -
4 April: Syrian Coalition urges UN and Arab countries to take action to save the residents of Yarmouk from Assad’s barrel bombs and ISIS’s barbarity -
13 April: UNRWA official calls on all sides to 'respect the beleaguered civilians' trapped inside an embattled Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in the Syrian capital -
3 May 2015: The UN is telling Syria's Assad regime that the use of explosive weapons in the besieged Palestinian refugee community of Yarmouk and other populated areas must stop -
21 May: UN relief aid found in regime army positions -
13 October 2015: Syrian Coalition expects a strong response from the international community to stop the Russian aggression on Syria, stressing that the Assad regime, with the support of Russia and Iran, continues to commit crimes against the Syrian people -
21 October: Syrian Coalition calls on the UN Security Council to take 'firm and effective' action to stop the Russian aggression on the Syrian people following the horrible massacre committed by the Russian air force yesterday in rural Latakia where 80 people were killed
2015: 21 March 2015: Syrian Coalition decides not to go to Moscow II meetin -
12 September 2015: The Syrian Coalition strongly condemns Russia’s direct military intervention in Syria, stressing that by this aggressive act, Russia has moved from supporting Assad in his genocidal war to directly intervene in Syria on the regime's side -
14 September 2015: Russia sends artillery and T-90 tanks to Syrian Assad regime as part of continued military buildup -
18 September: Russia's direct military intervention in Syria undermine all efforts aimed at reaching a political solution and will serve the interests of the extremist forces that feed on chaos and instability, Syrian Coalition says -
Since 30 September 2015 Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War, first attacking areas in Latakia, Homs, and Hama province and murdering 36 civilians, including five children, and wounding Free Syrian Army members -
1 October: Syrian Coalition and rebel factions condemn the Russian aggression against the Syrian people pointing out that the airstrikes on Homs and Hama where over 50 people were killed have exposed Russia's real intentions in front of the international community -
1 October: East Ghouta protest against Russia's military intervention in Syria condemning the massacres committed by the Russian air force against civilians and rejecting all forms of foreign intervention in Syria -
2 October: Syrian Coalition appeals to Syrians, Arabs and the free world to raise their voice high and protest in front of the Russian embassies against Assad's, Russian and Iranian murderous aggression on the Syrian people -
4 November: Syrian Coalition will not attend a meeting called for by Moscow's regime while Russian forces are killing the Syrian people -
24 November 2015: FSA's General Ahmed Berri said that Turkey downed a Russian jet fighter after it bombed civilians in the town of Jisr al-Shughur and violated the Turkish airspace, revealing that the FSA fighters captured the one of the pilots while the second one was killed -
26 November: Syrian Coalition strongly condemns the Russian air force’s targeting of a relief aid convoy near Izaz, which left six civilians killed and burnt eight trucks, as Russia also intensified air strikes on the rebel-held villages along the Turkish border in northern rural Latakia -
27 November 2015: Russia renewed its air strikes on aid vehicles near the Turkish border, targeting a convoy in Sarmada in Idlib province
2013: 6 January 2013: The US has condemned a speech by Syria's President Assad that denounced his opponents as 'puppets of the West' -
9 February 2013: Syria fighting rages as US weighs next steps according to new Secretary of State John Kerry -
27 February: US 'to bolster support' for Syrian rebels -
28 February: US pledges $60 million in non-lethal aid for Syrian opposition -
20 March: The United States evaluating allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria dismissed charges that the opposition had used such weapons -
10 avril: L'opposition syrienne renouvelle sa demande d'armes en marge du G8 -
21 April: The United States will double its aid to Syria's opposition, including with new non-lethal military equipment, John Kerry says -
25 April: After France, Britain and Israel, also US believes Assad's forces used chemical weapons but says 'facts' needed -
26 April 2013: Barack Obama says Syria chemical weapons reports a 'game changer' -
2 mai: Les Etats-Unis n'écartent plus d'armer l'opposition -
7 May: US expressed doubts over Del Ponte’s revelations -
8 mai: Proposition conjointe des États-Unis et de la Russie d’organiser une conférence internationale sur la guerre en Syrie -
8 May: Syrian opposition leaders have reacted sceptically to a joint call by the US and Russia for an international conference to discuss the creation of a transitional government in Damascus -
9 May: US Secretary of State John Kerry says Assad would have no role in a political settlement to Syria's conflict, announcing a further $100m in aid for Syrian refugees, $43m of which would go to Jordan -
16 May: At a joint news conference Turkish PM Erdogan und US president Obama call for Syria's Assad to resign -
16 May: US President Obama says the US has seen evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria, after talks with Turkey's PM Erdogan -
22 May: The USA and its allies are ready to increase support for Syria's opposition if Assad refuses to discuss a political solution to civil war, US-Kerry says in Amman before a meeting of the 'Friends of Syria' group -
30 May: US demands Hezbollah withdrawal from Syria -
31 May: Syria peace talks likely to be postponed as Russia plans to ship more weapons -
1 June 2013: US Secretary of State John Kerry has strongly condemned Russia's pledge to sell an advanced missile system to the Syrian Assad regime, questioning Russia's commitment to end the Syrian conflict, as concern grew for civilians trapped in the battle for Qusayr -
3 June: After meetings with the Syrian opposition last week, US Senator John McCain has intensified his criticism of President Obama’s handling of the Syria crisis, calling for a no-fly zone, arming of rebels, and establishment of protected areas for refugees -
14 June: The United States now says the Assad regime has used lethal nerve gas Sarin against opposition forces -
23 July: US edges closer to arming Syrian opposition against Assad regime -
21 August: White House ‘deeply concerned’ about reports of 1,300 killed in chemical attack in Syria – a year after Obama said use of such weapons was a ‘red line’ -
24 August: Initial Western intelligence finds Assad forces used chemical weapons -
28 August: US newspaper site attacked by hackers who support Assad regime -
28 August: Joe Biden says 'no doubt' Syrian regime used chemical weapons and that it must be held accountable for the 'heinous' action -
28 August: Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack', information passed to US by Israeli Defence Forces's 8200 unit, former official says -
28 August: US intelligence intercepted a panicked phone call between Assad army officials shortly after the chemical weapons attack on civilians near Damascus on August 21, according to the magazine Foreign Policy -
30 August: Secretary of State John Kerry said there is 'clear' and 'compelling' evidence that the Assad regime used poison gas against its citizens, adding that more than 1,400 people were killed, including more than 400 children -
30/31 August: US President Barack Obama says that 'we cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale' and that the US is weighing 'limited, narrow' action against Assad's regime
2015: 14 March 2015: Nearly 13,000 Syrians tortured to death by Assad regime, 20,000 vanished since beginning of war, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -
23 March 2015: A defected member of Assad’s forces has recounted more horrifying testimonies of the Assad regime’s killing of detainees by torture -
2 April 2015: Although widely supported amongst the Syrian Christian community prior to the revolution, Assad regime forces purportedly tortured Christians inside security facilities, rights group says -
2 April: The Syrian Human Rights Committee confirmed three Palestinian sisters died under torture at the hands of Assad regime's intelligence inside Branch 235 -
8 July 2015: Hundreds of thousands of Syrians, including women and children, continue to await release from regime prisons, according to human rights group -
1 October 2015: Caesar, the Syrian military photographer who smuggled shocking evidence of torture out of Assad’s dungeons,
tells his story for the first time -
21 October: Female activist speaks of living nightmare after surviving regime prison -
5 November 2015: The Assad regime and allied militia have detained and abducted tens of thousands of people since 2011 in a campaign that is a crime against humanity, rights group says -
1 December 2015: The killing of thousands of prisoners in Assad's infamous Sednaya military prison in Damascus detailed by witness
2012-2015: 19. März 2012: Das Volumen weltweiter Rüstungsgeschäfte hat in den vergangenen fünf Jahren um 24 Prozent zugenommen - auf die beiden grössten Rüstungsexporteure USA 30% und Russland 24% entfällt mehr als die Hälfte der weltweiten Waffenlieferungen - mit einem Anstieg um 580 Prozent steigerte vor allem Syrien die Waffenimporte seit dem Jahr 2002 deutlich -
28 May 2012: Syrian army being aided by Iranian forces -
25. Juni 2012: Aus der syrischen Armee setzen sich offenbar immer mehr ranghohe Militärs ab -
13 février: La Russie continuera de livrer des armes à la Syrie -
29 May: Russia to send Assad regime air defence system -
31 May 2013: Russia to sell at least 10 MiG fighters in an advanced version to Assad regime, that bombs and kills the own people -
6 June 2013: Between 11 and 15 North Korean military officers are advising the Assad regime forces in tactics and the use of artillery against the opposition -
27 August 2013: North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition -
21 April 2015: As the Syrian crisis enters its fifth year under a deteriorating economic climate, the regime reportedly increasingly unable to pay the salaries of shabeeha and militias fighting beside them -
8 June 2015: Despite Western sanctions, Assad's military forces and militias in possession of munitions from Germany, China, Egypt, Russia and USA (including cluster munitions used against many Syrian cities), leaked report claims -
30 July 2015: Zaman al-Wasl recently obtained a list of 21,000 Syrian army defectors across the war-torn country, a document that reflects deteriorating condition of regime forces -
17 September 2015: Assad's army starts using new Russian ground and air weapons -
15 October: Regime forces execute soldiers for refusing to participate in battles in the countryside of Hama, with summary executions taking place inside Hama Airport
Aleppo province:
Damascus province:
Hama province:
Homs province:
Idlib province:
Since 1970s/1980s Assad regime's chemical weapons program: Syria's chemical weapons program began in the 1970s with weapons and training from Egypt and the Soviet Union, with production of chemical weapons in Syria beginning in the mid-1980s -
Syrian chemical weapons production facilities identified by experts at approximately 5 sites, plus one suspected weapons base, in al-Safira (Scud missile base), Hama (Scud missile base), Homs, Latakia and Palmyra -
Scientific Studies and Research Center, or CERS, a Syrian Assad regime agency responsible for research and development of nuclear, biological, chemical and missile technology and weapons, including ballistic missiles, as well as advanced conventional arms, according to analysts -
Barzah scientific research centre, a Syrian facility located in Barzeh near Damascus and destroyed during the April 2018 bombing
15-17 April 2018: 15 April 2018: Israeli company says analysis of images reveals three main buildings of Barzeh chemical weapons research and development site near Damascus completely destroyed by the USA, Britain, and France bombing campaign, as allied missiles struck at the heart of a Syrian chemical weapons arsenal in a show of force and resolve punishing the Assad government for a suspected poison gas attack against civilians, also targeting a chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs, believed to be the main site of Assad's sarin and precursor chemical production equipment, and a chemical weapons equipment storage facility and an important command post also west of Homs, according to general Dunford -
15 April 2018: Satellite images show craters at alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities and extensive damage -
15 April 2018: Despite 14 April strikes, Assad retains chemical capability, Pentagon admits, as defected general in northern Syria says allied attacks didn't target the 'heart' of Assad's program, and his air force, including helicopters he has used to drop chemical weapons on civilians, were spared -
16 April 2018: Combined attack by the USA, UK and France on Assad regime’s chemical warfare bases proved that Russian regime does not have the military capabilities necessary to prevent allied forces from destroying targets that are ostensibly under its protection -
17 April 2018: USA-led airstrikes in Syria hit their targets before Assad's missile defenses even fired, as electronic warfare suppression, a decoy battle group in the Mediterranean and never-before-used stealth missiles were all part of the attack
Since 2011 Assad's war and Syrian economic crisis:
24 May 2021 Syrians pay tax to rebuild as cost of destruction from Assad's war earlier estimated at some $388bn: 24 May 2021: Syrians pay tax to rebuild after war but see little benefit, as an estimated 6.2 million people have been internally displaced by Assad's and his accomplices' war, which has plunged the country into a deep economic and humanitarian crisis, as a further 5.6 million have fled and are registered as refugees, and as in 2018 the UN estimated the cost of destruction from the war at some $388bn, nearly 20 times more than Syria’s entire economy was worth in 2020,
and as Syria is set to hold presidential elections this Wednesday, amid ongoing war, ruin, raging poverty, but as Assad is guaranteed to win fake election -
24 May 2021: Syrian Democratic Council reaffirms rejection of presidential elections
6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake and aftershocks: 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake, with multiple aftershocks that struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. They occurred 34km west of the city of Gaziantep, causing widespread damage and tens of thousands of fatalities. It was felt and caused structural damage as far as Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus, and the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The earthquake's numerous aftershocks included an unusually powerful Mww 7.5 nine hours after the main quake. As of 9 February, more than 22,210 deaths have been reported, 18,342 in Turkey and 3,868 in Syria. A large winter storm hampered rescue efforts, dropping snow on the ruins and bringing plummeting temperatures. Due to the freezing temperatures in the areas, survivors, especially those trapped under debris, are at a great risk of hypothermia.
Kobanî city, recent history: Kobanî city in northern Syria, lying immediately south of the Syria–Turkey border. As a consequence of the Syrian civil war, the city came under the control of the Kurdish-majority YPG militia in 2012 and became the administrative center of the Kobani Canton, later transformed into Euphrates Region of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. From September 2014 to January 2015, the city was under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Most of the eastern parts of the city were destroyed and most of the population fled to Turkey. In 2015, many returned and reconstruction began. In mid October 2019, Kurdish forces accepted the entry of Assad's military and Russian military police in a bid to stop Turkey from invading the town. Prior to Assad's war agaomst tje Syrian people, Kobanî was recorded as having a population of close to 45,000 citizens. According to 2013 estimates, the majority of the inhabitants were Kurds, with Arab, Turkmen, and Armenian minorities.
July/August 2016: 4 July 2016: 825 people killed, including 128 civilians during 35 days of military operations in Manbij city and its area -
17 July 2016: The USA led coalition warplanes bombarded areas of Menbej city what killed 6 civilians including a woman with 4 of her children and an old man -
1 August 2016: Civil Defense Corps declared a state of emergency in Aleppo after regime and Russian warplanes targeted residential areas located close to the so-called humanitarian corridors -
1 August 2016: Rebel and FSA fighters evacuate civilians in Southern Aleppo to safe areas as Russia and Assad regime continue to bomb hospitals -
2 August 2016: Syrian opposition factions on Monday continued their assault to break the siege on the blockaded areas of Aleppo -
8 August 2016: Rebel and FSA fighters delivered the first batch of aid convoys to liberated parts of Aleppo after breaking the siege imposed by Assad's, Russian and Iranian forces, as Turkey's Erdogan heads to Moscow to shake bloody hands of Putin -
12 August: USA-backed forces have seized full control of the northern Syrian city of Manbij after the last remaining 'Islamic State' terrorists left -
12 August 2016: Free Syrian Army in Aleppo says that the primary aim of the ongoing battle in the city is 'defending civilians', expressing readiness to cooperate fully with the UN to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid to all areas of Aleppo and to defend 'civilians of all religions and sects' -
13 August: More than 2,000 'Islamic State' terrorists' hostages freed from Syrian city of Manbij -
13 August 2016: Just 24 hours after the last remaining doctors in eastern Aleppo wrote to USA President Obama for help, a children's hospital and an open market have been hit in airstrikes killing 18 people, as injured children taken to the few remaining medical facilities become targets -
15 August: The rebel factions make sand berms and enter food to the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, prices are still high in the western section of the city -
15 August: After ousting the Islamic State terrorists from Manbij, USA-backed Syria forces, establishing a military council, say next target is al-Bab -
19 August 2016: In an Aleppo underground orphanage, luckier orphans sleep as safely as anyone can in a city at war, though they are jolted awake regularly by bombs ripping apart the streets above them -
20 August: Brother of Syrian five-year-old Omran Daqneesh pulled from Aleppo rubble dies in hospital following bombardment of regime and Russian aircraft
As-Suwayda Governorate: As-Suwayda Governorate, one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is the southernmost governorate and has an area of 5,550km² and forms part of the historic Hawran region. Its capital and major city is al-Suwayda. Geographically the governorate comprises almost all of Jabal al-Druze, the eastern part of Lejah, and a part of the arid eastern steppe of Harrat al-Shamah. Most of As-Suwayda inhabitants work in agriculture, planting grapes, apple, olive, and wheat in general. In addition, there are four clearly demarcated seasons (winter, spring, summer, and fall) which gives As-Suwayda nice weather and beautiful natural sites. As-Suwayda contains many archaeological sites.
15 March 2011 demonstrations across Syria calling for democratic reforms, the beginning of the 'Syrian revolution' in Daraa: On Tuesday 15 March 2011 - dubbed 'day of rage' by activists - hundreds staged protests in Damascus and Aleppo, calling for democratic reforms. Simultaneous demonstrations took place in major cities across Syria. Thousands of protestors gathered in al-Hasakah, Daraa, Deir ez-Zor, and Hama. There were some clashes with security, according to reports from dissident groups. In Damascus, a smaller group of 200 men grew spontaneously to about 1,500 men. Damascus has not seen such uprising since the 1980s. The official Facebook page called 'Syrian Revolution 2011' showed pictures of supportive demonstrations in Cairo, Nicosia, Helsinki, Istanbul, Berlin, and a reportedly storming of the Syrian Embassy in Paris. Recently released Suhair Atassi, became an unofficial spokesperson for the 'Syrian revolution', when she was interviewed by dozens of Arab and international media channels regarding the uprising. There were reports of 6 arrested in Damascus. Atassi paid tribute to 'the Syrian people who took the initiative ahead of the opposition', recalling the popular uprisings that shook Tunisia and Egypt, as after the first day of the uprising there were reports about approximately 3000 arrests and a few 'martyrs', but there are no official figures on the number of deaths -
10 June 2011: Al-Balad neighborhood in the historic district of Dara'a has become the ghetto of death. Since the end of March, it's been on permanent lockdown, surrounded by the Syrian army. From rooftops and balconies, soldiers shoot those who try to get into or out of the neighborhood. Dara'a is the hotbed of the Syrian uprising, al-Balad its core. It was in this poor neighborhood that the 'Syrian spring' came to life on March 16. People rose out of indignation and anger after the military police tortured a dozen teenagers caught painting graffiti imitating the Egyptian revolution that read 'The people want the regime to fall'.
Jisr ash-Shughur city: Jisr ash-Shughur city in the Idlib Governorate, situated at an altitude of 170m above sea level on the Orontes river, the city was inhabited by 44,322 people as of 2010. The inhabitants are mostly Sunni Muslims, with a significant Christian minority, mostly Greek Orthodox. Jisr ash-Shughur has long been an important stopping point on trade routes. It is situated on the main route between Latakia, which is 75km to the west, and Aleppo, which is 104km to the east. Located in the rich alluvial plain of the Ghab valley on the eastern side of the an-Nusayriyah Mountains, the area has been continuously inhabited for over 10,000 years.
March 2014 local council formed of 14 locally-elected members: 21 March 2014: Al-Ghadfa local council formed of 14 locally-elected members was set up more than a year ago to replace the village’s municipality, to secure the basic municipal services and to supervise such areas as security, protection of public and private properties, education, healthcare, water, electricity, telecommunications, fuel, aid delivery, media services, civil protection, reconstruction, and building administrative and professional capacities
Lattakia port city: Latakia port, the principal port city of Syria, in addition serving as a manufacturing center for surrounding agricultural towns and villages. Latakia is located 348km north-west of Damascus, 186km south-west from Aleppo, 186km north-west of Homs, and 90km north of Tartus. Nearby towns and villages include Kasab to the north, Al-Haffah, Slinfah and Qardaha to the east in the Coastal Mountain Range, and Jableh and Baniyas to the south. Latakia is the capital of the Latakia Governorate, in western Syria, bordering Turkey to the north.
Ugaritic language, literature and music: Ugaritic language and literature, as Ugarit is considered quintessentially Canaanite, as 20th century excavations uncovered a royal palace of ninety rooms laid out around eight enclosed courtyards, and many ambitious private dwellings. Crowning the hill where the city was built were two main temples, one to Baal the 'king', son of El, and one to Dagon, the chthonic god of fertility and wheat. 23 stelae were unearthed, nine stelae, including the famous Baal with Thunderbolt, near the Temple of Baal
1400 BCE Hurrian songs collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets: Hurrian songs are a collection of music inscribed in cuneiform on clay tablets excavated from the ancient Amorite-Canaanite city of Ugarit, a headland in northern Syria, which date to approximately 1400 BCE. One of these tablets, which is nearly complete, contains the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal (also known as the Hurrian cult hymn or A Zaluzi to the Gods, or simply h.6), making it the oldest surviving substantially complete work of notated music in the world. While the composers' names of some of the fragmentary pieces are known, Hurrian cult hymn is an anonymous work -
Hurrian hymn 6 interpreted by Latakia's musicologist Raoul Vitale -
Hittite music of the 17th-12th century BC and of the Syro-Hittite successor states of the 12th-7th century BC, musical instruments including 'Lute', 'Harps', 'Horn', 'Woodwind instrument', 'Drum', 'Cymbals', and other percussion instruments.
Economy of Latakia: Economy of Latakia -
Port of Latakia since February 1950, Syria's main seaport. Its imported cargo include clothing, construction materials, vehicles, furniture, minerals, tobacco, cotton, and food supplies such as lentils, onions, wheat, barley, dates, grains and figs
Timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011: Timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011 7 August 2015 tensions running high among Alawites in Latakia: 7 August 2015: Tensions running high among Alawites in Latakia, after Suleiman al-Assad, a cousin of Syria’s dictator, has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident but has not been arrested -
8 August 2015: More than 1000 protesters in the city of Lattakia demand the execution of Sulaiman al-Assad on the murdering of colonel Hassan al-Sheikh in front of his children -
30 September 2015: Wife of NDF founder, Hilal Assad, injured in shooting attack by sister-in-law Hala Assad (Hilal Assad's sister) and her son Karam, a member of Suleiman al-Assad militia in Lattakia
2016: 5 January 2016: Female activists in Douma has launched a campaign to shed light on the deteriorating situation of education in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs, where thousands of children are without access to education -
5 January 2016: Thousands of residents at risk of starvation as regime forces and Lebanese Hezbollah blockade the town of Madaya in the western countryside of Damascus -
26 February 2016: Saying that 'Shami sacrificed his life to defend Syrian civilians against the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown', Syrian Coalition mourns rebel commander Faisal al-Shami, who was a lecturer in Damascus University before joining the peaceful revolution in 2011, and who was killed defending Darayya against the regime’s attacks on Thursday -
26 March 2016: Local humanitarian organizations warn of an imminent humanitarian disaster threatening nearly 40,000 civilians in the area of al-Marj in eastern Ghouta which is about to be encircled by regime forces -
1 April 2016: Regime’s bombing of school and hospital in Eastern Ghouta met with widespread condemnation -
8 April: Women in Daraya plead with the UN and humanitarian organizations to interfere immediately to lift the siege imposed on the city, to put an end to the daily suffering and impending famine and provide it with aid -
15 June 2016: Daraya has suffered from the loss many necessities due to the siege imposed by the Syrian regime for three years, the blockade has affected all means of trading products in the city, with a number of local merchants monopolizing on rare goods and selling them at high prices -
8 July 2016: Famine continues to stalk Moadamieh despite ending the siege, as residents are unable to afford to buy -
9 August 2016: Leader of the Free Syrian Army’s Al-Rahman Legion, Colonel Abdel Nasser Shamir, escaped an assassination attempt in Eastern Ghouta after a meeting about the 'one army' project also promoted by an association of journalists in the eastern Ghouta -
27 August 2016: Syrian Coalition condemns forced displacement of Daraya residents as the spokesman for the local council in Darya F. Mohammed points out that Mistura's statement regarding the evacuation of Daraya is aimed at evading responsibility to protect the people of Daraya and preventing their forced displacement by the Assad regime, adding that the UN and Mistura chose to remain silent about the regime’s torching of Daraya farmlands, its deliberate bombing of its only field hospital, and its use of incendiary napalm against residential neighborhoods in the district
October 2017: 21 October 2017: In an unprecedented situation, hundreds of hungry people of the Eastern Ghouta seize two warehouses for stored food items -
23 October 2017: One-month-old Sahar, her ribs protruding under translucent skin, breathed her last on Sunday in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, where a crushing regime siege has pushed hundreds of children to the brink of starvation -
23 October 2017: As tens of thousands of civilians in Ghouta are living under a blockade imposed by Assad regime's forces, the continuing suffering of civilians living under siege in Syria has been brought into sharp focus by new images of malnourished children and a baby who later died of starvation in a region on the outskirts of Damascus, that has been under siege since 2012 -
24 October 2017: Syrians have hot water for dinner in hunger-hit besieged town of Hamouria, where over 1,100 children are suffering acute malnutrition, and hundreds more are at risk because of food shortages caused by regime's siege, as basic services for the region’s estimated 400,000 residents are virtually non-existent
March 2018: 5 March 2018: Medical workers in eastern Ghouta held a sit-in in one of the hospitals in the besieged Damascus suburb to protest against the continued bombing campaign by the Assad regime and Russia forces, as the relentless bombardment killed hundreds of civilians, according to international reports -
5 March 2018: Residents in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have begun using UN aid bags as shrouds for children killed in the devastating bombardment by the Assad regime to express their frustration over the organization's inaction -
19 March 2018: Civilians in the Eastern Ghouta, represented by the province council, local councils and civil society groups, call on UN to stop assault and protect civilians -
19 March 2018: Intensive aerial and artillery shelling by Russian and Assad's forces targets several areas in the Eastern Ghouta and the number of casualties increases to more than 1420 citizens -
26 March 2018: A newly taken photo near the Eastern Ghouta suburbs has recalled days of feudalism and enslavement, showing regime officials and pro-Assad warlords distributing sandwiches and water to the evacuees from the stricken district -
26 March 2018: As more than 105,000 people have been evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta suburbs, some 6,000 men and youths have been placed in the Al-Duwair detention center, amid reports of poor humanitarian conditions
20th/21st centuries history of Qamishli city, since 2011 Assad's war against the Syrian people: 20th/21st centuries history of Qamishli city, dating back to the 1920s, when a sizable amount of Assyrians, escaping the Assyrian genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire, fled from northwestern Iran and southern Turkey and built a small town, under the French Mandate authorities after WWI, which they initially called Bet-Zalin. The city itself was officially founded as Qamishli in 1926 as a railway station on the Taurus railway. Qamishli is considered a center for both the Kurdish and the Assyrian ethnic groups in Syria. It was heavily settled by refugees from the Assyrian genocide. Assyrians were the majority in the city until the 1970s, when Kurds from the surrounding countryside moved into the city in numbers. In the 1960s and until the late 1970s, when Assyrians still constituted two-thirds of the city's population, the government of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party Syria actively confiscated Assyrian farms, lands, and areas, causing an Assyrian exodus. in the 2010s Qammishli city became theater of Assad's war against the Syrian people, 2015 Qamishli bombings, Battle of Qamishli in 2016, July 2016 Qamishli bombings, Qamishli clashes in 2018), Siege of Qamishli and Al-Hasakah, Battle of Qamishli in 2021.
22 September 2017 Northern Syria local elections: 22 September 2017 Northern Syria local elections, as representatives of 3,700 communes in the regions of the Northern Syria Federation were elected, involving 12,421 candidates, and 728,450 votes representing 70% of eligible voters were reported to have been cast in total, with 437,142 from the Jazira Region, 135,611 from the Euphrates Region and 155,697 from the Afrin Region
Aramaic languages: Aramaic, a family of languages belonging to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family, during its approximately 3,000 years of written history, Aramaic has served variously as a language of administration of empires and as a language of divine worship -
Neo-Aramaic languages -
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, spoken in a region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran, to the Nineveh plains, and the Irbil, Mosul, Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern Iraq, together with the Al Hasakah region of northeastern Syria, formerly parts of southeastern Turkey and has spread throughout the Assyrian diaspora
12 April 2020 Syria reports more covid-19 cases: 12 April 2020: 116 Iranians and Iranian-backed foreign militiamen are infected with the new coronavirus, while the number of infected Syrians in regime-controlled areas has risen to 42
20 September 2020 in regime-held areas covid-19 cases jumps to nearly 26,000, 1,300 die so far: 20 September 2020: In Assad regime-held areas the number of confirmed covid-19 cases jumps to nearly 26,000, 1,300 die so far, while authorities continue misinformation, as most of the infection cases and deaths are still documented in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus and Rif Dimashq, amid disastrous medical situation
2017 targeted destruction of medical facilities and killing of hundreds of healthcare workers: 15 March 2017: The 'weaponisation' of healthcare in Syria, involving the targeted destruction of medical facilities and the killing of hundreds of healthcare workers, including torture and executions, is unprecedented and has profound and dangerous implications for medical neutrality in conflict zones,
according to a Lancet study,
also criticising UN agencies and the international community for failing to hold the aggressors, who are breaking international conventions, to account -
27 March 2017: The Assad regime and its allies bombed up to 107 hospitals and medical centers in the rebel-held areas across Syria in 2016, a monitoring group said -
27 March 2017: Assad regime bombs town of Latamina in Hama province with toxic gas, knocks out its hospital -
11 May 2017: Doctors in Syria have turned to crowdfunding in a desperate attempt to keep makeshift hospitals running in caves and underground -
14 December 2017: WHO and Handicap International said that an estimated 1.5 million people in Syria are living with permanent disabilities, including 86,000 people whose injuries have led to amputations, also saying that an estimated 30,000 people are injured in Syria every month, as Syrian Interim Government says that 800,000 Syrian civilians are living with permanent disabilities resulting from bombardment by the Assad regime and its allies
2014: 11 March 2014: The number of children affected by Syrian civil war more than doubled over the past year, with hundreds of thousands of young Syrians trapped in besieged parts of the country, UN says -
14 April 2014: After Assad's war in three years has left 5.5 million children in need of urgent support, Unicef says that Syria's children need guaranteed funding to prevent a 'lost generation' -
17 April 2014: Syrian children at the mercy of mortars, of barrel bombs, of random attacks in all parts of the country, western broadcasters report -
31 July 2014: At Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp near the border with Syria, the horror of the neighboring country's civil war can be seen in the faces of its youngest refugees -
20 May 2015: Over 270,000 cases of permanent disability have been recorded due to Assad's Syrian war, with victims' suffering compounded by international disregard for the Syrian tragedy -
22 September: Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation revealed that 600,000 Syrian orphans currently reside inside Turkey, prompting a group of Turkish writers and journalists to push Ankara to move to foster the children
20 November 2021 30,000 Syrian children killed, including 181 tortured since 2011 SNHR report says: 20 November 2021: In its tenth annual report on violations against children in Syria on the occasion of International Children’s Day, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said that 29,661 children were killed by the parties to the conflict and the controlling forces, 'including 22,930 at the hands of the Syrian Assad regime forces, 2,032 by Russian forces, 958 by ISIS, and 71 others by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham', as the data showed that the Assad regime was responsible for nearly 78% of extrajudicial killings
Corruption in Syria:
2015: 9 January: Syrian opposition calls for aid for refugees and displaced people amid Mideast snow storm,
criticizing some Arab and foreign governments and urging the international community to take immediate action -
9 July: With at least 7.6 milion people forced from their homes within Syria,
the conflict in Syria has now driven more than four million people – a sixth of the population – to seek sanctuary in neighbouring countries, according to the UN -
6 September: For desperate Syrian refugees, the Arab Gulf is not an option -
22 September: Three Syrian refugees, who were among 71 people found dead last month in a truck in Austria, had dreamed of a better life in Germany with a smuggler having promised to get them there by car, a relative says -
3 October 2015: About half of the 380,000 migrants and refugees who have claimed asylum in Europe this year are Syrian, according to UN, but most Syrian refugees are just too poor to flee to Europe -
22 October 2015: The Russian airstrikes on several areas in Syria have led to a new wave of displacement, with approximately 1000 refugees arrived alone in Turkey over the past week -
9 November 2015: Tens of thousands of newly displaced people fleeing Russian bombing are setting up camps with support from donors and local volunteer teams in northern countryside of Idleb
Since 2011 People's Protection Units YPG of the Federation of Northern Syria Rojava: Since 2011 People's Protection Units YPG, the main armed service of the Federation of Northern Syria Rojava, the YPG is primarily ethnic Kurdish, but it also recruits Arabs, Turks, and Westerners and the Syriac Military Council are Assyrian/Syriac Christian units integrated into its command structure -
Women's Protection Units, an all-female military organization including Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Circassians, and foreign volunteers
August 2011: 1 August: Deadly Syrian crackdown continues -
1. August 2011: Hama erneut unter Beschuß -
2 August: Syrian forces intensify assault -
3. August: Keine UN-Resolution zu Syrien - China, Indien und Rußland blockieren -
3. August: Assad-Regime beschießt Hama weiter mit Panzern -
3 August: UN debate as Syrian massacre goes on - Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa oppose resolution - USA Secretary of State received Syrian opposition activists on Tuesday -
4. August: Panzer im Zentrum von Hama, Explosionen und Gewehrfeuer - fliehende Einwohner -
4 August: UN Security Council condemns use of force by Assad-regime - tanks continue to shell Hama -
4. August: Ban Ki Moon sucht Einwirkungsmöglichkeit auf Assad-Regime -
5. August: Fortgesetzte Gewalt Asads gegen Opposition - die USA verschärfen die Sanktionen -
5 August: Syria demonstrators rally despite crackdown -
5. August: Massenproteste in Irbin (Damaskus), Deir el Sur, Deraa, Homs, Kamischli etc. - Asad läßt weiter töten und Hama angreifen -
5 August USA-statement: 'Western leaders consider additional steps' against Assad regime -
7. August: Syriens Armee rückt mit Panzern in Deir az-Zor ein - Erdogan: Türkei kann kein 'Zuschauer' mehr bleiben -
8. August: Saudi-Arabien zieht Botschafter aus Syrien ab - Forderung nach Stop der 'Todesmaschinerie' - auch Golf-Kooperationsrat verlangt Ende des Blutvergiessens -
8 August: Kuwait recalls Syrian envoy - "No one can accept the bloodshed" - Meeting of GCC announced -
8 August: Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi-Arabia recall ambassadors from Damascus -
9 August:Military assaults continue across Syria -
9 août: Ankara, 'à bout de patience', dépêche son chef de la diplomatie Davutoglu à Damas -
9 August: Syria solidarity rally held in Beirut -
9. August: Asad weist Ansinnen der Türkei brüsk zurück -
10 August: Turkey raises pressure on Syria -
10 August: Syria's crackdown hits ally Hezbollah's image -
10. August: Fortsetzung der Asad-Offensive im Norden - Zerstörungswut auch gegen Moscheen - Algerien verurteilt Gewalt gegen Opposition -
12 August: Crackdown by Assad forces continues with shootings in Deir ez-Zor, Idlib and other cities - one day after US secretary of state urged more pressure, also of Russia (stop of selling arms to Damascus), China and India on Assad -
12 August: Military fires on protesters on Friday across Syria -
13 August: Assad's army enters Latakia -
14 August: Warships shelling districts of Latakia - Assad answers democracy movement -
15 August: Thousands of Palestinian refugees flee camp in Syria's port of Latakia, says UN -
16 August: Military assault continues in Latakia -
16 August: Assad targets Latakia for fourth day-
17. August: Tunesien ruft Botschafter aus Syrien zurück -
17 August 2011: Russia is continuing to supply weapons to Assad-Syria -
19. August: UN untersucht Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Syrien -
19 August: New Syrian protests called amid pressure on Assad - killed and injured protesters in Deraa province and other regions -
19. August: Rußland stellt sich gegen EU und USA und erklärt seine weitere Unterstützung für Asad -
20. August: Zahlreiche Tote bei Protesten in Syrien am Freitag -
20 août: L'armée syrienne déploie des blindés dans la ville de Homs -
22. August: Nur kurz nach TV-Auftritt Asads und vor Beginn der Sondersitzung des UN-Menschrechtsrates erschießen seine Anhänger zwei Bürger Hamas -
22 août: Le conseil des droits de l'Homme de l'ONU dénonce la répression, le bilan s'alourdit -
22 August: Arab nations pressure Syría at UN -
23. August: Ban Ki Moon über Asad: "Es ist beunruhigend, daß er nicht Wort gehalten hat." -
23 août: L'ONU approuve la création d'une commission d'enquête sur les violences en Syrie -
23. August: Asad erlaubt in Homs Beobachtung einer Demonstration durch ein UN-Team um nach Fortgang des Teams Demonstranten erschießen zu lassen -
24 August: USA and Europe push for UN sanctions against Assad regime -
25. August: Erneut viele Tote bei Protesten in Damaskus, Deir az-Zor, Homs, Idlib und Latakia -
26 August: Security forces open fire on protesters near Damascus -
27 August: Morning protests in Syrian capital - attacks of Assad's forces -
28 August: Arab states seek end to Syria crisis - secretary general to carry out an urgent mission -
28 August: Arab states seek end to Syria crisis - secretary general to carry out an urgent mission -
29 August: Syrian town of Rastan, north of Homs, 'surrounded by tanks' -
31 August: US-sanctions target three Syrian officials -
31 August: UK-based rights group says there is evidence of torture in Syria - 88 deaths in detention revealed -
31 August: US-sanctions target three Syrian officials -
31 August: Hama top attorney general resigns over what he calls executions and torture by Assad's regime
February 2012: 3. Februar: Unruhen in Aleppo - Hamas-Führung hat Syrien verlassen -
4 February: Syrian forces 'in Homs massacre' -
4 February: In a barrage of mortar shells, Assad's forces kill 200 people and wound hundreds in Homs -
4 February: 'Hundreds of casualties' in Syria's Homs after Assad's forces deploy tanks and mortars -
4. Februar: Rußland und China legen Veto gegen UN Syrien Resolution ein -
5 February: Western and Arab League nations deplore Syria draft UN veto by Russia and China -
5 February: UN veto gives Assad 'licence to kill', opposition says -
5 February: US to block funding and arms to Syria and Arab League says it will not stop efforts to resolve crisis despite the bloc's failure at the UN -
6 February: Assad's army steps up shelling in Homs -
7 février: L'OSDH dénombre une centaine de morts après les bombardements sur Homs -
7 February: Assad's army renews assault on Homs as Russia's foreign minister is due in Damascus for talks with the Assad regime -
8 février: Au lendemain des promesses de Bachar al-Assad, les violences se poursuivent -
8 February: Syrian opposition dismisses assurances that Assad is committed to ending violence -
8 February: Assad's army operations continue in Homs a day after he pledged to end the violence -
9 février: Homs toujours assiégée - selon Ban Ki-moon la Ligue arabe souhaite reprendre une mission conjointe d'observation en Syrie -
9 February: The 'disastrous' failure to agree a UN resolution on Syria had encouraged Damascus 'to step up its war on its own people', UN chief Ban Ki-moon says - Arab proposal of a joint UN-Arab League observer mission, including a joint special envoy -
10 February: Obama condemns onslaught on Homs as the international community tries to resolve the crisis in Syria -
10 February: Fears of major assault as Assad's tanks encircle Homs -
11 February: Demonstrations were held in cities across Syria on what activists called, "Russia is killing our children" -
11 February: Assad regime and opposition blame each other for Aleppo blasts - Free Syrian Army says it has clashed with Assad forces in the area but that the government was behind the explosions -
11 February: An Assad military general shot in Damascus as the violence against the people and demonstration continue - "The Syrian people are slaughtered, where is the world?" -
12 February: The Arab League calls for a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping mission in Syria -
13. Februar: Assad läßt den Beschuss von Homs fortsetzen während die Arabische Liga den UN-Sicherheitsrat auffordert, Friedenstruppen nach Syrien zu schicken -
14 février: Dixième jour consécutif de bombardements sur la ville de Homs -
14 February: The UN General Assembly considers more wellknown statements as Assad's violence and crimes against the Syrian people continue and escalate in a second year -
15 février: L'armée syrienne entre dans Hama et poursuit les bombardements sur Homs -
15 February: Syria violence unabated as diplomats push for UN General Assembly resolution -
16 February: As his forces continue assaults on Homs and Hama Assad is in a hurry to promise another vote on a new constitution -
17 February: UN General Assembly wants Assad out -
17 February: UN General Assembly votes 137 to 12 a resolution calling for halt to violence, as Assad's forces pound protest hubs -
17 February: Nato rules out intervention despite escalating violence in parts of the country a day after it received a UN rebuke and as Assad intensifies bombardement of Homs in revenge for UN vote -
18 February: Violent crackdown on protests continues despite the arrival of a Chinese diplomat for talks on the unrest -
18 février: A l'occasion des funérailles de manifestants tués vendredi dans le quartier de Mazzé à Damas, les forces d'Assad ont tiré sur la foule faisant au moins un mort -
19 February: Syria's economy is being crippled by foreign sanctions and the government is slowly disintegrating, the businessman Faisal al-Qudsi says -
22. Februar: Zwei westliche Journalisten bei Assads Beschuß von Homs getötet - Ermordung von 27 festgenommenen Zivilisten durch Assad-Truppen -
22. Februar: Syriens Opposition sieht Intervention als geringeres Übel -
23 February: Democratic countries condemn Assad regime on Wednesday for the killing of two foreign journalists -
23 February: British Marie Colvin and French Remi Ochlik killed in deadly assault on city as activists warn of humanitarian crisis -
23. Februar: Laut UN-Bericht werden Greueltaten von Assad-Regime angeordnet -
24 February: A major world conference is being held in Tunisia to seek a breakthrough in the increasingly bitter Syrian unrest -
24 February: Western and Arab powers are to push Syria to allow in desperately needed humanitarian aid at an International conference on Friday -
25 February: Officials from more than 70 nations vowed more sanctions on Assad's government and called for aid to be brought in -
25 février: À Homs des blessés évacués, les deux journalistes toujours coincés -
25 February: Ambulances evacuate 27 people from besieged Homs neighbourhood, but Red Cross says crisis is getting worse by the hour -
26 February: At least 50 killed in Syria as regime pounds Homs and as tv-channels repeat statements of the Tunisian conference -
26. Februar: Referendum in Syrien von neuer Gewalt begleitet -
27 February: Syria holds referendum, West calls it a 'farce' meant to justify the bloody crackdown on dissent -
28 February: EU targets Syria ministers with sanctions -
28. Februar: Das Töten in Syrien geht unvermindert weiter -
29 February: Syria civilian death toll 'well over 7,500', UN says -
29 February:
'Immediate ceasefire' urged in Syria - UN rights chief condemns attacks on civilians and demands humanitarian access in an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
March 2012: 1 March: Assad's forces launch ground assault on rebel city of Homs -
2 March: Assad's forces overrun Baba Amr as rebels retreat -
2 March: UN rights body condemns Assad regime, calls for aid access -
2 March: Aid convoy blocked from Baba Amro, Red Cross says -
3 March: Homs is 'medieval siege and slaughter', the wounded photographer Paul Conroy says -
3 March: The Assad regime has committed clear and widespread crimes against the civilian population and the international community fails in its duty, the UN secretary general says in an address to the General Assembly -
3 mars: Le régime syrien continue à bombarder Homs et bloque un convoi du CICR -
4 March: More areas bombarded and aid agencies denied access to desperate neighbourhoods by Assad's forces as China calls for immediate ceasefire -
5 mars: Le CICR attend encore d'entrer dans le quartier rebelle de Homs -
5 mars: À Deraa, d'intenses combats éclatent entre l'armée d'Assad et insurgés, la ville de Rastane a été la cible des bombardements de troupes pro-régime -
6 March: Assad's forces bomb Rastan despite diplomatic pressure -
6 March: Red Cross aid reaches besieged city of Homs but not its worst-hit areas amid reports of shelling and violence across the nation -
6 March: Patients tortured in a military hospital in the city of Homs -
7 mars: Assauts sur plusieurs villes, la responsable des missions humanitaires de l'ONU attendue -
7 mars: La cheffe des activités humanitaires de l'ONU, Valérie Amos, est entrée mercredi après-midi dans le quartier de Baba Amr -
8 mars: Le vice vice-ministre syrien du Pétrole, Abdo Hussameddine, a annoncé dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi sa démission et qu'il rejoignait l'opposition -
9. März: Vier weitere hochrangige Offiziere der Assad-Armee zur Opposition übergelaufen -
9 March: The president of the Syrian National Council Burhan Ghalioun rejects Kofi Annan's dialogue call with Assad criticizing Annan for "avoiding" any references to the essence of the problem, Laurence Lee reports -
11 March: UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, on a two-day peace mission to Damascus, is due to hold a second round of talks with Assad as Assad's forces attack the northern town of Idlib -
12 March: 'Many dead' in fresh Homs attacks -
12 March: Many Syrians,women and children killed by Assad's forces in the two major Syrian flashpoint cities of Homs and Idlib hours after Kofi Annan continued talks with Assad -
12 mars: Le bain de sang continue en Syrie, l'ONU s'inquiète de la situation -
12 March: 'We urge UN Security Council to revoke Assad’s licence to kill', say Andreas van Agt, Lyudmila Alexeyewa, Robert Badinter, Shirin Ebadi, Jan Egeland, Glenys Kinnock, David Milliband, Marwan Muasher and others -
13 March: Syria is laying landmines near its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees to escape the violence -
14. März: Bericht einer Gefangenenhilfsorganisation über systematische Folter des Assad-Regimes -
14 March: Assad's forces have re-established 'control' in the northern city of Idlib -
15 March: Assad's troops intensify offensive to crush opposition fighters in north and south, as anti-Assad uprising enters second year -
15. März: Die FAO warnt vor einer sich verschärfenden Lebensmittel-Knappheit für 1,4 Millionen Menschen wegen des Konflikts in Syrien sowie einer Dürre -
15 mars: Les pays arabes du Golfe ferment leurs ambassades à Damas -
16 March: Assad opponents press for foreign military intervention as Kofi Annan prepares to brief UN body on diplomatic efforts -
18 March:
Deadly blasts on Saturday morning in Damascus - at least 27 killed and 97 wounded in what state television alleged were terrorist attacks on security buildings -
19 March: 'Heavy fighting' shakes Syrian capital -
19 March 2012: Secret papers prepared for Assad by intelligence and security chiefs throw light on his strategy to quell protests -
19 March 2012: Syrian survivors tell of Idlib massacre after their wounded were shot and their dead defiled -
21 March: Assad's forces launch military assaults in different parts of the country as key ally Russia now says that Damascus made 'a lot of mistakes' in handling the unrest -
22 March: The UN Security Council adopts a statement backing joint UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's plan for ending the year-long violence in Syria as Assad's crackdown on opposition strongholds continues -
22. März: Assads Regime setzt trotz des Appells des Uno-Sicherheitsrates die Angriffe auf die Protesthochburgen unvermindert fort, unterschätzt aber die EU, die zur Durchsetzung des Appells endlich mit Konsequenz reagiert und ... ein Einreiseverbot gegen Assads Ehefrau plant, damit diese nicht mehr demonstrativ wie in jüngster Vergangenheit nach London und Paris zum shopping reist -
22 mars: Les violences ont fait jeudi au moins 62 morts à travers la Syrie, dont plus trente civils, malgré l'appel du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU -
23 March: Demonstrations in Syria numbered in the hundreds of thousands - thousands of people took part in "Damascus, Here We Come" demonstrations -
24 March: Assad's troops bomb towns and clash with opposition fighters in several areas of Syria -
24 March: Assad's troops use tanks and artillery to regain control of the northern town of Saraqib, as deadly clashes and bombardments continue to rage across the country -
24 March: Assad's army shells Homs with Russian weapons as Annan goes to Russia shaking hands -
26 March: Syria's divided opposition groups are due to meet in Turkey to try to draw up a 'national pact' how to unseat Assad's government -
26. März: Türkei schliesst Botschaft in Syrien -
28 March: Assad regime 'accepts' Annan plan 'to end crisis' -
28. März: Die syrische Opposition einigt sich - Syrischer Nationalrat als Repräsentant anerkannt -
28. März: Assad setzt weiter auf Gewalt - Panzerverbände rücken in Kalaat al-Madik ein - landesweite Gefechte -
28 March: Peace plan fails - cities shelled and neighbourhoods raided, a day after Assad regime accepted UN-Arab League initiative -
29 mars: L'armée d'Assad intensifie ses opérations contre les rebelles, en violation du plan Annan -
29 March: Assad's army kills two journalists - the British Walid Blidi and Nassim Terreri - in Syria, 'Reporters Without Borders' say -
30 March: Violence in Syria continues as Arab League ends meeting in Iraq with call for Assad to act upon UN-backed peace plan -
30 March: UN envoy's spokesperson says 'deadline is now' for Assad's forces to halt attacks on opposition and implement peace plan -
31 mars: Le régime syrien dit avoir vaincu la révolte alors que des combats font rage
April 2012: 1 April: Second 'Friends of Syria' summit on Sunday in Istanbul amid international calls for Assad regime to implement a six-point peace plan -
1 April: The 'Friends of Syria' say in a final communique that Assad doesn't have an open-ended opportunity to meet his commitments to Annan -
1 avril: Les 'Amis de la Syrie' réunis à Istanbul reconnaissent le Conseil National Syrien comme 'représentant légitime de tous les Syriens' -
2 April: Aid pledged to Syrian opposition groups -
2 April: Kofi Annan says Assad regime has accepted an April 10 deadline to begin implementing plan that calls for end to violence -
3 avril: Le régime d'Assad commencera à appliquer un plan de paix avant le 10 avril, les Etats-Unis sceptiques -
3 April: UN team expected in Syria within 48 hours to discuss deployment of 200 to 250 unarmed observers -
3 April: Syrian cities bombarded by Assad's army as truce deadline nears -
3 April: The US ambassador to the UN warns Assad regime over violence as Turkey says that it will not turn its back on the Syrian people -
5 April: Fierce clashes near Syrian capital -
5 April: Activist reports of shelling, tank assaults and dozens killed, despite government's pledge to begin withdrawing forces -
6 April: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that Syria's conflict is deepening and attacks on civilian areas show no sign of abating as Security Council threatens further steps unless government honours ceasefire -
7 April: Tens of thousands of Syrian protesters took to the streets for anti-government rallies on Friday, as regime forces pounded rebel cities -
7 April: Ban Ki-moon accuses Syria of violating UN demands - satellite photos show Assad's heavy weapons -
7 April: At least 100 people have died on one of the bloodiest days in the Syrian uprising -
7 avril: À quelques jours de la date butoir fixée par l'ONU, la répression continue en Syrie -
8 April: US tells Syria to abide by ceasefire -
9. April: China verlangt, daß die Assad-Regierung ihre Zusagen bezüglich einer Waffenruhe und eines Rückzugs der Truppen aus den Protesthochburgen einhält -
9 April: Extrajudicial executions during recent attacks by Assad's army, Human Rights Watch says in a report -
9 April: Gunfire from Assad's army hits refugee camp inside Turkey -
10 avril: L'ONU somme la Syrie de respecter l'ultimatum de cessez-le-feu -
10. April: Seit 5 Uhr MEZ, dem geplanten Beginn der Waffenruhe in Syrien und nicht abgezogenen schweren Waffen wird befürchtet, daß das Assad-Regime auch diesen Friedensplan brechen wird -
10 April: Syria ceasefire plan prospects grow dim -
10. April: Türkeis Ministerpräsident Erdogan verurteilt die Schüsse auf Flüchtlinge an der türkisch-syrischen Grenze als 'klare Grenzverletzung' durch Syrien -
11 avril: Les combats se poursuivent en Syrie malgré l'ultimatum -
11 April: Envoy Kofi Annan tells the UN Security Council that military operations in Syria are continuing against civilian targets -
11. April: Der UN Sicherheitsrat fordert Syrien dazu auf, sich an die für Donnerstag gesetzte Frist einer vollständigen Waffenruhe zu halten -
11 April: Assad regime says it will comply with truce deadline tomorrow -
13 April: A draft UN resolution has outlined plans to send 'in days' an advance mission of 20 to 30 unarmed observers to Syria to monitor compliance with peace plan -
13 April: Syrian opposition calls for protests in test of fragile truce -
13 April: Several people have been shot dead during protests in Syria as the UN considers deploying monitors to oversee a peace plan -
14. April: Erstmals hat sich der Uno-Sicherheitsrat auf eine Resolution zur Syrien-Krise geeinigt - erste Beobachter sollen ab sofort die brüchige Waffenruhe überwachen -
15 April: Assad's forces pound Homs -
15 April: UN observers set for Syria mission amid shaky ceasefire -
17 April: UN calls for 'restraint' as assault on Homs continues -
18 April: Syria urged once again to implement peace plan -
18 April: UN admits tough task as Syria toll mounts -
19 April: The UN secretary-general says Syria has failed to comply with its obligation under a peace plan to pull troops and heavy weapons out of urban areas -
20. April: USA fordern schärfere Sanktionen gegen Syrien -
20 April: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says situation in Syria is 'highly precarious' -
20 April: Syria unrest mars UN truce amid mass protests -
22 April: UN Security Council approves up to 300 Syria observers -
23 avril: Nouvelles violences meurtrières, l'ONU poursuit sa mission -
24 April: Syrian troops 'kill dozens' in Hama -
25 April: Briefing the Security Council Kofi Annan says violence 'still unacceptable' -
26 April: France warns that it may push for a UN resolution allowing the use of force in Syria - it wants UN monitors to deploy within a fortnight as the peace plan was 'strongly compromised' -
26 April: The Syrian government is 'in contravention' of an internationally agreed peace plan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says -
27 April: Damascus 'suicide bombing' kills at least 10 people and wounds 20 others -
29 April: Only Syrians can end violence, new UN mission head Robert Mood says
May 2012: 1 May: Deadly blasts rock Syrian city of Idlib -
1. Mai: Gefechte und Gewalt halten auch drei Wochen nach der erklärten Waffenruhe an - zehn Zivilisten kommen bei einem Raketenangriff von Assads Armee in der Provinz Idlib in Syrien ums Leben -
2 May: Syrian army guilty of 'war crimes', Human Rights Watch says> - 4. Mai: Massenproteste in syrischen Städten und tödliche Gewalt gegen Demonstranten jetzt unter den Augen der UN-Mission -
5 mai: Damas et Alep secouées par de nouvelles explosions -
7 May: Polls to elect a 'multi-party parliament' as deadly unrest rages -
8 May: Free Syrian Army 'regrouping' -
8 May: Kofi Annan warns the UN Security Council that his Syria peace plan is perhaps the country’s 'last chance' to avoid civil war -
9 May: A roadside blast hit troops escorting the UN observers in Syria's south as they entered the city of Daraa -
10 mai: Deux attentats ont frappé jeudi la capitale syrienne Damas -
11 May: The US and Europe join Kofi Annan in strongly condemning the deadly bombings in Damascus -
12. Mai: Dreitägige Beratung der syrischen Opposition in Rom über die Führung ihres Dachverbandes -
12 May: Syrian troops shell rebel stronghold of Homs, say activists -
14 May: At least 30 people - including 23 soldiers - have died in heavy overnight clashes in the central Syrian city of Rastan -
15 May: At least 20 people killed by Assad's forces in the north-western town of Khan Sheikhoun during a visit by UN observers -
16 May: Annan urges Syria to stop delaying humanitarian aid -
16. Mai: Syrien erhält weiterhin illegale Waffenlieferungen aus dem Iran -
17. Mai: Uno-Mission bringt kein Ende der Gewalt - Blauhelme verbringen nach Anschlag die Nacht bei der Demokratiebewegung -
18 May: UN chief Ban Ki-moon blames al-Qaeda for Syria bombings -
18 May: Assad's forces fire on protest in northern Syrian city of Aleppo -
19. Mai: Tote und Verletzte durch Selbstmordattentat in der ostsyrischen Stadt Deir al-Sur -
20 May: Hama residents say: 'The army shelled the town and then stormed it', killing 34 people -
22 mai: Près de 40 morts dans les violences dans les régions de Damas, d'Alep et d'Idleb -
22 mai: À Al-Boussaira la police d'Assad tire sur la foule sous les yeux des observateurs de l'ONU -
24 May: Syrian National Council leader Ghalioun resigns, says group divided between Islamist and secular activists -
24 May: Syrian army 'responsible for rights abuses', UN report says -
26 May: Ban Ki-moon says stepped-up government crackdown has fuelled 'violence and abuses' as activists report dozens of deaths in Homs province -
NZZ 26. Mai: Syrische Opposition fordert nach Angriffen auf Hula mit Kanonen und Raketenwerfern und 32 getöteten Kindern Maßnahmen und die Einberufung des UN Sicherheitsrates - auch in anderen Teilen Syriens ungehemmte Brutalität Assads trotz UN Mission -
27 mai: Condamnations internationales du massacre d'Houla, le Koweit veut une réunion arabe d'urgence -
28. Mai: UN Sicherheitsrat verurteilt Massaker in Hula - UN-Beobachter bestätigen Einsatz schwerer Waffen durch syrisches Regime -
28 May: Annan to visit Syria as UN condemns Syria for its use of heavy weaponry in the town of Houla -
28 May: Survivors of the Houla massacre have told the BBC of their shock and fear as regime forces entered their homes and killed their families -
29 May: Annan once more in Damascus to shake bloody hands, calling the Houla massacre 'tragic' - the International Criminal Court must act now -
29 May: Syrian diplomats around the world (Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Gulf states, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA) expelled after the Houla massacre -
29 mai: Le président français Hollande n'exclut pas une intervention armée sous mandat de l'ONU en Syrie -
31. Mai: Rußland stützt Assad weiter - UN Sicherheitsrat ohne gemeinsame Haltung im Syrien-Konflikt
June 2012: 1 June: UN rights body to meet over Syria massacre -
1 juin: L'ONU autorise l'ouverture d'une enquête indépendante sur le massacre de Houla -
2 June: Only Assad’s exit will end violence in Syria, French president Hollande says -
2 June: Arab League says the UN mission in Syria should be given expanded powers to protect people -
3 June: Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria -
4 June: The Free Syrian Army is no longer committed to the nominal ceasefire in Syria, spokesman Sami al-Kurdi has said -
6 June: Assad regime agrees to let in UN humanitarian aid -
7 June: At least 78 killed in Syria's Hama province -
7 June: Hours after another massacre new clashes erupt near Damascus - international community mulls economic sanctions -
8 June: UN envoy Annan, confirming massacres, says to the UN General Assembly that 'first responsibility' to stop violence lies with government - UN observers attacked -
9 juin: Traces de sang et 'odeur de chair brûlée' à 'Al-Koubeir, 17 tués à Deraa -
9 June: Observers visiting al-Qubayr give grim testimony of Wednesday's assault that is reported to have killed at least 70 -
10 June: Syrian cities endure intense shelling -
10 June: Opposition claims that members of the military are defecting in ever increasing numbers -
11 juin: L'opposition syrienne appelle les piliers du régime à la défection -
12 June: Assads forces using Syrian children as human shields, UN report says -
12 juin: Après de nouvelles violences meurtrières en Syrie, les États-Unis craignent un autre massacre -
12 June: UN warns of escalating violence in Syria as Assads forces step up assaults on civilian centres -
12 June: Russia supplying attack helicopters to Syria, says Hillary Clinton -
13 juin: Des voix alaouites s'élèvent contre le régime de Bachar al-Assad -
13 June: Syria in full-scale civil war, says UN peacekeeping chief -
14 juin: Crimes contre l'humanité au nom de la raison d'Etat, affirme une association de défense des droits de l'Homme basée à Londres -
15 juin: Des dizaines de morts hier, aujourd'hui manifestations massives attendues -
15 June: UN observers greeted by 'stench of dead bodies' as they enter former rebel stronghold al Hiffa now overrun by Assad troops -
NZZ 15. Juni: Berichte von Kämpfen in den Provinzen Deir az-Zur, Homs, Aleppo und Damaskus-Land -
17 June: UN mission suspends activities in Syria, saying escalating violence is impeding the monitors' ability to carry out its mandate, as Syrian opposition asks the UN Security Council to protect areas that are targeted by regime forces -
18 June: Bombardment of central city of Homs intensifies one day after UN observers suspend mission -
19 June: US and Russia call for an 'immediate' end to the Syria conflict, as 94 deaths were reported in a worsening artillery pounding of cities -
20 juin: Les observateurs de l'ONU vont rester en Syrie malgré l'escalade de la violence -
20 June: The Red Cross will attempt to evacuate trapped civilians in the embattled Syrian city of Homs -
21 June: Russia must stop providing military supplies to Syria, Arab League's Ahmed Bin Hilli says -
21 juin: 'Les policiers d’Assad m’ont brisé les mains pour m’empêcher de dessiner' -
21 June: Syrian air force pilot seeks asylum in Jordan -
22 juin: Première défection d'un pilote de chasse mais une nouvelle journée sanglante -
23 June: Escalation in tensions between Syria and Turkey after Syria said it shot down Turkish air force jet -
24 juin: La répression s'intensifie - l'ONU préoccupée par les tensions après la chute d'un avion turc abattu par la Syrie -
24 juin: Combats et défections dans des localités de la province d'Alep -
24 June: Turkey blames Syria for shooting down fighter jet in international airspace -
25 juin: L'Otan se réunit mardi pour évoquer la destruction de l'avion turc par la Syrie -
25 June: Several high-ranking Syrian military figures have defected to Turkey, reports in Turkish media say -
26 juin: Aujourd'hui réunion de l'Otan à la demande de la Turquie - le bilan des violences en Syrie s'alourdit sans cesse -
26 June: Deadly clashes in Damascus suburbs -
27 juin: Assad s'est dit déterminé à remporter la 'guerre' contre son peuple, les violences s'intensifient -
27 June: Bloody hands shaking UN gives admission of failure saying (in order to build itself up) that 'human rights violations by Syrian government forces and rebels' spread in Syria and ignoring in 2012, that the democratic Syria is acting in self-defense against a regime without mercy -
28 juin: Des hommes armés attaquent une chaîne de télévision pro-Assad à Damas -
28 June: Two bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in central Damascus, but no casualties are reported -
29 June: Syrian opposition sceptical of new Annan plan for 'unity government' -
NZZ 29. Juni: Berichte über neues Massaker des Regimes nahe Damaskus -
29 June: Helicopter gunships and tanks used to shell areas of Idlib and Damascus amid mass army deployment near Turkish border -
30 juin: Pour la première fois, l'ONU et la Ligue arabe se réunissent samedi autour de la crise syrienne
July 2012: 1 July: World powers on Saturday agreed a plan for a transition in Syria that could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a new unity government -
2 July: Syrian opposition groups reject a UN-brokered peace plan for a political transition in Syria as ambiguous -
3 July: The Syrian government is practising a widespread policy of state-sanctioned torture, according to a report from Human Rights Watch -
3 July: Dozens of Syrian soldiers including top officers defected to neighbouring Turkey on Monday, the Anatolia news agency reported -
4 July: Syria opposition groups back Free Syrian army -
5 juillet: Le chef des observateurs de l'ONU critique l'inaction internationale -
5 July: Wikileaks publishes over two million emails detailing correspondence between Syrian politicians, as well as the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Western powers -
6. Juli: Manaf Tlas (General der Republikanischen Garde) desertiert -
6 July: 'Friends of Syria' meeting in Paris - US, its European and Arab partners will threaten the Assad regime with global sanctions -
7 July: Amid rising violence, Ban Ki-moon tells UN Security Council observers should relocate to capital, focus on politics -
7. Juli: Das syrische Militär hat mehrere Dörfer im Norden Libanons beschossen und drei Menschen getötet und zahlreiche weitere verletzt -
8 July: Syrian forces bombard Aleppo -
8 July: UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan tells French newspaper his peace plan has been unsuccessful, as bombings continue across Syria -
8 July: Free Syrian Army storm back against Assad forces in the town of al-Qusayr -
9 July: Kofi Annan in Damascus to revive Syria peace plan -
9. Juli: Russland kündigt an, keine Waffen mehr an Syrien zu liefern, bis sich die Lage dort beruhigt hat -
11 juillet: Le chef du Conseil national syrien Abdel Basset Sayda à Moscou pour presser la Russie de lâcher Assad -
11 July: Russia sends a large flotilla of 11 warships to Syria in show of support to Assad -
12 juillet: L'ambassadeur de Syrie à Bagdad rejoint les rangs de l'opposition -
12 July: Assad troops shelled and then stormed the village of Treimsa in the central province of Hama, while 38 people were killed across the country -
13 July: Assad troops and a pro-regime militia kill more than 150 in Hama, activists say -
13 July: After the new massacre Syria's opposition urges binding UN resolution 'under Chapter VII (of the UN Charter) which protects the Syrian people' -
14 July: Syrian army attack on Tremseh condemned by world leaders -
14 July: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urges Security Council action over Syria saying inaction will become 'a license for further massacres' -
15 July: UN observers say assault on the village of Tremseh targeted at army defectors and activists -
15 juillet: Les combats 'les plus violents' depuis le début de la révolte à Damas -
16 July: Reports of heavy fighting in Damascus -
16. Juli: Schwere Gefechte in Damaskus dauern an -
17 July: Nawaf Fares, ex-ambassador to Iraq, has told the BBC the regime will not hesitate to use chemical weapons if it is cornered -
17 July: Fightings in several Damascus neighbourhoods as Russia threatens to stall an extension of the UN mission in Syria -
18 July: Diplomatic scrambling ahead of UN Syria vote -
19 July: Blast in Damascus kills Assad's Defence Minister Rajha, Assad's brother-in-law Shawkat and other key officials -
19 July: The US says Assad is losing control of Syria and urges Russia and the international community to get behind a political transition plan -
19 July: Syria fighting rages on across Damascus as UN Security Council is yet to decide on a resolution calling for sanctions against Syrian regime -
20 July: France, US and UK denounce latest move by Assad's allies Russia and China to block UN action to protect the Syrian people -
20 July: Democratic forces seize Turkey and Iraq border posts,
celebrations in Aleppo, fightings in Damascus -
20 July: Syria 'security chief' Bekhtyar dies of blast wounds -
20/21 July: UN council unanimously approves 30-day extension of monitor mission -
20 July: Assad's forces target largest Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Syria -
21 July: Assad's forces backed by tanks and helicopters attack Damascus neighbourhoods -
21 July: Violence and fightings in Aleppo and other towns -
22 July: Heavy clashes in second city of Aleppo -
22 July: Assad forces battle fighters across many cities, as border crossings with Iraq and Turkey fall into opposition control -
23 juillet: La Ligue arabe presse Assad de partir, le régime syrien poursuit sa contre-offensive avec chars et hélicoptères -
24 juillet: Damas menace d'utiliser des armes chimiques en cas d'intervention étrangère -
24 July: Assad troops clash with democratic forces in Damascus and Aleppo, as they try to retake areas out of their control - prison revolts -
24 July: Syria envoy to Cyprus defects, joins opposition -
25 July: Fighter jets and helicopters attack Aleppo as defected general Manaf Tlas appeals to Syrians to 'unite to build a free democratic Syria' -
25 July: Fighting intensifies in Aleppo -
26 July: Attacks of Assad's military using planes and helicopters in Damascus, Aleppo and Homs province, as US confirms defection of Syria's ambassador to UAE -
27. Juli: Palästinenser in Syrien wenden sich gegen Assad -
27 juillet: Alep se prépare à une offensive majeure de l'armée d'Assad -
27 July: US fears Assad planning massacre in Aleppo -
27. Juli: Die Abgeordnete und Vertreterin von Aleppo Ichlas al-Badawi flieht in die Türkei -
27 July: Assad forces said to be massing near Aleppo, as activists report fresh violence across country -
28 July: Assad's army launches Aleppo offensive, watchdog says -
28 July: Assad's troops kill six-year-old fleeing into Jordan -
29 July: Activists say Assad's army pounds opposition-held areas in Aleppo with heavy artillery, as opposition makes gains in countryside -
30 July: Civilians flee Aleppo as assault continues -
31 juillet: L'Armée libre syrienne prend un poste clé pour la suite des opérations à Alep -
31 July: Fighting continues in Aleppo
August 2012: 1 August: Food in short supply as battle for Aleppo rages on -
1 August: Opposition claims control over more than half the city while Assad regime says it is regaining lost ground using airpower -
1 August: The UN mission in Syria says its observers have witnessed Assad's fighter jets opening fire on Aleppo -
2 August: Arab countries push ahead with a UN General Assembly resolution that tells Syrian President Bashar Assad to resign -
2 August: Kofi Annan has resigned as UN-Arab League peace envoy for Syria, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said -
NZZ 2. August: Berichte von erneutem Massaker der Nähe von Damaskus - bei Aleppo setzt die Opposition erstmals erbeutete Panzer ein -
3 August: UN General Assembly set for vote on Syria resolution -
3 août: L'Assemblée générale de l'ONU condamne l'inaction du Conseil de sécurité - adopté par 133 voix sur les 193 pays membres une résolution appelant à une transition politique à Damas -
4 August: Assad forces storm Damascus neighbourhoods, activists say, as the country's largest city, Aleppo, is pounded by artillery and helicopters -
5/6 August: FSA commander says shelling of Salaheddin district in Aleppo is 'the most violent' since July 20 -
6 August: Battle for Syria's main cities intensifies -
7 August: Ongoing violence in Syria as Assad regime 'crumbling' -
6/7 August: Syrian PM Hijab, said to be en route to Qatar, announces 'his defection from the killing and terrorist regime' of Assad and joins the opposition -
7 août: L'émissaire iranien Saïd Jalili en Syrie estime que 'la situation en Syrie n'est pas une crise interne mais un conflit entre l'axe de la résistance dans cette région' contre Israël et les Etat-unis - le peuple syrien, les enfants sont les victimes de cette estimation -
8 August: New satellite images show an increased use of heavy weapons in and around Aleppo, raising urgent concerns over the welfare of residents -
8 August: Assad launches ground assault in Aleppo -
9 August: Syrian opposition says a 'barbaric and savage attack' is underway but denies lose of Aleppo district -
10 August: Free Syria Army admits tactical retreat from southern Salaheddin neighbourhood in Aleppo -
11 August: AFP reports that several people have died after a shell crashed into a bakery as residents queued for bread in the eastern Tariq al-Bab district of Aleppo - residents shouting against France and the US: 'No one is helping us' -
11/12 August: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says in Istanbul that the 'number one goal' of Washington and Ankara is to 'hasten the end of the bloodshed and the Assad regime', that her country is setting up a working group with Turkey to plan for worst-case scenarios and that imposing no-fly zones is one of the measures being discussed -
13 August: Syrian opposition claims downing of government warplane -
14 August: Opposition fighters produce footage of a man they claim is the captured pilot of a warplane that crashed in Deir Ezzor -
15 August: Speaking from exile in Amman Syria's former PM Riyad Hijab says that Assad 'no longer controls more than 30 percent' of the country -
NZZ 15. August: Die Opposition meldet aus verschiedenen Gebieten Syriens neue Gefechte, auch in der Hauptstadt Damaskus -
16 August: UN expert panel blames Assad’s forces and his shabiha fighters for Houla massacre, war crimes and crimes against humanity on Syrian civilians -
16 August: Dozens of people, including children, reported killed by air strikes on rebel-held Azaz town some 45km north of Aleppo -
17 August: UN to close Syria observer mission - plans to set up a smaller political office to monitor events -
17 August: Syria activists 'find 60 bodies in Damascus suburb' -
17 August: Syria battles rage on as the UN chooses the new UN-Arab League envoy Brahimi -
18 August: Assad forces pound rebel hubs in Aleppo and battle opposition fighters around Damascus -
19 August: Fighting rages for control of Aleppo airport -
19. August: Im befreiten Azaz wächst die Angst vor Asads Bombardierungen - Forderungen nach Flugverbotszone -
20 August: Eid in Syria marred by fighting -
20. August: Türkei fordert UN-Schutzzonen für Flüchtlinge in Syrien -
21 August: Deputy prime minister moots Assad departure -
22 August: Heavy fighting as opposition claims Aleppo gains and deadly clashes spill over into Lebanon -
23 août: L'armée d'Assad lance une offensive d'envergure contre la propre capitale -
24 août: L'armée d'Assad progresse à Alep - le régime d'Assad prêt à coopérer avec le nouvel émissaire de l'ONU -
24 août: La France évoque l'hypothèse d'une zone d’exclusion aérienne en Syrie -
26/27 August: Assad regime accused of 'massacre' in Daraya -
28 August: Clashes intensify around Syrian capital as Assad's air attacks on suburbs leave at least 60 Syrians dead - Helicopter downed -
28 août: Hollande parle d'une 'intervention directe' en Syrie évoquant notamment une intervention en cas d'utilisation d'armes chimiques -
29 August: Deadly car bomb hits funeral in the Jaramana suburb of Damascus - reports of shelling around Damascus and fighting in the northern province of Idlib -
30 August: An emergency meeting of foreign ministers of the UN Security Council member-countries is set to discuss the deteriorating situation in Syria -
30 August: Syrian opposition downs fighter jet in Idlib province -
Human Rights Watch 30 August: Assad regime attacking bread lines -
30 août: L'opposition syrienne réclame de nouveau une zone d'exclusion aérienne -
31 August: Turkey urges the UN Security Council to create refugee camps in Syria as France and UK say all options open on Syria including a military-enforced no-fly zone
September 2012: 1 September: Turkey says that UN agreement is necessary to set up safe havens in Syria to stem an exodus of refugees as fierce fighting rages in the north and protesters demand the end of the regime -
1 September: Opposition hits back at Assad's air power -
2 September: Fighting intensifies in neighbourhoods of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs as new UN envoy says change is 'unavoidable' -
3 September: Twin blasts near Damascus military compound -
3 September: Gulf states criticise Assad regime for deploying heavy weapons against its civilians, as over 100 people were killed in raids, bombings and air strikes -
more than 20 people killed when Assad regime shelled and stormed al-Fan in the province of Hama -
3 September: More than 25 people have been killed by an air strike in al-Bab, Aleppo province -
5 September: The UN says more than 100.000 people fled their country in August -
5 September: Assad troops 'bombard Aleppo districts' -
6 September: Arab foreign ministers denounce 'crimes against humanity' in Syria, calling on the government to stop the violence immediately -
6 September: Assad forces bombard south Damascus, killing at least 20 people in Yarmouk, home to tens of thousands of Palestinians -
NZZ 7. September: Erneut Dutzende von Leichen in entdeckt, in Samalka, einem östlichen Vorort von Damaskus -
8 September: Motorcycle bomb in Damascus kills five soldiers - a second blast near the information ministry -
8 September: A regime plane destroys the main drinking water supply of Aleppo - water shortage as fighting rages -
9 September: Assad's strikes on Aleppo kill dozens -
10 September: Bombs hit Syrian army compounds in Aleppo -
12 September: Intense fighting rages in Syrian cities -
15 September: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 132 people killed in Syria on Friday, 100 of them civilians as new 'peace envoy' Lakhdar Brahimi shakes hands with Bashar al-Assad in Damascus -
17 September: Assad continues shelling and murdering in northern Syria as Iran's 'Revolutionary Guard' says it has high-level advisers in Lebanon and Syria, proving the activities of alleged foreign terrorists -
19 septembre: Violents combats à Alep - Lakhdar Brahimi a visité le camp de réfugiés de Zaatari en Jordanie, où quelque 200 personnes en colère ont jeté des pierres sur son convoi -
19 September: London-based rights group accuses Syrian forces of 'relentless attacks' -
20. September: Iran unterstützt laut Geheimdienstbericht Assad Regime in grossem Stil mit Waffen und Soldaten -
20. September: Seit Beginn der Woche Hunderte von Toten - Luftangriff auf Tankstelle in Ain Issa nahe der türkischen Grenze mit Dutzenden Tote - abstürzender Militärhelikopter nahe Damaskus - die UN entdecken einen 'vollwertigen Bürgerkrieg' -
21 September: At least 54 Syrians killed in air raid on fuel station near Ain Issa in country's north, while army shells Yarmouk camp housing Palestinians -
23 September: Free Syrian Army says jet brought down near Atarib as it announces it is moving its command centre from Turkey to Syria -
25 September: Syria child trauma 'appalling',
a new report by British charity Save the Children says -
25 September: Damascus bombing targets military base -
26 septembre: Deux explosions mercredi matin près du bâtiment de l'état major à Damas -
27 September: Assad's military headquarter in Damascus attacked -
27 September: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says, more than 300 people killed in a single day in Syria -
29 September: Fierce fighting reported in Syria's Aleppo -
30 September: Aleppo's old city burns as battles rage
October 2012: 1 October: A suicide car bomb has exploded in the Kurdish city of Qamishli killing four in the first such attack in Syria's Kurdish region -
2 October: Shelling and air raids kill dozens of Syrian civilians, including children, while fighting continues in Aleppo -
3 October: Refugees and residents of al-Raqqa plead with Syrian fighters -
5 October: UN security council overcomes divisions approving a statement condemning 'in the strongest terms' Syria's shelling of a Turkish town that killed five people -
5 October: Free Syrian Army downed a helicopter gunship over the town of Saqba in the Eastern Ghuta area -
5 October: Flare-up comes as Turkish PM issues fresh warning to Syria amid reports of bombardment of Homs by Assad's forces -
6 October: Turkey has fired into Syria for a fourth day after a Syrian mortar landed near a Turkish village in Hatay province -
6 October: Assad's army pounds Homs, opposition seizes border village Khirbat al-Joz -
7 October: Turkish artillery responds to Syrian mortar fire for a fifth day after a mortar landed in Akcakale -
8 October: Car bomb hits police station in Syria capital -
8 October: Heavy bombardment of Idlib, Homs and other provinces reported as Turkey and Syria exchange fire for sixth straight day -
8 October: For a sixth straight day Turkey's military struck back at Assad's military positions after a shell landed in a Turkish border area -
9 October: Syrian opposition bombs Air Force Intelligence complex in a suburb of Damascus -
9 October: Deployment of more Turkish fighter jets to Syrian border comes amid reports of fierce fighting in Idlib province as rebels try to take control of strategic town -
10 October: Opposition fighters have reportedly seized Maarat al-Numan, a key town on the highway to Aleppo -
10 October: Opposition fighters say that they are close to capturing strategic Idlib city, and making another push for Aleppo -
11 October: The capture of Maaret al-Numan a major breathrough for the opposition forces -
12 October: Thursday one of the deadliest days of fighting with at least 210 people killed across Syria -
12 October: Opposition fighters have taken the The al-Taaneh air defence base from government forces near the city of Aleppo -
13 octobre: L'opposition est parvenue à abattre un avion de combat de l'armée en périphérie ouest d'Alep -
13 October: Opposition fighters say they have captured 256 members of Assad's armed forces in the province of Idlib -
14 October: Assad regime bans Turkey civilian flights over Syrian territory after Turkish interception of a Syrian passenger jet -
14 October: Assad forces have dropped Russian-made cluster bombs over civilian areas in the past week as they battle to reverse rebel gains on a strategic highway, according to Human Rights Watch -
Human Rights Watch 14 October: New evidence Assad dropped cluster bombs -
16 October: Assad warplanes have unleashed a series of airstrikes on opposition strongholds in Idlib and Aleppo provinces, despite ceasefire request by UN-Arab league envoy -
17 October: Syrian students who faced beatings and worse for opposing Assad's regime taking to the front lines in Aleppo with almost no military training -
18 October: Human rights groups in Syria say at least 28.000 people have disappeared after being abducted by Assad forces -
18/19 October: Assad's fighter jets blasted the opposition-held town of Maaret al-Numan,
destroying residential buildings and a mosque where many women and children were taking refuge,
and killing at least 44 people -
20 October: Lebanese opposition politicians blame President Assad for bombing that kills senior security official Wissam al-Hassan and seven others in Beirut -
21 October: A bomb has exploded outside a police station in the Old City of Damascus, killing 13 people and wounding many others as Brahimi holds talks with Assad -
23 October: Assad forces killed at least 20 people when they shelled a bakery in a neighbourhood in Aleppo -
25 October: Eid truce awaits Assad's response -
25 October: Syrians in Aleppo endure daily bombardment -
25 October: Assad's forces fired heavy tank and rocket barrages at a Damascus suburb on Thursday, killing five people -
26 October: An uneasy calm follows a night of heavy fighting across Syria as a fragile four-day truce came into effect, activists report -
27 October: 61 people killed in Syria as truce collapses in several areas -
27 October: Assad's airstrikes leave Eid truce in tatters -
29 October: Assad's air force bombs cities, residential areas in the northwest province of Idlib and Damascus suburbs -
30 October: Assad's warplanes bombed opposition positions on the outskirts of Homs to try to break a siege of an army base,
as Qatar accuses Assad of waging 'war of extermination' and Brahimi seeks China's support -
30 October: Assad's air force general Mahmoud al-Khalidi killed in central Damascus -
31 octobre: Damas a été la cible, pour la première fois depuis le début du conflit il y a 19 mois, d'un raid d'un chasseur-bombardier contre un quartier d'opposition -
31 October: Deadly blast in Damascus as fighting rages
November 2012: 1 November: Opposition forces kill at least 28 Assad soldiers in attacks on three checkpoints on main road from Damascus to Aleppo -
2 November: Assad's warplanes have launched airstrikes in the north of the country, leaving scores of people dead -
3 November: Operation 'to liberate Taftanaz airbase' on the eve of crucial meeting in Qatar to decide future of opposition -
4 November: Syrian opposition meets for conference in Qatari capital to reorganise a unified political and military front -
4 novembre: L'opposition syrienne prend le contrôle d'un important champ pétrolierà à al-Ward dans la province de Deir Ezzor -
6 November: Almost 200 people killed across Syria as the main opposition bloc, meeting in Qatar, agrees to broaden its structure -
8 November: Syrian opposition attacks Assad strongholds in Damascus -
9 November: Still meeting in Qatar opposition says progress has been made towards forming a new coalition -
10 November: The SNC's 41-member general secretariat, itself newly elected, chose George Sabra, who garnered 28 votes,
for a six-month term to lead the SNC -
11 November: Creation of umbrella group 'Syrian National Coalition' in Doha announced amid reports of deadly explosions in Deraa and warplanes targeting Damascus suburb -
11 November: Assad forces bombard the Ras al-Ain area on the border with Turkey days after the town fell to opposition -
11/12 November: Opposition groups meeting in Doha elects cleric Ahmed al-Khatib to head the newly formed National Coalition of Forces of the Syrian Revolution and Opposition as violence continues inside the country -
13 November: New coalition gains recognition as air raids batter border towns and Israeli tanks fire into Syria for a second day -
14 November: Fierce battles and Assad's army shelling in and around Damascus kill at least 41 people, mostly civilians, as warplanes launch more air raids on Ras al-Ain on the Turkish border -
14 November: Opposition takes control over a military post near Syria's northeastern border with Turkey -
15 November: Turkey sees new coalition as legitimate representative of people, while rebels make advances -
18 November: Opposition forces claim to have captured an airport used as a military base in Deir al-Zor province near Iraqi border -
20 November: Commanders in Aleppo voice their support to Syrian National Coalition but call for greater representation in it -
21 November: Syria opposition appeals for massive aid to prevent the country's economy from collapsing -
22 November: Opposition fighters overrun army base in Deir Az-Zor, further weakening government's control in a strategic region bordering Iraq -
23 November: Shelling of Damascus districts reported as Iran's parliamentary speaker holds talks with officials in the capital -
25 novembre: Bombardements sur des localités proches de Damas -
26 November: Activists in Syria say a government jet has dropped a cluster bomb on a playground, leaving 10 children dead -
26 November: Assad's warplanes have bombed an opposition headquarters near the Turkish border, missing their target but sending hundreds of Syrians fleeing across the frontier -
27 November: Opposition fighters say they used ground-to-air missile for the first time to down an aircraft bombing the country's northwest as UN Valerie Amos accused Assad forces of firing bombs near the border to prevent people from fleeing -
28 November: At least 20 people have been killed and many injured by two bomb explosions in Jaramana district of Damascus, activists say -
29/30 November: Nationwide internet outage and disruption of some mobile phone services as the road to the airport in Damascus has been closed and flights cancelled amid reports of fierce clashes -
30 November: Fighting continues near Damascus airport
December 2012: 1 December: UN secretary-general decries escalating crisis in Syria -
1 December: After a two-day blackout, communications working again in several cities -
3 décembre: Bombardements d'Assad sur les quartiers sud de Damas et sa banlieue -
7 December: Assad forces shell rebel-controlled areas, as fighting rages in towns around Damascus and near the city's airport -
7 décembre: La guerre fait rage aux abords de Damas -
8 December: Fighting continues around Damascus -
8 December: The FSA says they are fighting corruption within but they blame the government for the people's misery -
9 December: Opposition forces in Aleppo claim they are being undermined by informants in their midst -
11 December: Opposition fighters enter Sheikh Suleiman base near city of Aleppo after weeks of fighting -
12 décembre: Les Etats-Unis reconnaissaient la Coalition de l'opposition syrienne -
13 décembre: Plusieurs attentats à Damas, trois explosions ont notamment visé le ministère de l'Intérieur -
13 December: Assad's forces have fired Scud-style ballistic missiles against opposition in recent days -
13 December: Syrian government 'losing control', Russian envoy says -
15 December: Opposition fighters say they took control of the Syrian army infantry school outside strategic northern city of Aleppo after nearly three weeks of fighting -
16 December: Activists report government air attacks on area in capital inhabited by Palestinian refugees and displaced Syrians -
17 December: Assad's forces surround Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus day after air raid killed eight people there -
18 décembre: Le vice-président prend ses distances avec le régime -
19 December: Civilians flee Yarmouk camp as opposition and Palestinian fighters backing Assad's regime continue to clash in capital -
21/22 December: Assad's army continues to fire Scud missiles against opposition,
according to activists and Nato -
24 December: Assad airstrike kills dozens of Syrians waiting to buy bread at bakery in Halfaya in the province of Hama -
25 December: Opposition fighters capture Harem town near Turkish border after weeks of siege and heavy fighting -
26 December: Local journalist Abu Yezen al-Hamoui, who was working with Al Jazeera, shot dead by sniper in Hama province -
26 December: Military police chief general al-Shallal defects to opposition, saying army turned into 'murderous gangs' -
26 December: At least 20 people, including eight children, have been killed after Assad army tanks shelled a village in the northern province of al-Raqqa -
28 December: Assad's planes pound capital and outlying zones, as anti-regime rallies erupt across country and two air force generals defect crossing the Turkish border -
30 December: Fierce fighting in the district of the city of Homs -
31 December: Nearly 90 percent of those who have died in Syria's 21-month conflict were killed in 2012, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says -
31 December: Dozens of tortured bodies found in Damascus -
31 December: Defected Syrian journalists tell of regime pressure
January 2013:
1/2 January: After Assad's aerial bombardments on New Year's Day fierce fighting in the districts of Damascus and Aleppo, forcing the international airport in Aleppo to stop all flights -
2/3 January: Dozens of people have been killed by an air strike on a petrol station in the outskirts of the Syrian capital -
3 January: More than 60.000 people have died in the Syrian uprising and civil war,
the United Nations says -
4 January: At least nine people were killed and many wounded by a car bomb at a petrol station in the Barzeh al-Balad district of Damascus -
4 January: Assad's ground and air forces bombarded opposition strongholds on the outskirts of Damascus and other areas around the country on Friday -
11 January: Syrian opposition fighters have overrun Taftanaz airbase, the largest in northern Syria, after several days of fierce combat -
13 janvier: Neuf civils, dont des enfants, tués par des bombardements près de Damas -
15 janvier: Au moins 80 personnes ont été tuées dans une double explosion qui a secoué mardi l'université d'Alep -
15 January: A lack of paediatric medicine and equipment in Syria means children there are dying from preventable illnesses -
18 January: More than 100 people were shot, stabbed or possibly burned to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says -
18 January: Assad's warplanes and troops pursued a countrywide offensive, bombing opposition held areas and clashing with armed groups -
18 January: A sniper has shot dead Al Jazeera freelance reporter Mohamed Al-Massalma, who was an activist in the revolt against Bashar al-Assad before joining Al Jazeera, in the southern province of Deraa -
19 January: A Syrian pilot ordered to bomb civilians areas in the Ghotta region with his Russian-made MiG warplane, defects and uses jet to bomb army positions -
20 January: Assad's troops battled rebels in several areas outside Damascus while warplanes bombed opposition-held areas around the capital -
20 January: As the bombardment of Syria continues, opposition activists say Assad's forces are now using a new kind of silent missile -
21 January: A suicide bomber targeting Syrian pro-government forces has killed many people in the central province of Hama -
23 January: Key Syrian ally Russia began evacuating its citizens as the civil war continues in the capital Damascus with intense fighting around the international airport -
29 January: Dozens with gunshot wounds to their head and hands bound found executed in Syria's Aleppo -
29 January: Syrian opposition captured a vital bridge across the Euphrates river in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor
February 2013: 2 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib said Friday the international community must not be a bystander to the tragedy of the Syrian people -
4 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib urges Assad to take a clear stance on his initiative for dialogue, adding that it was aimed at ending the bloodshed and to 'help the regime leave peacefully' -
4 February: Assad's warplanes launched a deadly raid on the outskirts of the opposition-held town of Douma northeast of Damascus, killing seven civilians, among them six children, a monitoring group says - Assad's jets also blasted the opposition-held town of Talbisseh in the province of Homs, as well as Kafraya southwest of the provincial capital, and in the northern province of Raqa, a three-year-old child and his 17-year-old brother were killed in army shelling on the town of Tabaqa -
6 February: Assad's army launched a fierce assault in the Damascus region, shelling opposition neighbourhoods and sealing main entrances to the capital while two suicide car bombings killed almost 20 members of Assad's forces in the ancient city of Palmyra -
7 février: La banlieue de Damas a connu les bombardements les plus violents depuis des mois quand l'appel au dialogue avec le régime d'Assad divise l'opposition syrienne -
7 February: Among the killed Syrians are five civilians, three of them women, as opposition strongholds around Damascus were rocked by fighting and heavy shelling by Assad's forces launching a major offensive -
9 février: Les combats font rage aux porte de Damas entre les rebelles qui tentent de s'emparer de quartiers de la capitale et les forces d'Assad -
11 February: Syrian opposition launched fierce assaults on government troops in several parts of the country,
making advances in country's east -
11 February: Opposition has captured Syria's biggest hydro-electric Euphrates dam in eastern Raqqa province and battled army tank units near the centre of Damascus, activists say -
12 February: Opposition fighters have seized al-Jarrah airport in Aleppo and captured warplanes -
14 February: Opposition fighters seize control of oil field in Hasaka province and shoot down military warplanes as fighting intensifies in northwestern province -
15 février: Combats près des aéroports d'Alep pendant que l'opposition a réaffirmé son refus de négocier avec Assad et les piliers de son régime -
16 February: Intense clashes between opposition fighters and Assad's army near the country's second-largest airport killed around 150 people in recent days, anti-regime activists said -
17 February: Opposition fighters say they overran military base in Sfeira town near Aleppo international airport, amid reports of more fighting -
22 February: At least 53 people, most of them civilians, have been killed and 237 others injured in a powerful car bomb near the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus -
23 February: Rockets struck eastern districts of Aleppo on Friday, killing at least 29 people and trapping a family of 10 in the ruins of their home -
23 February: Syrian National Coalition pulls out of Friends of Syria meeting in Rome and schedules talks in Russia and the United States over 'shameful' international silence on Aleppo and to protest the lack of international condemnation of the 'crimes committed against the Syrian people' -
24 February: Syrian opposition used captured tanks to launch a fresh offensive on a police academy near Aleppo, sparking clashes with Assad's troops over the strategic facility -
25 February: Witnesses report Damascus suburb shelled by brutal military explosive designed to decimate urban areas -
26 February: Rights group says Assad's military fired at least four ballistic missiles into the embattled northern city of Aleppo over the past week, killing more than 140 people, including 70 children -
26 February: Syrian Opposition Coalition agrees to attend Rome summit after US Secretary of State John Kerry called Moaz Khatib 'to encourage him to come to Rome'
March 2013: 1 mars: L'opposition syrienne a accusé les forces du régime d'Assad d'avoir massacré cette semaine 72 personnes et brûlé leurs corps dans un village près d'Alep -
3 mars: Au terme d'une sanglante bataille, l'opposition syrienne prend le contrôle d'une école de police près d'Alep -
4 mars: L'opposition syrienne est sur le point de remporter pour la première fois la capitale d'une province, Raqa, située dans le nord du pays -
6 March: Assad's warplanes bombarded the north-eastern provincial capital of Raqqa for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people -
10 March: In Salqin, in northwest Idlib province, opposition controls the town, but the regime is still paying the people's wages -
10 March 2013: At least 20 bodies of young men shot by security forces were found on Sunday in a small waterway running through the contested city of Aleppo, activists say -
13 March: During Syria's two-year conflict at least two million children have suffered malnutrition, disease, severe trauma and are directly targeted by Assad's soldiers, rights group finds -
15 mars: Deux ans après la révolte, la Syrie dévastée par une guerre sans fin -
15 mars: Alors que la révolte syrienne entre ce vendredi dans sa troisième année, la France et le Royaume-Uni indiquent vouloir armer l'opposition -
15 March: Assad's air force launched new air strikes on Friday on oppositon bastions near Damascus and in Homs province warplanes targeted the city of Houla, killing at least six people among them one child, as clashes raged in flashpoints across the country -
17. März 2013: Assad setzt zunehmend Streubomben ein -
17 March: A brigadier general and about 20 soldiers defected from Assad's army in another sign that the strength of Assad's armed forces is diminishing -
17 March: Opposition forces say they took over intelligence compound in the country's south near Israeli-occupied Golan Heights -
17 mars: L'opposition syrienne réunie à Istanbul pour se choisir un Premier ministre -
19 March: Communications executive Ghassan Hitto appointed by Syrian National Coalition to be prime minister of opposition-held areas -
19 March: A generation 'traumatized' in Syria, expert witnesses say -
22 March: Damascus mosque suicide attack, condemned by the Syrian National Coalition, kills at least 42 people,
including a senior pro-government Sunni imam -
23 March: Syrian opposition seized a major air defense base in a strategic region of southern Syria near the Jordanian border -
24 March: Just days after Syria’s opposition appointed interim PM Ghassan Hitto SNC leader al-Khatib resigns -
24 mars: Des alaouites dénoncent le régime d'Assad -
25 March: National Coalition rejects Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib's decision to step down -
27 March: In an Aleppo district, dismal life after 'Scuds' -
27 March: Assad's warplanes launched two strikes on Damascus neighbourhoods, as opposition seized three army posts near the ceasefire line with Israel -
28 March: Mortar shells slammed into a cafeteria at Damascus University on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20, according to Assad's media -
29/30 March: Opposition fighters seize important town of Dael on a main highway between Damascus and the south in Daraa province
April 2013: 1 April 2013: The month of March was the deadliest in Syria's two-year conflict, monitoring group says -
5 April: Syrian opposition fighters seized the Umm al-Mayathin military checkpoint on a key highway from Damascus to the border with Jordan -
6 April: Nine children were among at least 15 people killed in an air strike on a majority Kurdish district in the Syrian city of Aleppo -
7 avril: Au moins 15 civils, parmi lesquels trois femmes et un enfant, ont été tués dimanche dans des bombardements à l'est de Damas -
9 avril: Plus de 15 morts dans un attentat suicide en plein coeur de Damas -
11 avril: Les raids aériens d'Assad contre les civils ont fait des milliers de morts, a dit Human Rights Watch dans un rapport -
12 April: At least seven people were killed in fierce regime shelling of the eastern Damascus district of Jubar, a monitoring group said, as warplanes also bombarded rebel enclaves near the capital -
13 April: Britain has proof of chemical weapons use in Syria from an area close to Damascus -
15 April: An Assad warplane bombed a Kurdish village killing 11 civilians, mostly women and children, in the oil-producing province of Hasaka in northeastern Syria -
17 April: Rocket fire killed at least 12 people including women and children, as Assad's warplanes attacked opposition enclaves near central Qusayr -
18 avril: 6,8 millions de personnes ont besoin d'aide humanitaire, a indiqué la responsable du bureau OCHA Valérie Amos -
21 April: Syrian opposition chief Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib quits over world inaction -
21 April: Assad's forces kill 85 Syrians including of women and children in Damascus suburb,
according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -
22 avril: George Sabra nommé président par interim de l'opposition -
23 April: Kidnapped Orthodox bishops released in Syria -
25 April: The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque in Aleppo collapsed as opposition and Assad troops fought pitched battles in the streets around it -
25 avril: Londres et Washington de plus en plus convaincus que le régime syrien a utilisé des armes chimiques -
28 April: An alleged Scud missile was fired into the residential area of Tal Rifaat in northern Syria, killing at least four civilians, two of them children -
28 April: Syrian opposition forces fought intense battles with Assad's troops on Sunday to try to seize control of three military air bases in the country's north and curtail the regime's use of air power -
30 April: A blast rocked the central Damascus district of Marjeh killing at least nine people
June 2013: 2/3 juin: Selon l'OSDH, un attentat à la voiture piégée devant un commissariat du quartier de Jobar, à Damas, a tué au moins huit membres des forces de sécurité et fait plusieurs blessés,
au moment où l'armée d'Assad bombardait Qousseir -
3/4 June: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a missile attack on Kfar Hamra near Aleppo kills 26 people including six women and eight children,
as warplanes pound Qusayra and the regime offensive to retake the town enters its third week -
4 June: Hundreds of wounded Syrians trapped by Qusair siege -
5 June: Assad regime claims 'full control' of Qusair region -
6 June: Syrian opposition fighters have taken over the Quneitra crossing on Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights -
6 June: Assad's army recaptures Golan crossing -
8 June: Car bomb explodes in central Syrian city of Homs -
9 June: Assad's army killed at least 100 people who fled the town of Qusair after it was captured by army and Hezbollah -
11 June: Suicide bombers killed at least 14 people in Damascus, as Assad's army attacks Syria's north and western countries discuss to support the opposition -
13 June: The death toll in Syria reached at least 93,000 at the end of April, but the true number of victims from Assad's crimes now in its third year may be much higher, the UN says -
13 June: Mortars fired at Damascus airport, delay three flights -
14 June: Fighting intensifies in Aleppo as Assad's army attacks the neighborhood of Sakhour -
14 June: 'We want anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons,' the SNC says after Obama administration announced it will arm opposition and discusses no-fly zones -
15 June: Assad's army bombarded resistance positions in Damascus and its surroundings on Saturday with air raids and artillery fire -
15 June: More than 70 Syrian military officers, including six generals and 22 colonels, have deserted Assad's army in the past 36 hours and have crossed the border into Turkey -
17 June: Explosion hits military airport in Damascus reported, killing or wounding around 20 members of Assad's forces -
19 June: After a statement of G8 leaders the SNC says it will fight on to topple Assad, and that any political solution to the conflict must lead to the fall of the regime -
21 juin: A deux jours d'une réunion samedi à Doha de 11 pays soutenant l'opposition, l'Armée syrienne libre a réclamé des missiles anti-aériens et antichars et une zone d'exclusion aérienne, pour protéger les zones civiles après l'intensification des opérations de l'armée aidée par le Hezbollah libanais -
21 juin: L'armée d'Assad bombarde le quartier de Qaboun de Damas -
24 June: Syrian opposition fighters battle Assad's forces in and around the northern city of Aleppo -
26 June: More than 100,000 killed in Syrian war,
SyriaHR says -
27 June: Suicide blast near church in Damascus kills four -
27 June: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy -
28 June: Syrian opposition fighters advancing from the Jordanian border seized a strategic army position in the southern city of Daraa as fighting raged in the surrounding province
July 2013: 1 July: Arab states of the Gulf on Monday urged the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to prevent a 'massacre' in Syria's central city of Homs, the target of a fierce offensive by regime troops -
1 juillet: Explosion d'une voiture piégée à Damas -
4 July: Homs puts Syrian political solution 'at risk' -
5 July: Homs onslaught heightens as Russia refuses to agree a call by the the UN Security Council for humanitarian access -
6 July: Series of blasts heard overnight near Assad arms depot in northern Syria -
8 juillet: Deux jours après la nomination d'Ahmad Assi Jarba à la tête de la Coalition nationale syrienne, démission du Premier ministre Ghassan Hitto sans avoir pu former de gouvernement d'opposition -
9 juillet: Assad a écarté tous les dirigeants de son parti, le Baas, dont le vice-président critique Farouk al-Chareh -
10 juillet: L'opposition veut une trêve à Homs pour cause de Ramadan -
12 July: Militants linked to al Qaeda in Syria killed Free Syrian Army commander, FSA spokesman says -
14 July: Shelling killed at least 13 people on Sunday in the Damascus district of Qaboon -
15 July: Shelling and air raids by Assad forces against a string of villages in the province of Idlib killed at least 29 people on Sunday -
21 July: Assad forces shelled the town of Ariha in the northwestern province of Idlib on Sunday killing at least 13 people -
21 July: At least thirteen members of the same family, mostly women and children, have been killed by Assad forces in a second massacre in Bayda near the coastal city of Banias -
22 July: Assad forces kill 49 opposition fighters near Damascus -
22 July: Syria's opposition fighters seized the strategic town of Khan al-Assal, situated in province of Aleppo -
24 July: ICRC condemns Syria regime blocking aid to Homs -
26 juillet: Plus de 150 combattants du régime d'Assad ont été tués dans des affrontements récents à l'issue desquels les forces d'opposition se sont emparés de Khan al-Assal -
28. Juli: Anwar aus Aleppo hoffte lange auf Hilfe aus dem Westen, doch weil die nicht kam, hat er sich einer Islamistengruppe angeschlossen -
29 juillet: Manquant d’armes, les combattants de la démocratie, qui tenaient le quartier de Khaldiyé de Homs depuis près de deux ans, n'ont pas fait le poids face à l'armée d'Assad avec ses chars d'assaut russes et aidée par le Hezbollah libanais - le secteur est tombé -
30 July: The prominent Syrian Kurdish politician and Assad opponent Isa Huso killed in a car bomb attack in Qamishli, near the Turkish border, officials say
August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack -
22 August: Syrian opposition accuses Assad regime of chemical attack outside Damascus,
confirmed by videos, witness accounts and testimonies by emergency medics -
22 August: Syrian eyewitness accounts of chemical weapons attack in Damascus -
24 August: Initial Western intelligence finds Assad forces used chemical weapons -
25 August: Medecins Sans Frontieres says around 3,600 patients displaying 'neurotoxic symptoms' had flooded into three Syrian hospitals on the day of the attacks, and 355 of them died -
25 August: Hama province governor killed in a car bombing on Sunday -
26 August: Assad regime resumes bombardment of chemical attack site, US says -
26 August: Opposition forces took control of Khanasir, a town that sits on the government supply route in northern Syria -
28 August: Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack', information passed to US by Israeli Defence Forces's 8200 unit, former official says -
28 August: US intelligence intercepted a panicked phone call between Assad army officials shortly after the chemical weapons attack on civilians near Damascus on August 21, according to the magazine Foreign Policy -
30 August: At least ten teenagers have been killed by an incendiary bomb dropped by a fighter jet on a school playground in northern Syria -
30 August: Secretary of State John Kerry said there is 'clear' and 'compelling' evidence that the Assad regime used poison gas against its citizens, adding that more than 1,400 people were killed, including more than 400 children -
31 August: The Syrian Coalition says that it seeks not war but the necessary conditions to pursue the challenging process of reconciliation, reconstruction, and democratization, and that after 29 months of inaction the international community has an obligation to stop the Syrian regime from its use of excessive and indiscriminate violence against the Syrian people
September 2013: 1 September: More than 110,000 people dead in Syria conflict,
the SyriaHR says -
1 September: Sarin gas used in Damascus attack, US says -
1 September: Assad forces on Sunday launched air raids on opposition targets near Damascus after its positions came under attack, the SyriaHR says, reporting dozens of people killed in unrest across the country -
4 September: The Syrian opposition fears a fresh chemical attack by Assad's regime, after three convoys believed to be filled with chemical weapons were spotted -
4/5 September: A Hezbollah official has said Bashar al-Assad ordered poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21, according to German spy agency -
5 September: Pentagon may take charge of arming Syrian opposition, US officials say -
6 September: US ambassador to the UN Samantha Power challenges Russia for its obstruction in preventing the Security Council from taking a firmer hand in Syria’s Civil War, even after the chemical weapons attack on August 21st -
9 September: In a TV-interview Free Syrian Army chief Selim Idriss accuses Assad regime and Russia of deceit, after Assad regime welcomed a Russian proposal to hand over its chemical weapons -
10 September: Syrian Coalition says crimes against humanity cannot be absolved through political concessions -
11 septembre: Un raid aérien de l'armée d'Assad sur un hôpital de fortune installé dans la province d'Alep a tué au moins 11 personnes -
12 September: 'We ask that the international community not be content with withdrawing chemical weapons, which are a criminal instrument, but to hold the perpetrator accountable and prosecute him at the International Criminal Court,' Salim Idriss says -
12 September: The Syrian National Coalition holds the international community responsible for the persistence of Assad's killing of civilians through their silence -
14 September: Announcing that UN experts will give overwhelming confirmation that chemical weapons were used in the August 21 attack at Ghouta, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says that Assad has committed 'many crimes against humanity' and must face accountability as part of any political solution -
15 September: Syrian National Coalition names Ahmad Toameh as interim prime minister and tasks him with forming a government to administer the regions of Syria that are under opposition control -
16 September: Syrian opposition agrees to include more Kurds -
17 September: Syria opposition urges UN Chapter VII resolution allowing use of force -
19 September: Roadside bombs targeting a convoy of minibuses near the village of Jabburin killed nine people -
20 septembre: Le vice-Premier ministre d'Assad évoque la possibilité d'un cessez-le-feu -
20 September: Christian hostel helped by Syria's opposition -
20 September: Syrian Coalition calls on UN Security Council to disarm Assad and stop the conflict in Syria -
25 septembre: D'importants groupes rebelles islamistes rompent avec l'opposition -
27 September: After a car bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more on Friday in Rankus, Assad forces began shelling the same area, causing at least one more death -
27 September: The Assad regime, that used chemical weapons, faces insufficient consequences for the use of conventional weapons to kill civilians on a daily basis, the SNC says -
29 September: Assad warplanes bombed a high school in the city of Raqqa in northern Syria, killing at least 12 people, most of them students
October 2013: 3 October: Syria opposition fighters try to end infighting near Turkish border -
6 October: Syrian National Coalition calls on the international community to protect civilians and secure humanitarian corridors -
7 October: As the Assad regime wins foreign praise for starting to destroy its deadly and used chemical arsenal, the opposition activist in Damascus Susan Ahmad says the world is merely giving Bashar al-Assad time to kill more people with conventional weapons -
8 October: Hampered by a chronic lack of weapons, Syrian opposition fighters are relying on arms fabricated in makeshift workshops -
10 October: Assad air raids on opposition positions in the northern Aleppo and southern Daraa provinces killed 30 people on Thursday, including civilians -
11 October: Syrian Coalition condemns all human rights violations committed by armed groups, after HRW issued a report detailing recent human rights abuses committed in the rural Latakia governorate -
13 October: Seven aid workers from the ICRC were kidnapped after gunmen stopped their convoy near the town of Saraqeb in northern Syria -
15 October: A car bomb killed dozens of people in the rebel-held northwestern town of Darkush, including children and a woman, as suspected jihadists freed four out of seven ICRC kidnapped aid workers -
16 octobre: Au moins 21 personnes, dont quatre enfants, ont été tuées mercredi matin tôt dans une puissante explosion dans la province de Deraa -
19 October: After at least three of Damascus's suburbs have been besieged by Assad's forces for several months, the US urges to allow immediate aid convoys to starving civilians -
19 October: Dozens of deaths reported in the province of Aleppo, including 12 Kurds killed by regime shelling in the town of Tal-Aran -
19 october: Snipers appear to be targeting pregnant women, British surgeon David Nott said Saturday after returning from the conflict zone -
20 October: Syrian opposition fighters blew up an army checkpoint outside Damascus -
21 October: An Open Letter from the People of Muadamiyah -
22 October: Syria rebel group says regime freed no detainees despite deal -
22 October: Assad's air force strikes opposition forces near Damascus and Aleppo -
26 October: Kurds rout Syria jihadists on Iraq border -
30 octobre: Le vice-Premier ministre du régime Qadri Jamil écarté par Assad
December 2013: 6 décembre: Au moins 17 civils, dont des enfants, ont été tués par les forces du régime dans un abri de Nabak, une ville au nord de Damas que l'armée tente de reprendre -
11 décembre: Les forces du régime d'Assad bombardaient violemment la périphérie de Yabroud au nord de Damas -
16 December: Assad's aircraft dropped barrels packed with explosives on opposition-held areas of Aleppo on Sunday, levelling buildings, incinerating cars and killing at least 37 people including 16 children -
19 December: Al-Qaida-linked group accused of torture and summary killings in areas of Syria it controls -
19 December: Syrian activists and other citizens have vanished into secret detention as part of a 'widespread campaign of terror against the civilian population' by the Damascus government, UN investigators say -
21 décembre: Un citoyen-journaliste tué lors de combats à Alep -
22 December: A car bombing on Sunday in the central Syrian province of Homs killed seven people, five of them schoolchildren -
22 December: Half a million wounded in Syria's war, the Red Cross says -
22 December: Assad airstrikes targeting an opposition neighborhood in Aleppo on Sunday kill at least 32 Syrians -
23 décembre: Le pilonnage intensif d'Alep fait plusieurs dizaines de morts -
23 December: Assad's warplanes have killed more than 300 people, including 87 children, in an eight-day bombing campaign against rebel-held parts of Aleppo, SyriaHR says -
26 December: The death toll from the 10-day Assad regime air offensive on Aleppo passes 400, as the EU and Arab League condemn the aerial campaign, as Pope Francis calls for aid access to the war-torn country and as Putin supports Assad -
27 December: Three months after the sarin chemical attack on al-Ghouta, in which some 1,500 people died, Dr Ali Abu Emad recalls the day -
27 December: Five people have died of hunger in besieged Syria camp, NGO says -
28 December: An Assad airstrike hit a crowded vegetable market in Aleppo on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens
January 2014:
1 January: Monitoring group says Syrian death toll passes 130,000 -
1/2 January: A missile attack on a bus in an opposition-held area of Aleppo killed at least 10 people,
and the toll in this missile attack in the Tarik al-Bab neighbourhood of Aleppo, in which an Assad regime tank shell hit a bus, raised to 17 -
2 January: More than 73,000 people, including 22,436 civilians, were killed in Syria in 2013, the bloodiest year yet in the brutal civil war since 2011, NGO says as renewed Assad air strikes in Aleppo killed at least five people, adding that it considers the international community 'a partner in the shedding of the blood of the Syrian people' because it has failed to take serious action to stop the war -
4 janvier: Médecins sans frontières a annoncé que cinq de ses employés ont été 'emmenés par un groupe', dans le nord de la Syrie -
4 January: An alliance of Syrian opposition forces clashes with al Qaeda-linked group in Syria -
5 January: Syrian opposition forces and Assad regime agree truce in the northern Damascus district of Barzeh -
6 January: Syrian opposition forces oust al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists from northern city of Raqqa, freeing more than 50 hostages -
9 January 2014: Russia blocked a British-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Assad regime attacks on the city of Aleppo and the use of missiles and barrel bombs,
that killed hundreds of people -
10 January: At least 482 people reportedly killed in clashes between Syrian opposition and al-Qaeda-linked Islamist State in Iraq and the Levant over the past week -
16 January: Car bomb attacks struck Jarablos, one near the agriculture school, the other near the prison, killing at least 26 people including civilians -
17 January: Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, reportedly killing at least 9 people and wounding many -
20 January: Evidence of 'industrial-scale killing' by Assad's regime spurs call for war crimes charges -
24 January: In Geneva Syrian Coalition's Ahmed Jarba calls for the creation of a transitional government in Syria that does not include Assad -
26 January: In Geneva first face-to-face meetings, in Syria fighting between opposition forces and Assad's army in south Damascus and a series of army air raids including barrel bombs across the country, particularly in northern Aleppo and the suburbs outside of Damascus -
27 January: Assad's regime reportedly allows women and children to leave the besieged old district of Homs city -
30 January: Syrian regime demolished 'deliberately and unlawfully' thousands of homes, Human Rights Watch says -
31 January: At least 1,870 people, including more than 470 civilians, died across Syria during the nine days of the 'Geneva 2' talks
March 2014: 5 March 2014: Chemical weapons used in the Damascus suburb of al-Ghouta on August 21 and in Khan al-Assal near Aleppo in March 2013 appear to come from the stockpiles of the Syrian military, UN human rights investigators say -
10 March: Assad forces 'using starvation as weapon of war', rights group says -
10 March: Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa was killed in a helicopter barrel bomb attack in Aleppo along with 10 other civilians and four opposition members -
10 March: Hezbollah reportedly suffers dramatic losses in fighting in Syria, particularly around the key opposition-held town of Yabroud -
15 March: Syria's civil war enters a fourth year, with at least 146,000 people dead, millions more homeless, cities and historical treasures in ruins, the economy devastated and no end in sight -
16 March: Syrian opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli military support, wanting Israel to enforce a no-fly zone -
16 March: Backed by Hezbollah militants Assad forces take opposition stronghold on Lebanese border -
18 March: Assad fights on thanks to Russia, Iran and Hezbollah -
23 March: As heavy clashes continue for a third day around Kasab, Turkey shoots down Assad plane violating Turkish airspace at Yayladagi, east of the Kasab border crossing -
25 March: Assad regime's forces launch air attack after Syrian opposition forces seize areas around Latakia and come close to Assad's home village
July 2014: 9 July: Assad's air force drops more than 15 barrel bombs in al-Safira square, 25km southeast of Aleppo -
9 July: While Assad's barrel bomb attacks killed two civilians in Tariq al-Bab district and three more in the towns of Azaz and Tal Rifa’at, opposition forces in Aleppo announce that they had killed the commander of the regime’s operations in southern rural of Aleppo during violent clashes in the area -
9 July: 80% of the budget spent on projects inside Syria, interim government says -
9 July: Mortar Barrage on and Around Damascus -
9 July: Syrian opposition needs weapons to counter terrorism of Assad and Isis, coalition says -
9 July: Syria's National Coalition elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president -
14/15 July: Assad's barrel bombs kill six civilians in Bir Qasab, gunfire two more in Al Tal,
four civilians wounded in air strikes on Dael and Inkhil, while Adwan cluster bombs shelling kills one person and injures dozens -
18 July: Renewed Clashes in the Old City of Aleppo -
19 July: Assad's barrel bombs kill seven civilians, wounding 15, in al-Bab Northeast of Aleppo -
21 July: Barrels bombs struck the neighborhood of Qaterji in Aleppo, setting Al Hussein masjid on fire and causing civilian casualties, similar attacks targeted Masaqin Hanano, Bustan al-Basha, Al Ashrafiya, Mare’, Al Zabadani, Al Tadamun,
Assad's artillery shelling of Duma in rural Damascus and air raids on Mleiha and Mazra’a killed and wounded civilians -
21 July: Assad's air Raids on Sarmada in Northern Syria killing a civilian and wounding dozens, air raids also struck the town of Kafrsijna and Hayan, while the town of Bushairya came under artillery shelling -
22 July: Ten civilians were killed and dozens wounded in barrel bomb attacks on the towns of Twinan and Fasda east of Hama, while four more were killed in similar attacks on a market in Lattaminah -
23 July: The death toll from barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo rose to more than 40 people, including women and children, as regime forces renew barrel bomb attacks on Tariq al-Bab, Al Hulluk, Al Sha’ar, the Regiment 46 and Kafr Hamra -
24 July: Two civilians killed in air strikes on Barada Valley rural Damascus, more victims in similar attacks on Douma and on Sarghaiya road -
24 July: Seven civilians, including three children, killed by barrel bomb attacks on Jassem, Dara’a -
25 July: A seven-member family were killed in barrel bomb attacks on Al Bab in rural Aleppo, while four children were killed in similar attacks on Deir hafer -
26 July: The Syrian Revolution’s Statistics Centre says that 464 people died under torture in Assad’s prisons in June 2014 -
27 July: Rebels down a helicopter loaded with barrel bombs in Al Nairab air base near Aleppo as barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held districts continue -
28 July: Barrel bomb attacks killed five civilians in Al Sha’ar district in Aleppo, while dozens were wounded in similar attacks on Al Salihin and Tariq al-Bab -
30 July: Syrian opposition forces pressed on with a fresh advance in the central province of Hama, as they tried to take out its military airport -
30 July: Syria using barrel bombs, defying UN, rights group says -
31 July: 2,378 Syrians killed during Ramadan, including 1,440 people who were killed by regime forces, Syrian network says -
31 July: While barrel bombs struck the outskirts of Al Zabadani, rebels hold off regime attacks in Qalamoun
August 2014: 1 August: At least 17 civilians killed and dozens injured in Assad’s artillery shelling on Douma near Damascus, while regime forces launched an arrest campaign in Rankous in rural Damascus -
2 August: Syrian Coalition demands the release of 150,000 detainees in Assad’s prisons -
4 August: 34 civilians killed in barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held districts of Aleppo since Sunday, while the Syrian Institute of Justice says that 296 civilians were killed in Aleppo and its countryside during July -
4 August: Interim Minister of Health said that 'the Ministry is working on the establishment of an underground hospital in cooperation with the cadres of the Department of Health and the provincial councils' -
4 August: Regime forces carried out artillery shelling on Duma near Damascus, killing and injuring a number of civilians,
as five civilians reportedly killed in air raids on the town of Taiyanna in rural Deir Ezzor -
5 August: Activists said that at last 54 civilians were killed and dozens injured on Sunday due to Assad's aerial bombardment that targeted different parts in Eastern Ghouta -
8 August: Assad jet fighters target a relief aid convoy in Deir Ezzor while dozens killed in barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo and Idlib -
10 August: At least 13 civilians killed in Aleppo yesterday, including women and children, as Assad regime continues its brutal barrel bomb campaign -
10 August: Opposition forces reportedly advance on Damascus airport -
10 August: First batch of UN relief aid enters Dara’a -
10 August: Syrian Coalition's Maktabi says, that Assad regime abandons its bases in Eastern Syria to ISIS in order to commit more troops to the battle against moderate rebels -
11 August: Civilians reportedly killed in regime's air raids on Azaz, Aleppo -
12 August: Intensified Assad air raids on Mleiha, East Ghouta and ongoing barrel bombs carnage in Aleppo -
13 August: Rebels clashed with regime forces near Aydoun in rural Hama, alongside tank shelling on the villages of Tilool al-Humr, Nizazah and Aydoun and Assad air raids on Al Zwar and Kafr Zeita northwest of Hama -
15 August: Twenty civilians killed in Assad air raid on Deir al-Asafir near Damascus,
two children killed in artillery shelling on Samad in Rural Dara’a -
17 August: Six people killed in barrel bomb attacks on Tafas, Dara’a,
more bombardements on Rastan near Homs,
on Rural Latakia,
and Al Raqqa -
19 August: Three civilians killed in Assad artillery shelling on Douma near Damascus, more deadly barrel bomb attacks and air raids reported
September 2014: 8 September: Children killed, many others injured in Assad air raids on Deir Ezzor and on Sbeikhan and more civilians killed in barrel bomb attacks on Taybet al-Imam, Hama -
10 September: 18 civilians, mostly women and children, killed and dozens injured in air raids on Douma in rural Damascus and four civilians killed and many others injured in air raids on rural Idlib -
11 September: 19 civilians reportedly killed and dozens wounded in Assad's aerial bombardment on eastern rural Aleppo,
the Syrian Interim Government condemns the regime forces’ bombing of Al Taqwa Hospital in the district of Al Hajar al-Aswad in Damascus -
13 September: Death toll of Assad air raids on Douma rises to 70, civilians killed in a rocket attack on Ain Tarma,
in air raids on rural Idlib, in artillery shelling on Baftamoun,
in aerial shelling on Al Bab northeast of Aleppo -
14 September: Nine civilians killed and dozens injured on air raids on the district of Douma, alongside air strikes on Ain Tarma and East Ghouta -
16 September: Aerial shelling on rural Hama displace 6,000 people,
killing seven civilians in rural Deir Ezzor and six children and a woman in rural Latakia -
17 September: 11 civilians killed in a barrel bomb attack on Aleppo and 16 civilians killed and dozens wounded in a barrel bomb attack on Talbeesah north of Homs -
19 September: More attacks and ongoing massacres in Douma by Assad’s air force,
pro-Assad militants committed a new massacre using knives against 13 civilians in Dimo west of Hama, while 22 others were injured, including women and children -
20 September: The death toll resulting from the barrel bomb attacks on a bakery in Al Bab northeast of Aleppo has risen to 51 killed and more than 80 wounded -
21 September: Five civilians killed in barrel bomb attacks on the district of Ard al-Hamra in Aleppo and dozens killed in aerial shelling on rural Idlib -
23 September: Five civilians killed, including three children, and many others wounded in mortar attack on Al Sabeel in Dara’a, barrel bomb attacks on the demilitarized zone in Quneitra -
24 September: 10 civilians killed and 15 others wounded in Assad's air raids in rural Idlib,
10 civilians killed and many more wounded, mostly children and women, in air raids on Hammouriya in East Ghouta -
25 September: The Syrian Coalition condemns the Assad regime’s use of toxic gases in Adra near Damascus, reiterating calls on the international coalition to conduct military strikes against the Assad regime’s strongholds and ISIS alike -
27 September: The USA-led coalition attacking 'Islamic State' in Syria reportedly launched strikes on IS terrorists attacking Kobani near the Turkish border -
28 September: Seven civilians killed and many others wounded in barrel bomb attacks on Rastan north of Homs -
29 September: USA-led raids hit Islamic State in north, east Syria -
29 September: Assad forces reportedly targeted the Takaya Street in Deir Ezzor with the toxic chlorine gas alongside intense deadly artillery shelling on the outskirts of the city and on Juneina,
renewed barrel bomb attacks on Daraya -
29 September: USA-led coalition raids target oil facilities held by Islamic State while Assad's army bombs areas in Aleppo province with barrel bombs and other projectiles and carried out air strikes in Hama
October 2014: 1 October: Intensified shelling on Ayn al-Arab/Kobani by ISIS terrorists, who are besieging the town from three sides while Turkish forces are watching -
2 October: 20 people, including 10 children, reportedly killed and 40 more injured in a double car bomb explosion near a school in Homs -
2 October: Fighting intensifies near Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria as ISIS terrorists advance -
3 October: Turkey will try to stop Kurdish border town of Kobani falling to Islamic State -
3 October: Syrian Kurds plea for help defending Kobani from Isis advance -
4 October: 115 Killed under torture in Assad’s jails in September -
4 October: Syrian Coalition warns of war crimes in Ayn al-Arab/Kobani by 'Islamic State' terrorists, using the same tactics applied by the Assad regime to storm the towns and villages after heavy random bombardment -
4 October: After Turkey promised they will not allow 'Islamic State' terrorists to control Kobani and Kobani's defenders called the Turkish government for weapons and help, YPG commander Hasan says 'until now we have not seen them do anything' -
5 October: 'Islamic State' terrorists have pushed to the edge of Kobani, undeterred by western air strikes, Kobani's Idris Nassan says -
6 October: Kobani's defenders battle for their town, woman defender and mother-of-two Deilar Kanj Khamis blowing herself up at an IS position east of Kobani,
after running out of ammunition, rather than be captured by IS, local sources say -
7 October: Battles reported between 'Islamic State' terrorists and Kurdish defenders in Kobani, with Turkish forces massed and watching on other side -
7 October: Rights group says it has documented 25 massacres committed by Assad regime forces backed by sectarian militias such as Hezbollah and Abou El Fadl Abbas militias against civilians in September -
8 October: Despite terrorists from the Islamic State withdrew from some parts of Kobani overnight after air strikes by a USA-led coalition,
UN envoy says Syria border town Kobani 'about to fall' and urges action -
9/10 October: USA-led forces continue airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists in Kobani -
10 October: As USA officials admit that even intensified airstrikes may not be enough,
IS terrorists reportedly control a third of Kobani and Turkish Kurds can only watch -
11 October: At least 18 civilians reportedly killed and dozens wounded in Assad barrel bomb attacks and rocket shelling on Al Harra in rural Dara’a and approximately 500 civilians, mostly women and children, arrested by regime forces in the village of Sefat north of Aleppo -
11 October: Kurdish fighters in Kobani call for escalation of air strikes against IS terrorists -
12 October: Rights group says, it had documented at least 83 attacks carried by regime forces using cluster munitions between January and September 2014 -
13 October: As Kurdish defenders held off IS terrorists in Kobani,
USA says that Turkey will let coalition forces use its bases -
13/14 October: Syria's Assad air force ramps up strikes in west, taking advantage of USA strikes in the east,
as Turkey denies it gave USA permission to use air base against IS terrorists -
14 October: As Israeli experts say Islamic State may have used chemical weapons on Kurds in Kobani and as Syria conflict destabilizes Turkey, USA-led coalition boosts airstrikes -
16 October: Syrian Coalition calls on international anti-IS forces to direct strikes against regime's targets after new state terrorism attacks -
16 October: USA military supposes it has killed several hundred Islamic State fighters in air strikes in and around Kobani -
17 October: Chemical attack on Jobar buoyed by the world’s silence, Syrian Coalition says -
17 October: Battered from the air around Kobani, Islamic State terrorists retreat and now control only 20 percent of the town, Kurds say -
18 October: USA hails 'encouraging' signs in the defence of Kobane as coalition planes and Iraqi ground forces continue to battle IS terrorists -
18 October: Kobani's Anwar Musalem calls for help for the besieged town facing Islamic State's heavy weaponry -
18/19 October: Kurds fought off a new attempt by Islamic State terrorists to cut off Kobani -
20 October: US military launched more air strikes against IS terrorists and airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending Kobani -
20 October: Kurdish peshmerga support and an increase in the number of air strikes against IS terrorists could tip the battle in their favour, Kobani's defenders say -
21 October: Assad's air force targeting civilians in Douma in East Ghouta -
21 October: Syrian Coalition condemns Islamic State's stoning of a woman in eastern Hama -
22 October: Vast majority of military supplies air dropped near Kobani had reached the Kurdish defenders, despite video showing IS terrorists with a bundle, USA says -
22 October: As USA attacks Islamic State terrorists, Assad regime steps up assaults on opposition forces -
23 October: Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers agree to send much-needed reinforcements to fellow Kurds defending Kobane -
23 October: 22 civilians killed in Assad's air raids on Naseeb and Jiza in rural Dara’a -
24 October: Syrian Network for Human Rights says that it had documented 5,307 civilians shot by snipers of the Assad regime and Hezbollah militias -
24 October: Islamic State terrorist attack on Kobane stalls amid USA air assault -
24/25 October: Kurds fear Isis use of chemical weapon in Kobani, according to officials and a doctor,
as Iraqi officials say Isis used chlorine gas -
25 October: US-led air strikes have helped Kobane's defenders, but they call for more help after holding out against a relentless assault -
26 October: US-led strikes pound militants in Iraq and Syria as Iraqi Kurdish fighters were set to reinforce the defenders of Kobane -
26 October: As Assad forces carry out air raids on Handarat and Bashkwi, killing civilians in aerial bombardment on Al Haidariya, FSA fights against attempts to encircle Aleppo -
26 October: Assad air strikes in the central province of Homs killed at least 25 civilians, 11 of them children, 16 members of a single family were among 18 people killed in raids on Talbisseh -
27 October: Assad forces’ escalating attacks and indiscriminate shelling on Aleppo and its countryside cause mass displacement of the civilian population -
27 October: Assad’s air force steps up barrel bomb attacks on Dara’a alongside aerial shelling and barrel bomb attacks on Sheikh Misqin, Tafas, Kafr Nasij, Muzeireeb, Yadodeh Um al-Maiazen, Al Taybeh and Kahil -
27 October: Defenders of Kobane thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State terrorists to cut off the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy -
28 October: As fighting continues in Kobane, the US-led coalition carries out fresh air strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria -
29 October: Iraqi Kurdish fighters are expected to bring anti-tank and anti-armour weapons when they enter Kobani on Wednesday to aid defenders -
29 October 2014: Many reported dead after Assad army drops barrel bombs on displaced persons camp in the northern province of Idlib -
29 October: Kurds welcome the arrival of fighters from Syria and Iraq, despite fears that the reinforcements are too small to end the siege of Kobane -
31 October: Assad regime used toxic gases in around 50 attacks across Syria, rights group says
December 2014: 1 December: 30 civilians killed and nearly 100 wounded in brutal aerial and artillery shelling on a market in the opposition-held town of Jassim -
3 December 2014: Rights group documents 31 massacres committed by pro-Assad forces in November -
6 December 2014: At the Hague, the USA accused the Syrian regime of continuing to use chemical weapons on civilians as recently as September -
6 December: Repelling an 'Islamic State' attack on an air base, Assad regime forces used chlorine gas against militants, rights group says -
10 December: Three Orient TV’s correspondents Rami al-Assimi, Yousef al-Dous and Salim al-Khalil murdered by Assad regime forces targeting their broadcasting vehicle with a heat-seeking missile in rural Dara’a -
14 December: Again Assad’s air force reportedly fired a rocket loaded with chlorine gas on the district of Jobar in Damascus, causing around 20 cases of suffocation among civilians -
15 December: Rising discontent in pro-regime town of Maysaf -
15 December: Regime forces escalate barrel bomb attacks and artillery shelling on opposition-held areas in Dara’a province -
16 December: Syrian Coalition condemns the Kurdish YPG militiaman's torture and execution of 16-year old Affan Al-Abbosh in Al Hasaka province -
17 December: More than 230 bodies of people believed to have been killed by 'Islamic State' found in a mass grave in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor province -
18 December 2014: Infuriated by losses in Idlib, the Assad regime has escalated indiscriminate shelling in rural Idlib and near Homs -
18 December 2014: Assad’s air force targets two hospitals in the provinces of Deir Ezzor and Idlib, killing dozens of people -
19 December: SOHR documented 2973 air strikes by regime warplanes and helicopters since 20 October 2014 targeting areas in Damascus, Dar’aa Aleppo, Idlib, Reef Dimashq, al-Quneitra, Homs, Hama, Der-Ezzor, Lattakia, al-Hasakah -
22 December: Three new mass graves of 'Islamic State' victims discovered in Deir Ezzor -
24 December: An Assad’s warplane targeted a civilian bus near Saraqib in rural Idlib, killing four children and injuring ten more -
25 December: Assad’s air force carried out air raids on the city of Al Raqqa, targeting mosques and schools and killing at least 26 people, including many children -
26 December: At least 45 civilians killed and some 175 wounded when Assad's war planes dropped barrel bombs on residential and industrial areas in the city of al Bab and neighboring Qabaseen, northeast of Aleppo -
27 December: 'Islamic State' loses ground in Syria's Kobane, where Kurdish fighters reportedly now control more than 60 per cent of territory -
28 December: Hundreds of prisoners held in Homs on hunger strike in protest over the horrible treatment from regime's forces -
28 December: Assad's forces targeted Al Waer neighborhood near Homs with incendiary shells, believed to contain napalm, injuring dozens of civilians and causing severe burns -
31 December: Regime forces launch new chlorine gas attack on Jobar
January 2015: 1 January 2015: Syrian Coalition's Nora Al-Ameer observes hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners in Homs -
1 January: Protests in Amouda over the PYD’s recruiting of minor girls -
2 January: Syria's war killed 76,021 people in 2014, 33,278 of them civilians, SOHR says -
6 January: Kurdish fighters capture a vital zone in Kobani after fierce clashes against 'Islamic State' militants backed by USA-led airstrikes -
7 January: Assad regime used chlorine gas in helicopter attacks, OPCW chemical weapons experts say -
15 January: 'Islamic State' loses grip on Kobani amid USA-led air strikes and Kurdish resistance -
16 January: Residents of besieged Yarmouk camp send a distress call to the international community to take action -
17 January: Kurds battle Assad's forces in Syria after regime soldiers tried to take control in Hassakeh and shelled Kurdish-majority areas -
19 January: A military cargo plane crashed near Idlib, killing 35 soldiers belonging to Assad's army -
21/22 January 2015: At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded by an Assad regime air raid on the main livestock market in Khansaa as several thousand Bedouin Arab traders and customers had gathered -
23 January: An Assad air strike on Hamoria, a district in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, killed more than 30 people on Friday -
25 January: Assad’s air force has stepped up aerial bombardment of areas in Hammouriya in East Ghouta, Douma, in rural Homs, and in rural Aleppo -
26 January: Kurdish fighters oust ISIS from Kobani -
29 January: Kobane in ruins after 'Islamic State' terrorists driven out by Kurds, battles against terrorists in villages around Kobane continue, but border still closed by Turkey
February 2015: 1 February: Kurds battle 'Islamic State' terrorists around Kobane -
2 February: 'Destruction is everywhere', TV report from inside Kobane says -
3 February: Syrian Coalition condemns ongoing massacres committed by Assad’s air force in Dara’a and Idlib killing dozens of civilians and injuring hundreds and slams the international community's silence -
6 February: Assad's air force strikes kill at least 70 people in an opposition district outside Damascus following rocket attack -
6 February: Assad's air force targeted residential areas especially in Douma, Kafr Batna, Arbin, Ain Tarma, Sakba and Zamalka -
6 February: At least 45 civilians, including five children and a paramedic, were killed when an Assad barrel bomb hit a civilian bus in Baedeen district in Aleppo -
8 February: Kurds regain control on 35% of Kobane villages -
9 February: Assad's warplanes strike areas in Idlib, regime forces shell areas near al-Salat al-Sena’eyyi, coinsided with aerial bombardment on the same area and shell areas in the town of Allatamneh -
10 February 2015: Russian-backed Assad regime kills over 100 civilians and injures hundreds in a series of brutal attacks on the district of Douma -
15 February: Intense clashes in southern Syria killed scores of regime and insurgent fighters in the past week after Assad's army and allied Hezbollah launched a large-scale offensive -
16 February: Kurdish forces backed by Syrian insurgent groups edge into 'Islamic State' stronghold Raqqa province -
17 February: Assad's army backed by allied militia captured several villages north of Aleppo blocking a main supply route amid heavy fighting -
17 February: Opposition forces regained control of the village Ratyan and large parts of the villages of Harditin and Bashkwi north of Aleppo in a counter attack against Assad terrorists -
19 February: YPG and its allies advance and take control on more than 240 villages in Kobane and also al-Raqqa countryside -
19 February: Opposition forces took full control of the town of Ratyan north of Aleppo after violent clashes with regime forces backed by Iranian and Hezbollah militiamen -
20 February: Assad's warplanes carry out raids on villages in the countryside of Hama and the eastern countryside of Aleppo -
21 February: Ten children were among at least 48 people killed in Rityan village north of Aleppo this week, when regime forces executed six families of opposition fighters -
21 February: Two women and two children in an area of Aleppo were among the latest people killed by Assad barrel bombs of more than 7,000 killed across Syria since the UN Security Council passed a resolution in 2014 ordering an end to sieges and indiscriminate use of weapons in populated areas -
23 February: Captive regime officers killed and injured in Assad air raids on Douma that targeted their place of detention -
23 February: Assad’s air force has dropped over 5,150 barrel bombs between October 2012 and February 2015, killing about 12,000 people, half of them women and children, according to rights group -
24 February: Assad’s air force escalated air raids on towns and villages in rural Hama, dropping barrel bombs on Lataminah, Kafr Zeita, Zakat and on the outskirts of Morek, also shelling rural Homs and targeting Um Sharshouh and Ezzedine -
25 February: 'Islamic State' terrorists abduct at least 150 Christians in northeastern Syria -
25 February: Rights group says it has identified nearly 1,500 sites where the Assad regime has carried out indiscriminate air attacks over the past year using barrel bombs and other weapons that have killed or injured thousands of people, the 'key cause of the displacement crisis in Syria' -
26 February: The use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime against Eastern Ghouta in 2013 is resulting in increasing cases of genetically malformed babies, according to doctors -
28 February: Kurdish fighters rout 'Islamic State' terrorists from Tel Hamees in Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh region on border of Turkey and Iraq backed by Assyrian Christians and coalition airstrikes
March 2015: 3 March: 74 people, including students and a child, killed under torture in Assad’s prisons in February 2015, rights group says -
3 March: Assad’s helicopters reportedly dropped barrel bombs on the towns of Kafr Zeita, Khan Shaykhun, Al Najiya and Ibtaa’, killing and injuring dozens of civilians -
4 March: Aleppo’s explosion and the clashes followed it leave 35 deaths, and the shells launched by rebel battalions kill 9 people -
5 March: Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on places around the airbase of Abo al- Dohur, clashes erupt in Damascus and Rif Dimashq -
5 March: Two men from the same family died under torture inside Assad's jails, three women died due to aerial bombardment in the east of Homs -
5 March: The Assad regime is indiscriminately attacking the al-Waer neighborhood in Homs, with devastating consequences for the civilian population, rights group says -
7 March: 179 people, including 68 civilians, reportedly killed on 5 March 2015 -
7 March: Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on Daraa and his forces re-shell areas in Rif Dimashq -
7 March: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the countryside of Lattakia -
8 March: Assad regime forces carry out raids on villages in Hama, and seize a village in Homs -
8 March 2015: Assad airstrikes kill at least 10 people near Damascus -
9 March: Two fighters killed in Homs and two men from Daraa al- Balad tortured to death inside the regime jails after they were arrested about 3 years ago -
10 March: Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on areas in Idlib, and deadly shells and barrel bombs land on areas in and around the city of Aleppo -
10 March: Assad's warplanes and helicopters carry out more raids on the countryside of Hama using barrel bombs -
10 March: Kurdish forces reportedly re-captured more villages in the countryside of Kobani -
11 March: Three men from al-Zabadani tortured to death inside the regime jails and barrel bombs dropped on the town of Sayda -
12 March: Twelve men reportedly killed inside the regime jails in Daraa, and shelling of places in Salma area and clashes in Lattakia kill 50 people -
13 March: At least four civilians killed by a rocket launched by the regime forces north of Aleppo as fighting in and around Aleppo continues -
14 March 2015: Nearly 13,000 Syrians tortured to death by Assad regime, 20,000 vanished since beginning of war, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights -
14 March: Assad's helicopters dropped explosive barrels on areas in Damascus and Dar’a countrysides,
several civilians including children killed and tortured in Damascus and Duma,
more than hundred raids carried out by the regime’s aircrafts and helicopters across Syria -
15 March: 20 civilians including children killed in a new massacre by regime warplanes in Duma -
17 March: Activists accuse the regime forces of using toxic gas in Idlib, after barrel bombs dropped on areas of Aleppo and Idlib -
17 March: Assad regime forces shell areas in the city of Homs, while the warplanes strike areas in the countryside of Hama -
17 March: Eight men tortured to death in Daraa, while Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on residential areas -
17 March: Footage obtained from social media shows victims of gas attacks by Assad’s air force in Syria being treated in hospital in Idlib province -
19 March: At least 20 people including women from Daraa and Damascus killed inside Assad's jails as his helicopters drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Rif Dimashq Provinces -
19 March: Regime air strikes on Idlib countryside and on areas in Hama province -
20 March: At least 15 people were killed and dozens were wounded when Assad regime air forces targeted the mosque of Muntif during Friday prayers in the northern province of Idlib -
21 March: 45 people including children and women killed by al-Hasakah explosions during a celebration for the Kurdish people -
21 March: Regime’s bombardment kills 3 civilians in Otaya town,
warplanes carried out 2 raids on areas of Idlib Province killing 5 women and a child and wounding dozens,
seven people from Deir Ezzor and Daraa tortured to death inside regime jails -
21 March: Regime forces shell Bostan al-Qaser, killing a man, his wife and their 2 children while other people were wounded -
22 March: Regime forces shell areas in the northern countryside of Lattakia and near Homs -
23 March: Some Syrian insurgent groups 'mimicking ruthlessness' of Assad's army, rights group says -
23 March: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on places in the town of Ma’raba -
23 March: Assad regime forces reportedly behead two fighters and publish photos of the two heads on WhatsApp -
23 March: SOHR documented the death of 1953 people including women and children since the beginning of the USA led coalition air strikes on Syria last September -
23 March: Assad's warplanes attacked areas in Al-Hasakah Province, warplanes carried out a raid on the public square in Deir Ezzor and helicopters dropped barrel bombs on places in the Covered Market, al-Baath Bridge and the Municipal Complex in the city of Deir Ezzor -
23 March: Assad's warplanes strike areas in the countryside of Hama -
23 March: Assad's barrel bombs kill five brothers children in the town of Tafas in Daraa -
24 March: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the towns of Smad, Samlin and on the city of Bosra al-Sham -
25 March: Regime forces shelled places in Deir Ezzor -
25 March: Regime forces shelled places in the east of Hama, warplanes carried out a raid and helicopters dropped barrel bombs in the eastern countryside of Hama -
25 March: Assad regime's helicopters drop barrel bombs loaded with chlorine gas on Binnish near Idlib, and conducted seven attacks using chlorine gas in less than 20 days since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2209 without any prosecution by UN Security Council, Syrian Coalition says -
26 March: Assad regime troops shell areas in Homs Province, his helicopters drop barrel bombs on areas in Hama,
in Aleppo Province,
and in Daraa Province -
26 March: Four children and two women killed by Assad air raids in Deir Ezzor Province -
26/27 March: Assad regime forces attacked Sarmin in rural Idlib with poisonous chlorine gas again,
committed a massacre in Dara’a where at least 15 civilians were killed and dozens wounded in aerial shelling and dropped more barrel bombs in Daraa Province -
27 March: Assad regime and Iranian militias are launching retaliatory air strikes against civilians in Dara’a and Rural Damascus in response to liberation of Bosra al-Sham and their advance on Idlib, Syrian Coalition says -
28 March: Assad regime forces shelled areas in the neighborhoods of Jobar and al- Hajar al-Aswad in Damascus Province -
28 March 2015: Assad regime forces bombarded areas and his helicopters dropped barrel bombs on places in Daraa Province -
29 March: Assad regime forces reportedly executed nine people before retreating from Idlib, followed by an execution of an Islamist faction in Saraqeb -
29 March: Regime forces and warplanes struck areas in the Al-Hasakah Province, the Deir Ezzor Province,
and shelled areas in the Daraa province and the Damascus Province -
29 March: Three men tortured to death inside regime jails in Daraa -
30 March: Assad regime troops bombard areas in Rif Dimashq and Daraa and drop barrel bombs on the agriculture lands around Kafar Zita in Hama Province -
30 March: Syrian Coalition welcomes steps taken by rebel factions to form a governing council in recently liberated Idlib, to provide services and to defend civilians -
30 March: A doctor from Der-Ezzor city was tortured to death in a regime prison, Assad's military opens heavy machine gun fire on the Yarmouk refugee camp, regime’s bombardment continues on the Jobar neighborhood and casualties by a shell on an area in old Damascus reported -
31 March: Heavy damage inflicted on Idlib civilian hospital by Assad regime bombing, killing four people, after rebels take the province of Idlib -
31 March: Following the defeat of Assad regime in Idlib by opposition groups, regime forces retaliated in Idlib and Dara’a, killing over 50 civilians by indiscriminate shelling
April 2015: 1 April: Assad regime forces shelled areas in the Damascus Province and the Rif Dimashq Province and dropped barrel bombs -
2 April: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on neighborhoods in Aleppo,
on areas and places in the province of Idlib and in the province of Daraa -
2 April: Regime attacks destroy Idleb's National Hospital -
2 April: Free Syrian Army liberated the Naseeb border crossing with Jordan, thus taking control of the entire border with Jordan in Dara’a province -
3 April 2015: Assad's forces and warplanes carried out raids on places in Deir Ezzor province,
dropped barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province and carried out more raids on places in Idlib province killing at least 6 people, including a woman and 3 children -
4 April 2015: Assad regime forces re-shelled areas in al-Yarmouk Camp amid ongoing clashes between Islamist groups, dropped barrel bombs on places in Daraa and in Hama province and tortured a man to death in Homs province -
4 April: Assad's helicopters drop explosive barrels on areas in Hama, Homs, Idlib and on al- Yarmouk Camp -
5 April: Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo, Idlib on the Yarmouk camp,
and regime forces shell areas in Daraa and Hama -
6 April: Assad's forces shelled places and his warplanes carried out raids on places in Deir Ezzor Province -
6 April: Assad's forces killed at least ten people, including a woman and a child, in Damascus and Rif Dimashq Province -
6 April: Assad's warplanes carried out more raids and his helicopters dropped more barrel bombs in Idlib Province, killing at least eleven people, including children and women -
7 April: Assad's forces shelled areas in Hama Province and dropped more deadly barrel bombs in Idlib Province -
7 April: 24 people killed in Daraa yesterday, while Assad's helicopter drop barrel bombs on al-Yarmouk Camp for the third day respectively -
7 April: Assad's warplanes carry out raids on the towns of Samlin and Kafar Shams, and his helicopters drop barrel bombs in Al-Quneitera Province -
7 April: With his militia driven out of Idlib by rebel fighters, Assad escalates bombing of Idlib -
8 April: At least 104 people including more than 100 civilians have been killed in Idleb nine days after it was liberated from Assad's regime by opposition fighters -
8 April: Assad's warplanes dropped barrel bombs on the city of Ma’arret al-Nu’man, towns of Kafar Najd, Efs, al-Nayrab and villages of Kesnafra, Fayloun and Nehlayya and other places in Idlib province and carried out raids on the villages of al-Msherfah, Abo Hbaylat and Qlib al-Thour in Hama province -
9 April: Assad's warplanes carried out raids in Deir Ezzor province and his helicopters dropped more barrel bombs on areas in al-Yarmouk Camp -
10 April: PLO says against Syrian army drive to regain Damascus refugee camp from IS militants -
10 April: Palestinian factions fighting IS militants in Yarmouk camp -
10 April: Assad regime warplanes and forces shell areas in the city of Deir Ezoor,
in the countryside of Hama,
in the countryside of Daraa and on places of al-Yarmouk Camp -
10 April: Red Cross demands access to besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee in Syria as UN's Ban Ki-moon says Yarmouk is 'beginning to resemble a death camp' -
11 April: Assad's forces and warplanes carried out raids on areas in Al-Raqqa and Deir Ezzor Province, killing civilians,
in Rif Dimashq and Daraa Province, dropping barrel bombs on Om al-Walad and the Eastern Karak -
11 April: Assad's helicopters and aircrafts strike areas in Idlib and Homs -
12 April 2015: Syrians seeking cover after a regime air strike on Aleppo on Saturday -
12 April 2015: Assad regime forces shell areas in Damascus, Daraa and al-Quneitera,
in Al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor Province -
13 April: Assad regime forces shelled areas in Hama and Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq and Daraa province and at least one civilian died due to the regime shelling on the Yarmouk camp -
13 April: Assad's warplanes attacked more areas in Aleppo province,
as SOHR documented more than 1429 air strikes by regime warplanes and helicopters in Syria since the 1t of April, killing 184 civilians including children and women and wounding no less than 1300 others -
14 April: Assad regime aircrafts and helicopters attack towns and villages in Idlib province and kill another four children and three women in Aleppo province -
15 April 2015: Assad's warplanes and helicopters strike areas in Aleppo province,
kill more people in Idlib province,
carry out new raids in Rif Dimashq province,
kill civilians and children in Daraa province,
kill more people including women and children in Daraa and Idlib province,
and drop more barrel bombs on al-Yarmouk Camp -
16 April: Assad regime forces shell places in Rif Dimashq province, killing 10 people including five children,
drop more barrel bombs on the countryside of Hama and shell areas in Homs and Lattakia province,
kill four men, including a man and his children in Aleppo,
shell places in Daraa province,
and kill eight civilians, including four children due to dropping barrel bombs in Idlib province -
17 April: Assad regime forces shell the countryside of Hama, open fire on places in Homs province,
attack places in Alleramoun area in the north of Aleppo,
drop more barrel bombs on the city of Idlib and village of Korin,
and shell areas in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor province -
18 April: Assad's forces and helicopters drop deadly explosive barrels on areas in Lattakia and Idlib,
attack places in Al-Hasakah province,
shell places in Hama and Homs province,
drop barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province,
drop barrel bombs on the town of Khan al-Shih in the Western Ghouta,
and drop barrel bombs on the south of Damascus and on the outskirts of al-Yarmouk Camp -
19 April: Assad's forces and helicopters drop barrel bombs on places in the Aleppo province,
drop barrel bombs in the Rif Dimashq province,
his warplanes and helicopters strike places in Idlib province and the only hospital in Saraqeb,
and shell areas in Hama and Homs province -
20 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters drop barrel bombs on places in Hama, Homs, and Lattakia province,
kill more civilians in Daraa province,
drop barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
drop more barrel bombs in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
carry out raids in Deir Ezzor province,
and drop more barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province -
21 April: Assad regime warplanes and barrel bombs kill dozens of civilians in Aleppo and Daraa -
21 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters shell areas and attack places in Al-Hasakah province,
carry out air raids, drop barrel bombs and shell places in Idlib and Lattakia province,
shell places in Rif Dimashq province and in al-Yarmouk Camp,
drop barrel bombs in Hama and Homs province,
drop barrel bombs in Daraa province,
and carry out more raids in Idlib province -
22 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters shell areas and attack places in Aleppo province,
in Hama, Idlib and Tartous province,
in Homs province, torture a man to death in Daraa province and a man from the neighborhood of Dommar, and shell places in Damascus including al-Yarmouk Camp and Rif Dimashq province -
22 April: Assad's helicopters targeted the homes of civilians in downtown Idleb with explosive barrels, leading to the death of six civilians, including four children and a woman, and wounding dozens -
22 April: Iranian general Kajbav killed during clashes with opposition forces in the city of Busra al-Harir -
23 April: Assad's warplanes carried out over 30 raids on neighborhoods in Damascus, Douma and Idleb leaving dozens killed and wounded -
23 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters carry out raids on areas in Deir Ezzor and Al-Hasakah province,
shell places in Aleppo and Rif Dimashq province,
shell places in al-Yarmouk Camp,
carry out raids on places in Idlib province,
shell places in Hama and Homs province and drop barrel bombs on places in Daraa province -
24 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters drop barrel bombs in Idlib province,
and shell places in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province -
24 April: Assad's warplanes carry out at least 40 raids on the countryside of Idlib -
26 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters drop barrel bombs and launch ground-to-ground missiles in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Homs province,
and in Idlib province -
26 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters carry out raids on areas in Idlib province, killing or wounding at least 60 civilians by heavy aerial bombardment on Darkoush town,
killing more civilians by aerial bombardment on al-Laj village -
27 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters carry out more raids on areas in Idlib province, killing civilians,
and kill more civilians, including many children and women, due to aerial attacks on 3 villages in the countryside of Idlib amid silence of the international community -
27 April: Assad regime's air force killed more than 30 people in air strikes on Sunday in the city of Jisr al-Shughour, in a brutal retaliation to defeats -
28 April: Assad's air strikes kill at least 10 civilians, including two women and children, in the northeastern town of al-Shadadi, after Kurdish militias recently regained the small tribal town from IS terrorists -
28 April: After two months of siege, causing the death of four children and an elderly person, in response to pro-revolution demonstrations earlier this year, the embattled town of Moadamieh al-Sham near Damascus receives bread -
28 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters drop barrel bombs in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
and kill civilians by aerial bombardement in Der-Ezzor province -
29 April: Syria's political and armed opposition and representatives of elected local councils agreed that there is no solution of Syria's crisis without the toppling of the Assad regime and that 'Assad and his ruling elite should have no role in the transitional phase' -
29 April: Assad's forces, warplanes and helicopters drop barrel bombs on al-Yarmouk Camp, shell places in Rif Dimashq province,
drop barrel bombs on the village of al-Hwayyez in Sahel al-Ghab in the west of Hama and on the villages of Qastoun, al-Hwash and al-Enkawi in the northwest of Hama and torture a man to death in Homs province -
30 April 2015: Assad regime's helicopters reportedly dropped at least 2 barrel bombs containing chlorine on town of Saraqeb, triggering cases of suffocation -
30 April: Assad's barrel bombs destroy sections of Red Cross hospital in the Aleppo neighborhood of al-Sakhour, wounding four people, as his air forces also targeted the neighborhood of Bustan al-Qasr and Tal Refaat in the northern countryside, killing one -
30 April: Assad's military dropped barrel bombs and shelled areas in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo and Idlib province,
and in Hama and Homs province -
30 April/1 May: 44 civilians including children, 25 rebels, 18 Non-Syrian Islamic fighters, 27 Regular forces, 22 NDF, 7 IS , 9 unknown rebels, 3 non-Syrian militants are the victims of Assad's war on 30 April 2015
May 2015: 1 May 2015: Assad's military dropped barrel bombs and shelled areas in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Homs province,
in Al-Hasakah and Al-Raqqa Province province,
and in Aleppo province -
2 May: Assad's military dropped barrel bombs and shelled areas in Idlib province,
in Daraa and Damascus province, dropping more barrel bombs on al-Yarmouk Camp -
2 May: The number of civilians who were killed by the USA led coalition air strikes on Ber Mahli near Seren town northeast of Aleppo has raised to 52 including 7 children and 9 women -
2 May: Over 20 civilians killed by shells and air strikes in Der-Ezzor, Aleppo,
and by barrels bombardment in Hama province -
3 May 2015: Assad regime accused of new chlorine gas attack in Idlib killing at least one child and injuring about 40 people -
3 May: Assad's military dropped barrel bombs and shelled areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
and in Idlib province -
3/4 May: At least seven people were killed, including four children and a school teacher, and dozens were wounded in an Assad barrel bomb attack that targeted the Seif al-Dawla teaching centre in Aleppo -
4 May: Assad's military shelled areas and dropped barrel bombs in Daraa province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province -
4 May: Suicide bomber reportedly detonates in heart of Damascus -
5 May: Assad's military shelled areas and dropped barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Homs province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Idlib province,
and in Daraa province -
5/6 May: Assad's military shells areas and drops more barrel bombs in Hama and Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province -
6 May: Daraa doctors were forced to amputate Ahmed's leg after a barrel bomb hit his home in al-Yadoudah, killing 10 of his family members -
7 May: Assad's military forces shell areas, carry out more than 50 air raids, drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
and mutilate corpses of a fighters by cutting the head -
8 May: Assad forces attack Red Crescent convoy delivering medical aid to a center in Douma, killing one volunteer -
8 May: Assad's military forces shell areas, carry out air raids, drop barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor province,
in Idlib province,
and in Aleppo province -
8 May 2015: 80 people hurt as Assad regime helicopters drop barrel bombs containing chemicals on three villages in Idlib province -
8 May: Assad's military forces carry out air raids in Der-Ezzor province, targeting a clinic area in al-Bolel town killing 3 civilians including a nurse,
drop barrel bombs in the countryside of Idlib,
and in Aleppo province -
9 May: Assad's military forces raid areas of Jesr al-Shughur and al-Taman’a and drop more barrel bombs on Khan Shekhon, Felon and al-Rami in Idlib province -
9 May: Assad's military forces carry out air raids in Rif Dimashq province -
10 May: Assad's military forces carry out more air raids and drop barrel more bombs in Idlib province -
10 May 2015: Assad's military forces carry out more air raids in Aleppo and Al-Hasakah province -
11 May: Assad reportedly placed his top intelligence official under house arrest for allegedly conspiring with the regime’s enemies to carry out a coup -
11 May: Assad's military forces raid areas and drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo and Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama and Homs province,
again and again in al-Yarmouk Camp and torture a Palestinian man to death inside the regime jails of Damascus province -
11 May: Assad's warplanes carry out air raids on the neighborhood of Jobar in Damascus and in Daraa province -
11 May: Assad's aerial bombardment kills and wounds 30 civilians, including at least five children and four women killed,
in al-Qenia in Idlib province -
11 May: Assad's military forces drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province -
12 May: About 5.1 million Syrians are living in areas at high risk from explosive weapons, some of which fail to detonate and so will pose a deadly threat for years to come, aid group Handicap International says -
12 May: Assad regime forces shell and his warplanes attack places in Deir Ezzor province -
12 May: The number of civilians who were killed by a massacre by regime helicopters which dropped an explosive barrel near a garage in Jesr al-haj area in Aleppo city has rose to 28 -
13 May: Assad's military forces drop more barrel bombs in Hama province,
and shell places in Rif Dimashq province -
13 May: The number of civilians who were killed by Assad's explosive barrels dropped on an area near a school in Khelsa town, Zetan and al-Hader towns in Aleppo province, has raised to 27 including eleven children and three women -
14 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop barrel bombs in Aleppo province -
15 May: Assad's military forces carry out air raids in Rif Dimashq province, killing and wounding civilians -
15 May: Assad's warplanes attacked places around the town of Hraytan in north of Aleppo, towns of al-Atareb and Orem al-Kobra in west of Aleppo and al-Kastillo road on north of Aleppo, committed a new massacre in the city of Manbej killing 14 civilians, including four children and two women, and wounding 30 others,
and killed more civilians in Idlib province -
16 May: Scores of civilians were killed or injured yesterday in regime air raids on the town of Manbej northeast of Aleppo, activists say -
16 May: Assad's warplanes killed at least 42 civilians, including 28 women and 11 children, by air strikes on Kafar Awid and Saraqib towns and dropped barrel bombs on Ma’ra al-Nu’man, Ein Laroz and al-Lah in Idlib province -
16 May: Assad's helicopters dropped more barrel bombs on Bashkoy, B’idin and Salah al-Din in Aleppo province and regime forces shell places in Homs province -
17 May: Assad's forces shell places and his warplanes carry out raids in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs and Idlib province, also dropping barrel bombs -
18 May: YPG and allied factions advance again in Kobani and Tal Tamer regions, seizing more villages and areas accompanied by airstrikes on IS terrorists' positions -
18 May: Assad's forces shell and his warplanes attack places in Homs province,
in Idlib province,
and in Rif Dimashq province -
19 May 2015: Assad’s air force reportedly dropped a chlorine-filled barrel bomb on the town of Mishmishan for the third time in a week, resulting in more than 17 suffocation cases among civilians, while 15 civilians were killed by barrel bomb attacks on Jabal al-Zawiya yesterday -
19 May: Assad's military forces drop more barrel bombs, killing two children in Kafar Zita and targeting more places in Hama province,
and carry out raids on places in Idlib province,
as SOHR documents 2053 air raids and barrel bombs carried out and dropped on villages, towns and cities of the province of Idlib since 28 March, resulting in the death of 99 children, 76 women and 226 men and wounding more than 2500 people -
20 May: Assad's helicopters dropped more barrel bombs on villages and towns in Hama province as the number of people who died due to Assad's dropping of a barrel bomb on the neighborhood of al-Qattanah in old Aleppo has risen to seven people from the same family, including three children and two women -
20 May 2015: A footage shows searching for missing under the rubble after dropping a barrel bombs on the neighborhood of al-Qattan in old Aleppo -
20 May 2015: Britain says Syrian video footage exposes Assad's lies on barrel bombs, showing the casual and indiscriminate way in which the regime forces are dropping these horrific weapons out of helicopters onto civilians below -
20 May: Assad's helicopters dropped explosive barrels on the neighborhoods in Deir-ez-Zor province, a single air raid killed eight civilians, including six children and a woman from the same family, in the town of Buamro -
20 May 2015: Over 270,000 cases of permanent disability have been recorded due to Assad's Syrian war, with victims' suffering compounded by international disregard for the Syrian tragedy -
21 May: Islamic State terrorists say in total control of Syria's Palmyra -
22 May: Assad's warplanes carried out 3 raids on places in the village of al-Rami in al-Zaweyi Mountain in Idlib province -
22 May: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the villages og al-Amqiyyi and al-Ankawi in Sahel al Ghab in northwest of Hama -
22 May: Assad's barrel bomb kills family of seven in Aleppo, as regime shelling of Aleppo has killed around 150 people since the start of May -
22 May: Assad's military forces continue to drop barrel bombs, killing eleven civilians including three children in an area in Andan town north of Aleppo -
23 May: The number of people who were killed due to Assad's barrel bombs on places in the neighborhood of al-Hamidiyyi in Deir Ezzor has risen to 16, including four citizens from the same family and six children from another -
24 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop barrel bombs in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Homs and Rif Dimashq province,
in Al-Quneitera province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in the neighborhood of al-Qaboun and again in the al-Yarmouk camp in Damascus province -
25 May 2015: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
in Al-Quneitera and Lattakia province,
in Homs province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib province, targeting some hospital and ambulatory centers in the countryside and dropping barrel bombs,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province, also targeting al-Yarmouk Camp again,
and carry out more raids on places in Erbin, in the town of Ayn Terma in the Eastern Ghouta, on al-Salam Highway near Khan al-Shih camp in the Western Ghouta and in the neighborhood of Jobar -
26 May: Regime air raids kill 15 people in Daraa, Aleppo, as rights groups say that attacks on Aleppo have killed more than 150 people since the start of May -
27 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo and Idlib province,
in Homs province,
in Daraa and Al-Quneitera province,
in Hama and Lattakia province -
27 May: Homs' witnesses see kidnapping and torture of two teenagers and a university student by pro-Assad shabeeha -
27 May: The capture of al-Mabroukah by the Kurdish YPG militia opens the road for its forces to advance towards the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa province -
27 May: Assad regime helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
and regime forces attack the eastern countryside of Homs and kill civilians in Lattakia and Daraa -
28 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
28 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa, Hama and Homs province,
and in Lattakia province -
29 May: Seizing the city of Ariha make the province of Idlib almost entirely out of the regime’s control -
29 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province,
and in Aleppo province -
30 May: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa and Hama province,
in Aleppo and Idlib province,
killing many civilians,
and in Rif Dimashq province -
31 May 2015: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Al-Hasakah and Hama province,
in Idlib province, killing at least 19 civilians in airstrikes on the village of Balyoun in al-Zaweyi Mountain,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province, killing and wounding about 20 civilians in airstrikes on south of Damascus and in dropping barrels on al-Zabadani,
in Homs province,
and in Aleppo province, dropping barrel bombs and killing civilians,
as another regime attack hitting a busy market in al-Bab killed dozens
June 2015: 1 June 2015: The number of victims, who were executed by 'Islamic State' terrorists in Syria since June 2014 has risen to 2618, including 1511 civilians, rights group SOHR says -
1 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Daraa province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Homs and Lattakia province -
2 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
in Al-Hasakah province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Lattakia province,
in Hama province,
in Homs province,
and in Damascus province -
3 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Daraa province,
and in Aleppo and Idlib countrysides, killing many civilians -
4 June: Assad's barrel bomb attacks intensify in Aleppo -
4 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province,
in al-Hasakah province,
and in Daraa and al-Quneitera province -
4 June: Assad regime tortures people to death, his forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
in Daraa and Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib countryside,
in the countryside of Aleppo and Damascus province,
in Hama and Homs province,
in Daraa and Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs province and Idlib province,
in Daraa and Hama province,
in al-Quneitera and Rif Dimashq province,
and in Idlib province -
5 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama and Homs province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Hasakah province,
as rights group SOHR has documented the death of 94 civilians by Assad regime aircrafts and barrel bombs in the last 48 hours, including 20 children and 16 women, while hundreds were wounded -
5 June: Assad still using chemical weapons against Syrians, UK's Julian Brazier and rights group say -
6 June: USA led coalition warplanes targeted the 'Islamic State' with several air strikes near the town of Salok, killing no less than 16 militants -
6 June: Islamic battalions and Jabhat al-Nusra have taken control on the town of Mahambel completely after clashes against regime forces -
6 June: Assad regime warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Idlib province -
7 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in Lattakia province,
and in Idlib province -
8 June: The death of a man, his wife and their five children due to USA led coalition airstrikes on villages near Aleppo rises the number of civilians killed by USA led coalition airstrikes to 148 -
8 June: Assad's barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo nighborhoods of Tariq al-Bab and Jub al-Qubba claim 12 civilian lives -
8 June: Assad's helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
and on different places in Homs province, killing 18 civilians in the town of al-Za’farana in north of Homs -
8 June: The province of Daraa reportedly withstands 320 Assad air raids in past week, 75 barrel bombs a day -
9 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo and Lattakia province,
in Hama province,
in Homs and Idlib province,
in Al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
and in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province -
9 June: Syrian regime air raids on the northern countryside of Homs reportedly killed at least 18 people, including four children
9/10 June 2015 'Brigade 52 offensive' launched in the Daraa Governorate by the Free Syrian Army and allied Islamic Front -
Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army -
10 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Daraa province, as deadly clashes between regime and opposition forces continue,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Al-Quneitra and Damascus province,
in Aleppo province,
and torture a man to death in one of the regime prisons in Deir Ezzor province -
11 June: Assad's helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Daraa province and his warplanes carry out more raids on areas in the Brigade 52 adjacent to al-Hrak town, the captured largest military base for the regime forces in Daraa,
while more civilians are killed in the countryside of Daraa -
11 June: Assad regime forces shell, his helicopters drop more barrel bombs and his warplanes attack places in Rif Demashq and Homs province, killing and wounding civilians,
in Aleppo province,
in Rif Demashq province, as clashes between regime and opposition forces continue,
in Al-Quneitra province,
in Hama and Lattakia province,
in Idlib province,
as allegations of the killing of 20 civilians in Qalb al-Loza village inhabited by Druze emerge -
12 June: Assad's helicopters drop more barrel bombs and his warplanes attack places in Aleppo province and in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province -
13 June: Assad regime forces shell, his warplanes attack places and his helicopters drop more barrel bombs in Aleppo province,
in Hama province,
in Homs and Idlib province,
in Al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Rif Demashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
and again in Daraa province -
14 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places and drop more barrel bombs in Daraa and Homs province,
his warplanes attack places in Aleppo province,
in Idlib province,
in Al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Homs province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
while 'Islamic State' terrorists continue to execute people in Homs province,
but are forced to retreat by YPG and rebel factions southeast of the city of Tal Abyad and north of al-Raqqa countryside -
14 June: Assad regime forces carry out raids and drop more than 34 barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Lattakia province -
15 June: Assad regime forces shell places in Homs province,
in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
his forces carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib and Lattakia province,
his forces carry out raids and shell places in Al-Quneitra, Al-Suwaydaa and Deir Ezzor province,
his forces carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
his forces carry out raids and shell places in Aleppo province,
and in Al- Hasakah province -
16 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama province,
in Al-Quneitra, Homs and Lattakia province,
in Aleppo province and Aleppo city,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus province,
in Rif Dimashq province, while 'Islamic State' terrorists continue to execute people -
16 June: Kurds seize city of Tal Abyad, dealing a major blow to the 'Islamic State' terrorists -
17 June: Syrian opposition forces launch offensive to capture remaining positions held by Assad's military in Quneitra province -
17 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Daraa province, as the number of civilians killed in the massacre committed by the regime warplanes in Eastern Gharya has risen to 18 people, including 14 children and a woman,
in Homs and Idlib province,
in Al-Quneitra and Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus, Rif Dimashq province and on the city of Doma in Eastern Ghouta killing at least 24 people, including 13 women and 5 children -
18 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa and Homs province,
in Hama and in Idlib province -
19 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province, as 'Islamic State' terrorists behead own members,
in Hama province,
in Damascus and in Al-Quneitra province,
in Homs and Idlib province,
and in Aleppo province -
20 June 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
and in Daraa and Lattakia province -
21 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus, Daraa and Hama province,
in Aleppo and Homs province,
in al-Hasaka and Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs and Lattakia province,
in al-Quneitra province,
and again in Aleppo province -
22 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs and Lattakia province,
in al-Quneitra and Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Hasaka, Daraa and Hama province,
in al-Suwaydaa and Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus and again in Rif Dimashq province -
23 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
again in Hama province,
in Homs province,
in Aleppo and Lattakia province,
also dropping a barrel bomb on a mosque in the neighborhood of al-Ansari in Aleppo, killing at least 10 civilians, including 2 children, and wounding more than 20 others including children,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
as YPG and rebel factions enter the city of Ayn Isa after seizing the Brigade 93 in the north of al-Raqqa -
24 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor and Homs province,
in Lattakia province,
in Aleppo and Idlib province,
again in Aleppo and in Daraa province,
and again in Idlib province -
25 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq,
in Idlib province,
in Daraa and Hama province,
in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Suwaydaa province,
and again in al-Suwaydaa and Rif Dimashq province -
25 June: As Turkey denies claims terrorist attackers entered from Turkey, 'Islamic State' terrorists and Kurdish defenders battle again over Syria's Kobani -
26 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra, Lattakia and Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province, where the fighting between rebels and regime forces continues,
in Homs province,
as clashes in Aleppo province continue and at several points in Kobani -
26 June: Islamic State attack on the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka is reported to have displaced 60,000 people, the UN office in Syria says, warning that up to 200,000 people may eventually try to flee -
26 June: Islamic State terrorists' assault on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village has so far killed at least 146 civilians, after the terrorists entered Kobani at the Turkish border on Thursday -
27 June 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs and Lattakia province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in Aleppo and Daraa province -
27 June: Kurdish fighters say they fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobani and killed more than 60 Islamic State terrorists after their suicide attacks -
28 June 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
in Homs and Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra and al-Suwaydaa province -
29 June: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra province,
in Daraa and Homs province,
again in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Lattakia and in Rif Dimashq province -
30 June: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Hama province,
in Homs and Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo and al-Hasakah province,
again in Homs province,
in Idlib province,
again in Daraa province, dropping about 20 barrel bombs,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Homs province,
in Hama and again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Idlib and Daraa province,
again in Aleppo and in Damascus province
July 2015: June–July 2015 Battle of Sarrin, military operation during 2015 in the northeastern Aleppo Governorate, in which the Kurdish YPG and Free Syrian Army forces captured the town of Sarrin and the surrounding region from the Islamic State terrorists -
1 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province, killing and wounding more than 30 civilians,
and in Homs province -
1 July 2015: Syrian Kurds say beat back 'Islamic State' terrorists' attack on border town of Tel Abyad,
as Turkish regime, siding with terrorists, plans to send troops to fight Kurds -
2 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs and Rif Dimashq province,
and in Aleppo province -
3 July: Assad forces mount heavy air strikes against opposition positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo -
3 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
and in Idlib province,
as clashes between YPG supported by rebel forces and USA-led coalition warplanes continue against Islamic State terrorists southwest Tal Abyad town in the northern countryside of Al-Raqqah, amid advancement for YPG and rebel battalions, controlling two villages in southern countryside of Kobani -
4 July: Assad's army and its allied militia Hezbollah launch a major assault on the rebel-held Syrian city of Zabadani -
4 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
as rebel battalions advance in Aleppo area,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs province,
in Hama province,
in Rif Dimashq province and on areas in al-Zabadani city -
5 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province, as clashes continue in several areas in Aleppo city and its countryside,
in Homs and Lattakia province,
in al-Hasakah and al-Raqqah province,
in Hama province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
again on areas in al-Yarmouk camp,
in Daraa and Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra and al-Suwaidaa province,
and in Homs province -
6 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province, as Islamic State terrorists detain civilians in a metal cage for breaking the fast in Ramdan,
in Deir Ezzor province, as Islamic State terrorists execute a 17 years old child for insulting the name of 'Allah',
in Hama and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Aleppo province, as clashes continue in the countryside of Kobani,
in Daraa and again in Hama province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in Idlib and Lattakia province,
again in Rif Dimashq province, as clashes continue in the vicinity of al-Zabadani,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
7 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Lattakia province,
in Daraa and al-Hasakah province,
in Aleppo province,
as clashes continue in Aleppo region,
in Rif Dimashq province,
as clashes continue in the vicinity of al-Zabadani city,
and in Homs province,
as clashes continue around the city of Ayn Isa in al-Raqqa province -
8 July: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
in Homs province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province -
8 July: Facing rebels' resistance and advance Assad regime intensifies aerial bombing and barrel bomb attacks on residential areas in Dara’a and the surrounding villages and towns, Syrian Coalition's Salem al-Meslet says -
8 July: The regime air force carry out more strikes on the city of Aleppo as clashes renew in its countryside -
8 July: More explosive barrels dropped by Assad regime forces on Daraa and its countryside -
10 July 2015: Assad regime airstrikes in Aleppo kill at least 15 people, including six children, as his helicopters target Ibad al-Rhaman mosque in the al-Bab neighborhood and as his barrel bomb attacks also target neighborhoods of Sheikh Kheder and al-Hulk -
11 July 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Homs province,
in Daraa province,
and in Hama province -
11 July 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra, Lattakia and Damascus province, also targeting the south of the capital and al-Yarmouk camp,
in Idlib province,
and in Rif Dimashq province, also targeting the city of al-Zabadani and its vicinity -
11 July: Assad regime committed massacre in Al Harra in rural Dara’a when its air force dropped a barrel bomb on a house killing the entire family of seven members, also killing at least 30 more when helicopters dropped a barrel bomb on a crowded market in Al-Bab northeast of Aleppo -
12 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Hasakah province,
in Aleppo and Idlib province,
in Homs and Rif Dimashq province, as clashes in al-Zabadani continue,
and again in Idlib province -
13 July: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib and Lattakia province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Dimashq province, as a commander for Hezbollah was killed in ongoing clashes in al-Zabadani city,
in Hama province,
in Daraa and al-Quneitra province,
again in Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province, where a man died under torture in the regime forces prisons after being detained for almost 2 years, and again in Lattakia province -
14 July: Assad forces prevent food and supplies from entering western Ghouta city -
14 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus province, targeting also Yarmouk camp,
in Aleppo and in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Hasakah and Homs province,
again in Aleppo province, commiting second massacre during 72 hours in al-Bab city and killing 23 civilians,
in Lattakia province,
in Daraa and in al-Quneitra province,
in Idlib province,
again in al-Hasakah and Rif Dimashq province,
and again in Daraa province -
15 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
and in Rif Dimashq province, dropping more than 26 barrel bombs on areas in al-Zabadani city -
16 July: Assad air strikes kill more than a dozen people including children, wounding dozens, as regime targets northern city of Aleppo with barrel bombs and missiles -
16 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Hasakah province,
in Idlib and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Idlib province,
and in Daraa province -
17 July: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and al-Quneitra province,
in Lattakia province,
in Aleppo province and Aleppo city,
in Homs province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in Daraa province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Aleppo province, killing and wounding more than 13 people due to airstrikes on the cities of Aleppo and al-Bab,
a man from Deir Ezzor city died under torture in the regime forces prisons -
18 July: Death of 5026 people during Ramadan documented in Syria, including 576 civilians, 148 children and 178 women, killed by airstrikes carried out by the regime air force, 31 citizens tortured to death inside regime jails, and including 22 civilians, 9 children and 4 women, killed in airstrikes carried out by USA-led coalition warplanes -
18 July 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa, al-Quneitra,
and in Homs and Lattakia province -
19 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo and again in Idlib province,
and again in Daraa province -
20 July: At least 15 civilians, including six women and five children, lost their lives in Assad barrel bomb attacks on Aleppo since end of Ramadan -
20 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Suwaydaa province,
in Homs province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama province,
again in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Hasakah province,
again in Homs and Lattakia province,
again in Hama and al-Quneitra province,
and again in Daraa and in Rif Dimashq province -
21 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus province and al-Yarmouk camp,
and in Idlib province -
22 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and Hama province -
22 July: Assad regime committed massacres in al-Bureij northeast of Aleppo where 18 civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a barrel bomb attack, and in the neighborhood of Al-Maghayer in Aleppo, where 26 civilians, mostly children and women, were killed -
22 July: Assad regime opens military training course for children in the town of Suqailbya in rural Hama -
23 July: Syrian activists protest the murder of several Syrian refugees by Turkish military while attempting to illegally cross the border -
23 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa and al-Suwaidaa province,
again in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
again in Idlib province,
again in Hama province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Damascus province,
again in Aleppo province,
again in Homs and Lattakia province -
24 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs city and its northern countryside,
in Damascus, also areas in al-Yarmouk camp, and Lattakia province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province, amid clashes around Khan al-Shekh and renewed clashes in al-Zabdani,
again in Homs province,
in Idlib province,
again in Daraa province,
and in Aleppo province -
24 July: 13 civilians killed in Assad air raid on western Al-Ghariya -
24 July: Assad's regime continues to operate chemical weapons production facilities and is even developing new weapons,
Wall Street Journal reports -
25 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in Hama and Homs province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa province,
again in Idlib province,
in Damascus province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra province,
again in Homs province,
and again in Rif Dimashq province -
26 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
in Lattakia province,
in al-Quneitra province,
and in Hama province -
27 July: Assad's airforce extends its aerial campaign in the countryside of Daraa as rebel groups launch major offensive and as Assad admits military setbacks, in first public speech for a year -
27 July: Assad regime forces reportedly launched new chlorine gas attack on the Jobar district of Damascus, while over 33 air raids pounded rural Damascus, especially on Jobar, Douma, Arbin, Kafar Batna Zamalka and Ain Tarma -
28 July: Pro-Assad militias reportedly number more than 92,000 in coastal Lattakia region -
28 July: Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Hama and Idlib province -
29 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Damascus province, again on areas in al-Yarmouk camp,
in Idlib province,
and in al-Hasakah province -
30 July 2015: Assad regime's helicopters bombed the rebel-held town of Qalat al-Madiq in the western countryside of Hama city, killing 11 civilians, including seven women and a child -
30 July 2015: Assad regime warplanes carried out a raid this morning on places around the airbase of Deir Ezzor -
30 July: Massacre committed by the Assad regime in the town of Saraqib in rural Idlib, where 25 civilians were killed and many more injured in an air raid that targeted a market inside the town -
31 July: In the east of Syria, at least five people were killed in regime air strikes on the neighborhood of al-Salehiya in Deir-ez-Zor city, as a missile attack also killed two children in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib, while a mother and her child were killed in the village of Josef -
31 July: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Lattakia province,
in Hama province,
and in Homs province -
2015 Battle of Zabadani started in July as a military offensive launched by the Syrian Army and Hezbollah to capture the rebel-held town of Al-Zabadani in Rif Dimashq province
August 2015: 1 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa and Homs province -
2 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Homs province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
and again in Aleppo province -
3 August: An Assad warplane has crashed in a residential area of Ariha, under attack by regime’s air force in north-west Syria, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens -
3 August: Syrian regime's army artillery has killed a family of five in the mountainous town of Madhaya as regime and Hezbollah forces bombard Zabadani and thousands of families flee the besieged city and neighboring villages -
3 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs province,
in Hama province,
in al-Quneitra and Lattakia province,
in Aleppo province,
again in Hama province,
and in Idlib province -
4 August: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in Homs and Lattakia province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama and Homs province,
again in Aleppo province,
again in Damascus province,
again in Idlib province, and a man from Ebta’ was tortured to death in regime prisons in Daraa province -
5 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Quneitra and again in Idlib province,
again in al-Quneitra and Lattakia province,
in Aleppo and again in Idlib province -
6 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Lattakia province,
in Homs province,
in Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Suwaidaa and Daraa province,
in al-Quneitra province,
in Aleppo province and city,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
and again in Homs province -
6 August: Intense aerial bombardment and shelling by the regime forces in Idlib province -
7 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs province,
in Hama province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Hama province,
and again in Rif Dimashq province -
8 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Aleppo province,
in Damascus province, again in the al-Yarmouk camp,
in Daraa province,
and in Lattakia province -
8 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province -
9 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
and again in Daraa and Homs province -
10 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Homs province,
in Daraa province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
and again in Damascus and Daraa province -
11 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Hama and Homs province,
in Damascus, including places in al-Yarmouk camp, and in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
and again in Idlib province, including a field hospital area in the town of Ma’arrat Mesrin, killing and wounding many civilians and children -
12 August: At least 368 people, including 83 children and 63 women, killed by regime air raids last month, rights group says -
12 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa and Hama province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs province,
again in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
again in Hama province,
in al-Quneitra province,
again in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Idlib province,
again in Hama province,
and again in Rif Dimashq province -
12 August: Assad accused of napalm attack near Damascus -
13 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province, as Assad warplanes carry out several raids after midnight on the city of Darayya, accompanied by shelling by the regime forces on places in the city,
in al-Quneitra and Damascus province,
in Aleppo province,
again in Hama and again in Idlib province -
14 August: Scores of Hama displaced people, who were fleeing the neighboring province of Homs in the direction of Idleb, were killed by pro-regime shabeeha in Om al-Khazir village, as more than 50 people have been killed by regime airstrikes in the suburbs of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus -
14 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama province,
in Damascus province,
in Homs province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
and again in Hama province -
15 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Lattakia province,
in Daraa province,
and in Idlib province -
16 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Lattakia province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
again in Daraa and Lattakia province,
again in Hama province,
and again in Homs province -
16 August 2015: Assad regime's warplanes attacked a busy market in Douma suburb of Damascus, killing at least 82 people and wounding more than 250 in one of the deadliest single incidents involving regime's airstrikes -
17 August 2015: Assad's warplanes targeted Duma city with 3 more air strikes this morning, after the massacre yesterday which killed 96 civilians including 4 children and 3 women in addition to wounding 240 others -
17 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Homs and Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
and again in Hama and Homs province -
17/18 August: Assad regime attacks opposition-held Douma again following raids on Sunday that killed more than 100 people and were condemned by the UN -
18 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
and in Homs province -
19 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province, bombing the city of al-Zabadani,
and in Hama province -
20 August 2015: About 700 citizens dead and wounded in the strikes by the Assad regime forces warplanes on cities and towns in al-Gouta in a week -
20 August: A man from the city of Al-Raqqah died under torture in the prisons of the Assad regime forces -
20 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Hama province,
in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
again in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province, as clashes continue around Daraya and Duma,
in Homs province,
again in Hama and in Idlib province -
20 August: Douma outside Damascus, that this week endured one of the deadliest air raids in the Syrian civil war, has declared itself a disaster zone, and called for measures to save civilians from a regime-orchestrated siege that has lasted more than two years -
21 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province -
in Hama province,
in Deir Ezzor, Homs and in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa and Lattakia province,
in al-Quneitra and again in Rif-Dimashq province,
in Damascus and Homs province,
again in Aleppo and Lattakia province,
again in Hama and Idlib provinces and countrysides,
again in Aleppo province,
and again in Damascus and Rif-Dimashq provinces -
22 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
in Homs province,
in Rif-Dimashq province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
again in Daraa province,
in Damascus and again in Rif-Dimashq province -
23 August 2015: At least 50 bodies, including entire families, were retrieved from buildings levelled to the ground after Assad army missiles hit residential areas in the opposition-held Douma northeast of Damascus, with dozens of victims taken to field hospitals, many seriously wounded -
23 August 2015: A man from al-Tabqa city died under torture in Assad prison, after arresting him for three years -
23 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Rif-Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
again in Rif-Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor and Lattakia province,
and in Hama and Idlib province -
24 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif-Dimashq province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama province,
again in Idlib province,
and again in Rif-Dimashq province -
25 August 2015: At least 19 people were killed in Assad regime barrel bomb attacks on al-Barra and al-Hatib in the northern province of Idleb -
25 August 2015: About 25 civilians, half of them children, killed in Assad regime's aerial bombardment on 3 cities in the Eastern Ghouta in Rif-Dimashq province -
25 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Damascus and Lattakia province -
25 August 2015: A man from the town of Tal Shhab tortured to death inside the regime jails in Daraa province -
25 August: Demonstrations in Tartus to protest Iranian occupation in Syria -
26 August: Regime air forces massacred dozens of civilians, including women and children, in the town of al-Barah and on other villages and towns in the southern countryside of Idleb -
26 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Damascus and Daraa province,
again in Idlib and Lattakia province,
in Rif-Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
again in Aleppo province,
again in Hama province,
and again in Rif-Dimashq province -
26 August 2015: A man from the town of Beqres died under torture in the regime force prisons in Deir Ezzor province -
26/27 August: Fears grow over IS terrorists' chemical warfare capability,
as doctors find patients from frontline town of Marea have symptoms indicating exposure to toxic agent that was most likely mustard gas and as prospect raises, that IS has gained access to chemical stockpiled from Bashar al-Assad's regime thought to have been destroyed or degraded -
27 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in Daraa province, where also another two civilians were killed in the city of al-Sanamein and the town of al-Hara due to torturing them inside the regime jails,
in Homs province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
28 August 2015: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in Homs province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province, where also a man from Daraa al-Balad died under torture in the regime forces prisons -
29 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
and in Hama province -
30 August: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Damascus province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Idlib and Lattakia province,
again in Daraa province,
and again in Hama province -
31 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
and in al-Quneitra and Hama province -
31 August: Five civilians killed and many more wounded in regime’s chemical attack on al-Rastan
September 2015: 1 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and Lattakia province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Aleppo and Deir Ezzor province,
and in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province -
2 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Hama and in Homs province,
and in Aleppo and Lattakia province -
2 September: Survivors recall horror of Islamic State's August mustard gas attack, saying 'My body was burning' -
3 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in al-Quneitra and Damascus province,
in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Homs province,
again in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in Idlib and Lattakia province,
again in Hama province,
and again in al-Quneitra and Daraa province -
4 September: 15 people, including six women and four children, are the recent victims of the Assad regime’s air raids on Eastern Ghouta and on the embattled city of Douma northeast of Damascus -
4 September: SNHR documents the killing of 19 members of the medical staff in August 2015, 18 of whom were killed by regime forces and one by Islamic State -
4 September: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Damascus and Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
in Daraa province,
torturing a man from the city of al-Bokamal to death in security prisons, after being detained for nearly three years in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Quneitra and Lattakia province,
and in Hama and Idlib province -
5 September 2015: Protesters smash a statue of Hafez al-Assad in al-Suwaidaa in response to the assassination of Sheikh Wahid Bal’ous, known for his opposition to the Syrian regime and to the Islamists, killed along with three others by the explosion of a car targeting him in the area of Dahrat al-Jabal, in addition to at least 50 people murdered and injured by the explosion of a booby trapped vehicle in the National Hospital area in al-Suwaidaa -
5 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra, in Damascus and in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
and in Rif Dimashq province -
6 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib and Lattakia province,
in Rif Dimashq province, also targeting the city of Darayya and dropping barrel bombs,
in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs province, while a man from al-Qsir city died under torture in the prisons of the regime forces,
and in Damascus and Daraa province, also again bombing areas in al-Yarmouk camp south of the capital causing injuries -
7 September 2015: At least 556 civilians reportedly killed, 1,192 wounded and 895 residences completely destroyed in a deadly air campaign carried out since August 10 by the Syrian regime against the suburbs of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus, also leaving behind 372 orphans in Ghouta -
7 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus province,
in Aleppo and Hama province,
in Homs province,
and in Rif Dimashq province -
8 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in Homs province,
in Lattakia province,
and torture a man and his son from the town of Jasem in Daraa province to death in the prisons of the regime forces -
8 September 2015: Iran has established subsidiary military battalions in central Syria, specifically in the province of Hama, in an attempt to strengthen its military influence in western Syria -
9 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
and in Daraa and Homs province -
10 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama, Lattakia and in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra, in Damascus and in Homs province -
11 September 2015: New evidence of Syria chemical attacks emerges -
11 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in al-Suwaidaa and Lattakia province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
and in Homs province -
12 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo and in Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama and in Homs province,
in Daraa province, where 7 people died, 5 of them from one family, and others were wounded in the bombing which targeted Tariq al-Sad neighborhood,
and in Damascus province -
13 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province,
again Rif Dimashq province,
again in Damascus and Daraa province,
in Lattakia province,
in Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
and again in Idlib province -
14 September: Jaish al-Islam fighters have seized control of Tel Kurdi in the north-eastern suburbs of the capital amid intense efforts to liberate prisoners from Damascus central prison, activists says, also hinting at coordination between Islamic State terrorists and the regime army in the fight against rebel groups -
14 September: Rebel fighters seize most of Adra's central prison -
14 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and in Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama province,
in al-Hasakah province,
in al-Suwaidaa province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Idlib province -
15 September 2015: More than 40 barrel bombs dropped by Assad's attack helicopters on Darayya and al-Zabadani in Rif Dimashq province -
15 September 2015: Assad's attack helicopters intensively bombed areas in Qastoun in the northern countryside of Hama, also areas in al-Mansoura village in Sahl al-Ghab were shelled by helicopters, and his warplanes opened fire on areas in Shahshabu Mountain in the western countryside of Hama -
15 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Idlib and in Lattakia province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
16 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and in Homs province,
in al-Quneitra and in Damascus province, also bombing areas in al-Yarmouk camp again and again,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
17 September 2015: Assad's helicopters dropped a barrel bomb on a building in the Saad Al-Ansari neighborhood in Aleppo which resulted in the death of 17 civilians at least while tens of others gone missing or wounded, including children and women -
17 September 2015: Regime’s helicopters drop about 50 barrel bombs on al-Zabadani and the Western Ghouta in Rif Dimashq province -
17 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama and in Homs province -
17 September: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on areas in the city of Bosra al-Sham in the countryside of Daraa, which led to the death of at least 17 people, including two children and four women -
18 September 2015: Assad's air force raided the neighborhood of al-Shaar in Aleppo on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, sending the civilian death toll to 60 in the last 72 hours -
18 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Suwaidaa and Daraa province,
again in Aleppo and in Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra province,
in Rif Dimashq province, as clashes in the city of Zabadani continue,
in Hama and in Homs province -
18 September: About 100 civilians in Syria reportedly died yesterday as Assad puts new Russian weapons to use -
19 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Hama province,
in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib and in Lattakia province,
in Aleppo and in al-Hasakah province -
20 September: Aleppo medics deliver baby wounded in the womb, after her mother was caught in a missile strike that also injured the woman’s three other children, reportedly carried out by Assad's forces -
20 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Damascus, targeting places in al-Yarmouk camp, and in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs and Lattakia province,
in Hama province,
in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province,
again in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Hama and in Homs province,
again in Aleppo city,
in al-Raqqa province,
again in Hama and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Deir Ezzor and Lattakia province,
again in Homs and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Homs and Idlib province,
again in al-Quneitra and in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Lattakia province,
and in Aleppo province and city,
again in Rif Dimashq province, rising to 32 the number of barrel bombs dropped by Assad's helicopters on areas in the city of Darayya since Sunday morning -
21 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Lattakia province and Rif Dimashq province, dropping more barrel bombs on places in Beit Jenn and on areas in the city of Darayya, carrying out more than 50 airstrikes, and also bombing places with warplanes in al-Marj area in the Eastern Ghouta,
in Aleppo province and city,
in Homs province,
in al-Hasakah and in Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province -
21 September 2015: After pro-regime forces launched a rocket attack on a market popularly in the neighborhood of Al-Shaa’r in Aleppo, killing 33 civilians, most of them women and children, Syrian Coalition condemns Russia and Iran as partners in Assad’s massacres -
22 September: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib and in Hama province, where also five civilians from Soran and Khattab town were tortured to death in regime prisons,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Idlib and Homs province,
again in Aleppo and in Daraa province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Damascus and again in Idlib province,
again in Aleppo and in Daraa province,
again in Homs province,
and again in Rif Dimashq province -
23 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Quneitra, Daraa and Hama province,
in Aleppo city,
in Homs province and again in Idlib province,
and again in Homs province -
24 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs and Lattakia province,
in Aleppo province, including heavy bombardments by warplanes which arrived from Russia, raising the question whether the pilots of the warplanes are Russian or Syrians pilots,
in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province,
and in Hama province -
24 September 2015: Facing possible death or less likely death, dozens of families in the city of Raqqa began to flee their homes just hours after regime fighter jets began targeting civilian neighborhoods in the city, leaving dozens dead and wounded -
25 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Hama and in Idlib province,
again in Homs and in Lattakia province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
25 September: Reported agreement about Zabadani and Kafrayya and al-Fou’aa and their surroundings -
25 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Aleppo and in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and in Homs province -
26 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Homs and in Idlib province -
26 September: Syria arming Hezbollah with 75 Soviet-era tanks, as more Iranian soldiers land in Damascus and as Iranian, Russian regime and Hezbollah work to prop up Assad regime -
26 September 2015: Assad's helicopters bombed areas near Muadamiyat al-Sham city in Rif Dimashq province -
27 September 2015: Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in the town of Ayyash at the western countryside of Deir Ezzor province, while a man died under torture in Assad's prisons,
in Rif Dimashq province, dropping about 20 barrel bombs on Darayya city in the Western Ghouta,
in Hama province, as warplanes shell Hama and Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on areas in the town of Al-Latamneh,
and in al-Quneitra province -
28 September 2015: It rose to 24, most of them children, the number of persons who were killed in the missile bombing by the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them on a public park in the besieged al-Wa’er neighborhood in the city of Homs on Sunday -
28 September 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Rif Dimashq province, where the number of barrel bombs dropped by Assad's helicopters on areas in Darayya rose to 33, and the helicopters also renewed the bombing on places in Muadamiyat al-Sham,
in Hama province,
in Deir Ezzor and Lattakia province,
and in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province -
29 September 2015: At least 23 people - 8 of them children and 4 women - killed in the massacre carried out by the regime’s warplanes in airstrikes on places at the outskirts of al-Suq al-Meqbi in Deir Ezzor province -
29 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Homs province,
and again in Daraa and in Idlib province -
30 September: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime’s helicopters target Darayya in Rif Dimashq province by at least 39 barrel bombs since morning, while the regime forces also bomb areas in the city of Erbeen in the Eastern al-Ghouta accompanied by other attacks -
30 September: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province, where more children and other people died due to airstrikes and missile bombings by the regime forces,
in Aleppo province,
in Daraa province, where Assad's helicopters drop several barrel bombs on places in the area Tal Antar north of Kafr Shams town, followed by shelling by the regime forces on places in Tal Antar area and bombings in Daraa al-Balad,
in al-Quneitra and in Hama province
October 2015: 1 October 2015: More shelling and more victims, including many women and children, by the Russian-backed regime forces and warplanes on al-Wa’er neighborhood and the northern countryside of Homs -
1 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama and in Lattakia province -
2 October: Russian combat aircraft carry out a second day of airstrikes against Syrian rebel forces, as USA accuses Russia of indiscriminate military operations against Syrian opposition, and Iran backs Russian intervention -
2 October: 1,549 people, including 223 children and 152 women, were killed by the Assad regime backed by Russia and Iran during September, in addition to 50 more killed under torture in Assad’s prisons, Syrian Coalition’s report shows -
2 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on areas in Idlib province, killing many civilians including women and children and injuring other citizens -
2 October: Russian warplanes target the factions’ positions in Hama province and villages and cities in Idlib province -
2 October: Russian warplanes targeted a field hospital in the town of al-Latamnah in Hama province and more villages in Idlib province -
2 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out airstrikes on several areas in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman in Latakia province, amid bombing by the regime forces at areas in the northern countryside of Latakia -
2 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out airstrikes on areas in the northwestern countryside of Hama -
2 October: Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes on several places at the town of al-Ghadqa in the eastern countryside of Idlib, injuring several people, including paramedics from civil defense -
2 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Aleppo province,
in Damascus and in Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo and Homs province,
again in Homs province,
again in Aleppo province,
again in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Daraa and Homs province,
again in Aleppo and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
again in Aleppo province,
again in Deir Ezzor province,
again in Homs province,
again in Damascus and Rif Damashq province -
3 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes on areas in Jabal al-Turkman in the northern countryside of Lattakia -
3 October: Suspected Russian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on places in the north and west of al-Raqqa -
3 October: The Russian warplanes strike Jabal al-Turkman in Lattakia province -
3 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Quneitra and Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
in Al-Suwaydaa and Homs province,
in Homs province,
in Idlib province, while Russian warplanes re-strike Jabal al-Zawiya leaving injuries,
in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
again in Aleppo and Daraa province,
in Homs province -
4 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several airstrikes on areas in the city of Idlib, confirmed information about casualties -
4 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several airstrikes on Aqrab area in the southern countryside of Hama, as regime warplanes attacked the countryside of Homs, killing 4 civilians, and the northern contryside of Lattakia -
4 October: Suspected Russian warplanes carried out several raids on villages in the northern countryside of Homs, killing children and wounding other civilians -
4 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out airstrikes on villages in the countryside of Aleppo -
4 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Daraa province,
in Idlib rovince,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
and again in Rif Dimashq province -
5 October 2015: More than 100 people were killed in air strikes by Syrian regime and Russian jets targeting Aleppo, activists said, after Russian fighter jets have mounted a wave of strikes in the provinces of Idleb, Hama and Aleppo -
5 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian bombed areas in Idlib province -
5 October: Russian fighter jets target farm on the outskirts of Ihsim in Idlib province, killing nine members of one family -
5 October: Suspected Russian warplanes carried out several strikes on the towns and villages in Hama province -
5 October: Warplanes, believed to be Russian, attacked places in Aleppo province killing and wounding people, as Assad's helicopters dropped more barrel bombs -
5 October: Suspected Russian warplanes carried out several strikes on places in al-Raqqa province, as Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs in the northern countryside of Hama -
5 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Damascus province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Homs province,
again in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
again in Hama province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Homs province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
6 October: Russian warplanes carried out further airstrikes on areas in Hama province -
6 October: Russian warplanes carried out several raids on areas in the eastern countryside of Aleppo -
6 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out several airstrikes in the southern countryside of Idlib and on towns in Idlib province -
6 October 2015: Warplanes, believed to be Russian, struck places in Homs province -
6 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out airstrikes on places in Aleppo province -
6 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Damascus and Lattakia province,
in Homs and Rif Dimashq province,
in Aleppo province,
6 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province -
7 October 2015: Three people died – one of them a child - in the airstrikes carried out by warplanes believed to be Russian on areas in Aleppo province -
7 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Homs province,
in Aleppo, Daraa and Rif Dimashq province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
8 October: An intense wave of Russian air strikes hit towns of Kafr Zita, Kafr Nabudah, Sayyad and the village of Lataminah in Hama province, as well as Khan Shaykhun and Alhbit in Idleb province, Reuters and monitoring group report -
8 October: Russian warplanes carry out raids on areas, towns and villages in Hama province -
8 October: Russian warplanes carry out raids on areas in Idlib province,
killing several people including women and children -
8 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimahq province,
in Damascus and again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib province,
in Aleppo and in Homs province -
8/9 October: Syrian National Coalition's Khaled Khoja says that the Russian invasion of Syria destabilizes the region and threatens its security,
as Russian, Iranian and Syrian regime forces, supported by Russian air power, retreat from areas they have previously occupied in Hama’s northern countryside -
9 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama and Idlib province,
in Deir Ezzor and al-Raqqah province,
in Homs and in Rif Dimashq province -
9 October: Russia reportedly dropped cluster bombs on refugee camps in Idlib province, killing at least five civilians in the attack and injuring dozens -
10 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian targeted areas in Idlib province -
10 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out several raids on areas in the northern countryside of Lattakia -
10 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes on areas in Hama and Idlib province -
10 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in al-Quneitra, Daraa and Deir Ezzor province,
in Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
again in Homs province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province, where also four people died under torture in Assad's prisons,
in Damascus and again in Rif Damashq province -
11 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes on areas in Hama province -
11 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several airstrikes at places in Deir Ezzor province -
11 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out several airstrikes in Idlib province -
11 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Daraa province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs and again in Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra, Daraa and again Rif Dimashq province -
12 October 2015: Russian air strikes target civilian areas three times more than Islamic State positions, murdering 104 civilians, including 25 children and 15 women, in ten days, rights group reports -
12 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
in Aleppo and Homs province,
in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor province,
in al-Quneitra, Daraa and Idlib province,
and in Hama province -
13 October 2015: Two rockets struck the Russian embassy in Damascus on Tuesday sparking panic as some 300 people gathered to express their support for Russian regime, now a direct war party also in Syria, and a brutal war party against democracy -
13 October: Syrian Kurdish YPG's Sipan Hamo says that an attack to drive Islamic State terrorists from its Syrian base of operations in Raqqa is expected within weeks, as military alliance receives small arms and ammunition airdropped by USA forces in Hassakeh province -
13 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes in Homs province -
13 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian bombed areas in Khan Shaykhun city in Idlib province, which led to the death of a teacher and injured citizens -
13 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out strikes on areas in Aleppo province -
13 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and Lattakia province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
again in Lattakia province,
again in Hama and Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra province,
in Damascus and again in Rif Damashq province,
again in Deir Ezzor and in Homs province -
13 October 2015: Seven civilians killed in Russian airstrikes on Hayyan near Aleppo as the town was bombed though there are no Islamic State elements around or inside -
14 October 2015: At least 27 people were killed in regime and Russian air strikes Tuesday in the provinces of Aleppo and Damascus in the fiercest aerial campaign on rebel-held areas for months -
14 October 2015: Regime warplanes targeted a popular market in the town of Ayn Tarma in Eastern Ghouta in Rif Damashq province on Tuesday, leading to the death of over a dozen civilians, as other cities and towns were also bombed, including Douma, Harasta, Arbin and Mudera -
14 October 2015: Russian warplanes strike medical centers north of Aleppo, Syrian Coalition says adding that the Russians are systematically targeting the Free Syrian Army, the civilian population, places of worship, and medical facilities -
14 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Homs province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
and in Daraa, Deir Ezzora, and Lattakia province -
15 October 2015: Russian warplanes carry out airstrikes in Idlib province -
15 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Damascus and Daraa province,
in Hama and Lattakia province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
again in Aleppo province,
in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in al-Quneitra and Homs province -
16 October 2015: Assad's army launches Aleppo offensive with Iranian support, the first time Iranian fighters take part on such a scale in war in Syria -
16 October 2015: The Russian air force committed an appalling massacre in the town of Terre Maaleh north of Homs when it targeted a bakery inside the town,
killing civilians, mostly children, and wounding many others -
16 October 2015: An al-Souria Net correspondent in Homs has confirmed the accidental bombing of regime forces by Russian warplanes on Thursday, targeting many locations and killing two brigadiers and six soldiers -
16 October 2015: Russian-Iranian aggression on Syria has killed 878 civilians, including 86 children and 65 women, since 30 September, the largest number of victims recorded in Aleppo, where 301 civilians were killed, mostly as a result of the Russian aerial bombardment, in addition 142 people were killed in Homs, 137 Damascus and its suburbs, 100 in Dara’a, and 94 in Hama -
17 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out at least 9 raids on places in Talbisah, the town of al-Ghanto and the village of Term’alah in Homs province, information reported the death of 3 civilians in al-Ghanto while others were wounded -
17 October 2015: The Russian warplanes attack again areas in the north of Homs -
17 October 2015: Even bombing civilian areas, Russia paves way for Assad regime’s Iranian-backed advance on Aleppo, as survivors are fleeing Syria’s second city -
17 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Daraa and Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Hasakah and Homs province -
18 October: Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes on places in the countryside of Hama -
18 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
in al-Quneitra province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in Homs province -
19 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes on places in Lattakia province -
19 October: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Lattakia province,
in Deir Ezzor and Homs province,
in Damascus and Daraa province,
in al-Quneitra, al-Suwaidaa and Rif Dimashq province,
in Hama and in Idlib province -
20 October 2015: About 120 persons died and wounded, including women and children, in a massacre by Russian warplanes in areas at the northern countryside of Lattakia -
20 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes in the countryside of Lattakia, which resulted in the death of 7 people at least -
20 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Deir Ezzor and Idlib province,
in Damascus and Rif Damashq province -
21 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province -
21 October 2015: It rose to 13 at least the number of persons killed in the bombing by warplanes believed to be Russian on the hospital area in Sermin in Idlib province, among the dead is a physiotherapist and one of the hospital guards and a member of the Civil Defense -
21 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Damashq province,
in Daraa province,
and in Homs province -
22 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Homs province -
22 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Deir Ezzor province, while a man from the town of al-Bo Omar in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor died under torture in Assad's prisons, after being detained for nearly two years -
22 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Damascus and Rif Damascus province,
and in Daraa province -
22 October 2015: The death of at least eight people was confirmed and other were wounded when warplanes bombed areas in the town of Msraba, while Assad's helicopters dropped 12 barrel bombs on areas in the city of Darayya in Rif Dimashq province -
23 October 2015: Russian warplanes carry out around 40 sorties on the area around Tir Mealla, Sesil, Mahatta and other areas in Homs province, as opposition factions manage to repel an attack on the town of Tir Mealla amid the unprecedented bombing campaign -
23 October 2015: 17 civilians, including six children and five women, reportedly killed in attacks of warplanes on the town of Talbeesa north of Homs -
24 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes in Hama province targeting a field hospital in the town of Al-Latamneh -
24 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out several airstrikes on areas in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal al-Turkman in Lattakia province -
24 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Damascus and Rif Damashq province,
in Homs province,
in al-Quneitra and in Daraa province -
24 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Idlib province,
and in Hama province -
25 October 2015: Russian airstrikes on Hama countryside -
25 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province -
25 October 2015: Bombing by warplanes believed to be Russian in Idlib province -
25 October 2015: Russian airstrikes in Hama province -
25 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province -
25 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib and Rif Damashq province, dropping dozens of barrel bombs on Darayya city,
in Aleppo province,
in Daraa and Homs province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Idlib province,
in Hama and Homs province,
again in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
and in Hama province, dropping more barrel bombs on the town of al-Latamnah as well as on the two villages of Ma’er Kebbah and Letmin -
26 October 2015: An alliance of Free Syrian Army-related groups in southern Syria says Russia must stop bombing FSA -
26 October: Human Rights Watch accuses Russia of war crimes in Syria -
26 October 2015: Russian warplanes bombed Qinnisrin school in southern rural Aleppo, destroying large parts of the building, also targeting the village of Sheikh Baraka in Idlib province, murdering a woman and her two children, wounding many civilians, and targeting the villages of Zitan, Khalsa, Khan Tuman and Al-Hadir in Aleppo province -
26 October: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Daraa province -
26 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor and Homs province,
and in Rif Damashq province -
27 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama and Idlib province, killing civilians,
and in Rif Damashq province -
27 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province,
in Rif Damashq province,
and in Homs province -
28 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out airstrikes on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Hama and Idlib province -
28 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province,
in Deir Ezzor and Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Hama and Idlib province -
29 October 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Daraa province,
and in Aleppo province -
29 October 2015: A member in the medical staff of Al-Lataminah hospital died affected by injuries from airstrikes by Russian warplanes on the field hospital area in the northern countryside of Hama -
29 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Lattakia province,
in Homs and Rif Damashq province,
in Hama and in Idlib province -
29 October 2015: The escalation of attacks by Russia’s air forces, which began in late September, had targeted 12 hospitals in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces, including six supported by Médecins Sans Frontières, a MSF statement says -
30 October 2015: At least three civilians, including a woman and her only child, were killed when 12 Assad barrel bombs struck the city of Daraya -
30 October 2015: The Russian air force committed a new massacre in Syrian today hitting a market in the district of Douma, near Damascus, with ten guided missiles, killing 55 civilians and wounding 125 others, including women and children in an initial toll -
31 October 2015: In yet the bloodiest days since Russia began launching airstrikes on Syria, 227 civilians, including 43 children and 22 women, were killed in intensified air raids on Aleppo, Rural Damascus, Homs and Idlib, as the Russian airstrikes hit mainly residential areas, markets and field hospitals -
31 October 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and Rif Dimashq province, droppping 20 barrel bombs alone on areas of Darayya,
and in Aleppo province
November 2015: 1 November 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province,
in Idlib province -
1 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Damascus and Rif Dimashq province,
and torture a young man from the town of Dael in the countryside of Daraa to death inside the prisons of the regime -
2 November 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Idlib province, killing a child,
and in Aleppo province -
2 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor and Homs province,
in Daraa and Idlib province,
in 'Aleppo province,
in al-Quneitra and Hama province,
also arresting a doctor in front of his clinic in the city of al-Suwaidaa and taking him to an unknown destination -
3 November 2015: At least 191 civilians were killed in Douma during the month of October as regime and Russian air strikes targeted several neighborhoods of the city, with 74 deaths recorded over the last three days -
3 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province -
3 November 2015: Assistance Coordination Unit's relief worker Zakaria Hijazi was killed in a Russian airstrike in southern rural Aleppo and the head of Hama aid program Muyassar al-Hamdo died after succumbing to his wounds following a Russian air strike on Tamanaa village -
4 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama and Idlib province,
in Homs province,
and in Rif Damashq province -
4 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Idlib province, killing and injuring dozens of civilians,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Daraa, Idlib and Lattakia province,
in Homs province,
and in Rif Damashq province, also carrying out airstrikes on the hospital area in the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta -
5 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province,
in Homs province,
and in Idlib province -
5 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa province,
in Idlib province,
and in Rif Damashq province also dropping more barrel bombs -
6 November 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more intensive airstrikes on areas in the towns and villages in Hama province, killing people including children,
in Aleppo province -
6 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs and Rif Dimashq province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Aleppo and Lattakia province -
7 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama province,
and in Idlib province -
7 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
8 November: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Idlib province,
in Lattakia province,
and in Hama province -
8 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs province,
in Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
in Lattakia and Rif Dimashq province,
and in Daraa province -
9 November 2015: Motii Jalal's footage shows the moment a Russian airstrike hits the Sarmin National hospital in Idlib province, killing 12 people and injuring 20 -
9 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Homs and Daraa province,
and in Rif Dimashq province, dropping 36 Explosive barrels on Daraya city amid targeting the city with 14 missiles and 10 airstrikes -
10 November 2015: At least 24 Syrian civilians, including three children and a woman, reportedly killed Sunday in regime and Russian air strikes on rebel-held areas across Syria -
10 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province,
and in Idlib province -
10 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Hama province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Aleppo province,
in Damascus,
in Rif Damashq,
and in Homs and Lattakia province -
11 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama province -
11 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Lattakia province,
in Homs province,
in Hama province,
and in Rif Dimashq province -
12 November: Assad's barrel bombs continue to fall despite Russian account, says Daraya Local Council -
12 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Damashq province, also dropping barrel bombs on places in the town of Khan al-Shih and targeting areas in the city of Darayya,
in al-Quneitra and Homs province,
in Daraa province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
in Aleppo province,
and in Deir Ezzor province -
13 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in Rif Damashq province -
13 November 2015: Assad forces launch major rocket attack on Daraya near Damascus, bombarding the town with over a dozen air raids and 33 surface-to-surface missiles -
13 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus and Rif Damashq province, dropping barrel bombs on areas in Darayya,
in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Hama and Idlib province,
and in Daraa and Homs province -
14 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo and Hama province -
14 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces torture people to death, shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Damashq province,
and in Homs province -
15 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Idlib province,
also on areas of Saraqib wounding a number of civilians,
and in Homs province -
15 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo province,
in Deir Ezzor province,
in Rif Damashq province,
in Daraa and Hama province,
in Idlib province,
in al-Quneitra province,
and in Homs and Lattakia province -
16 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama province,
and in Aleppo province, also targeting the neighborhood Karam al-Trab and al-Myassar in the city of Aleppo, which led to the death of 2 persons at least and wounded others in al-Myassar neighborhood -
16 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Damascus province,
in Hama province,
in al-Quneitra and Daraa province,
and in Rif Damashq province, also dropping at least 25 barrel bombs on areas in Darayya since this morning, amid the fall of more missiles believed to be ground-to-ground on places in Darayya -
17 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more airstrikes in Hama province,
and in Idlib province causing casualties -
17 November 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in al-Suwaidaa and Lattakia province,
in Rif Damashq province,
and in Aleppo province -
17 November 2015: Russian airstrikes target Khan Shekhon and kill civilians in Idlib province -