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
Geography and history of Syria: Geography of Syria - Upper Mesopotamia - Geography of Mesopotamia
History of the Middle East - 1516–1918 Ottoman Syria - 1828–1908 Decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire - 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire in World War I - 1923-1946 French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon - 1939-1945 Middle East Theatre of World War II and Vichy French controlled Syria and Lebanon - Modern history of Syria
Demographics of Syria: Demographics of Syria - Ethnic groups in Syria
Foreign relations of Syria: Foreign relations of Syria
International reactions to Assad's war against the Syrian people: International reactions to Assad's war against the Syrian people
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
January 2013: 8 January 2013: The World Food Program says it is helping 1.5 million Syrians, but continued fighting and an inability to use the port of Tartus to deliver food mean many people are not receiving aid - 11 January: A day after UN-Arab League emissary Brahimi says Assad is dispensable, foreign ministry in Damascus replies with accusations - 31 January: UN conference in Kuwait responds to the call for help from Syria's desperate people with pledges of 1,5bn $ of aid money
February/March 2013: 13 février: La Russie continuera de livrer des armes à la Syrie - 17 February 2013: The UN human rights chief said Bashar al-Assad should be probed for war crimes and called for immediate action by the international community, including possible military intervention - 29 March 2013: Iran, North Korea and Syria block UN first-ever international arms treaty to regulate the $70bn global conventional weapons trade
April 2013: 20 April 2013: 'Friends of Syria', the main international backers of Syria's opposition, gather in Istanbul with the rebels hoping Western and Arab countries will step up their support, including with arms
June 2013: 18 June 2013: As the G8 summit calls for immediate peace talks on Syria, isolated Russian Putin clashes with other leaders - 22 June: Friends of Syria agree to provide 'all the necessary materiel and equipment' to Syrian opposition to counter the brutal attacks launched by the Assad regime and its allies
Since August 2013: International reactions to the 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attacks
October 2013: 17 October: Opposition to attend Friends of Syria meet on October 22 in London - 23 October: Syria's opposition resisted calls from Western and Arab countries to commit to attending peace talks, saying they would not take part if there was any chance Assad could cling to power - 22/23 October: After SNC's Ahmad al Jarba listed the conditions to attending Geneva 2 conference, Syria talks in London agree on no future role for Bashar al-Assad
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/Arab League relations: 27 November 2011: The Arab League adopts sanctions against Syria, including an asset freeze and an embargo on investments
2012: 15 mars 2012: Les pays arabes du Golfe ferment leurs ambassades à Damas - March 2012 Arab League summit without Syria - 2. Juli 2012: Der Generalsekretär der Arabischen Liga Nabil al-Arabi sagt beim zweitägigen Treffen mit der syrischen Opposition in Kairo, die Schuld an dem blutigen Konflikt trage das Regime von Präsident Bashar al-Asad - 23 July: Arab League foreign ministers have called Bashar al-Assad to step down - 26 September: Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad says Arab forces must act where the Security Council has failed - 8 November: Arab League chief says Bashar al-Assad's regime will not stay in power for much longer, urging opposition to bridge their differences - 13 November: Arab League welcomes new opposition bloc and recognises the Syrian National Coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people
2013: 6 March 2013: Syrian National Coalition, the opposition umbrella group, asked to send representative to Arab League summit later this month - 24 March: Arab League gives Syrian seat to opposition - 26 March: Syrian opposition to attend summit of Arab League in Doha - 27 August: Arab League accuses Assad regime of chemical attack - 1 September: Arab League urged the UN and the international community to take 'deterrent' action against the Syrian Assad regime over chemical attack
2015: 15 May 2015: Syrian National Coalition's Ahmad Jarba stressed the importance of the upcoming Syrian opposition conference to be held in Riyadh
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
2014: 17 June 2014: Crises and situations in Iraq, Syria, in Central Africa, Libya, Myanmar, Nigeria and Mali on the agenda of the OIC Foreign Ministers Conference, 41st session in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) 18/19 June 2014
Syria/United Nations relations Syria/United Nations relations - International reactions to the 2011-2012 Syrian protests and uprising
2011: 28. April 2011: UN uneins gegen Assad - Peace proposals for Syria, e.g. Arab League peace plan accepted by Assad regime on 3 November 2011
2012: UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria Kofi Annan appointed on February 23 2012 - 6. September 2012: Ban Ki Moon kritisiert Sicherheitsrat wegen Untätigkeit und Versagen im Syrien-Konflikt - 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' - 20 December: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sees no prospect of Syria violence end
January-March 2013: 17 February 2013: The UN human rights chief said Bashar al-Assad should be probed for war crimes and called for immediate action by the international community, including possible military intervention - 20 February: UN warns of 'humanitarian tragedy' in Syria - 7 March 2013: Armed fighters linked to the Syrian opposition detained 21 UN peacekeepers from the Philippines in the zone separating Israeli and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights - 8 March: Intense Assad's army bombardment prevented a UN convoy from reaching and retrieving 21 UN peacekeepers near the Golan Heights - 9 mars: Les 21 agents de l'ONU capturés en Syrie, sont libres en Jordanie - 21 March: UN launches probe of possible Syrian chemical arms attack - 25 mars: l'ONU va évacuer la moitié de son personnel en Syrie en raison des risques grandissants à cause de son défaillance
April-June 2013: 8 avril: Assad régime refuse l'envoi d'enquêteurs de l'ONU chargés de déterminer si des armes chimiques ont été utilisées dans le conflit sur son territoire - 27 April: UN investigates Assad's chemical weapons use - 30 April: UN urges Syria to let in chemical weapons experts - 7 May: No proof Syria rebels used chemical weapons, says UN - 7 May: The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for detaining four UN peacekeepers monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, saying that they had abducted the group for their own protection - 16 May: UN General Assembly slams al-Assad for 'escalation' in Syria war - 27 May: 'Extremely concerned' over Lebanese terror group’s role in Qusair fighting UN's Ban Ki-moon condemns Hezbollah over Syria involvement - 29 mai: Projet de résolution à l'Onu contre l'intervention de combattants étrangers en Syrie - 7 June: UN seeks over 5 billion dollars to meet the needs of nearly 7 million Syrians, now in need of urgent help
July 2013: 17 July 2013: Five thousand people a month are dying in Syria's war, which has now generated the worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, UN says - 24 July: UN told of 13 alleged chemical attacks in Syria, the UN says ahead of talks between UN experts and the Assad regime on securing access to sites in Syria where the arms are said to have been used - 25 July: Syria death toll above 100,000, UN says - 26 July: In New York Syrian opposition tells UN security council 'give us peace, not a UN seat'
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
October 2013: 2 October: The UN Security Council calls for immediate access into Syria to provide desperately needed aid, expressing alarm at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation - 18 October 2013: Saudi Arabia declines UNSC seat, cites failure to tackle conflicts, saying UN Security Council 'double standards' stop it 'from properly shouldering its responsibilities towards world peace', from ending the war in Syria and acting on other Middle East issues - 20 October: Syria peace conference set for November 23, Arab League's Nabil al-Arabi says after meeting Lakhdar Brahimi - 26. Oktober: UNO-Nothilfekoordinatorin Valerie Amos appelliert erneut an den Sicherheitsrat, um ein Ende der Brutalität und Gewalt in Syrien zu erreichen - 28 October: Main Syrian rebel brigades have announced their opposition to an international peace conference on Syria if it does not result in Assad's removal
November 2013: 5 novembre: Toujours pas de date pour une conférence de paix Genève-2 - 6 November: Syria's opposition urges UN envoy Brahimi 'neutrality' - 9 November: Syria's opposition is to meet Saturday in Istanbul for talks to decide whether or not to attend peace conference in Geneva - 12 November: Syrian Coalition accepts Geneva peace talks and says Assad must go - 14 November: Syria peace talks reportedly 'set for December 12' - 20 November: UN General Assembly rights committee slammed rights abuses by the Syrian government after a debate marked by a bitter clash between the UN envoys of Saudi Arabia and Syria - 25 November: Syria peace talks set for January 22 in Geneva, UN says - 27 November: Free Syrian Army to pursue its fight to topple Bashar al-Assad regardless of Geneva talks - 28 November: SNC to attend Geneva peace conference
December 2013: 2 December: Syria death toll hits nearly 126,000, more than a third civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the SOHR says - 3 December: Evidence has been uncovered in Syria that implicates Bashar al-Assad and his administration in war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN human rights official says - 13 December: UN confirms in a final report that chemical arms were used repeatedly in Syria - 16 December: UN launches $6.5bn Syria appeal
January 2014: 6 janvier: L'Iran absent de la première liste des invités à la conférence de paix le 22 janvier, envoyée par Ban Ki-moon - 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 - 12 January: Friends of Syria’ urge opposition to attend Geneva peace talks - 12 January: UN concerns mount over besieged Syrians - 15 janvier: Réunion à Koweït de donateurs pour la plus importante levée de fonds par l'ONU - 18 janvier: La Coalition de l'opposition syrienne participera à la conférence de Genève 2 - 20 January: Hours after the SNC has decided to attend Switzerland peace conference, UN chief Ban Ki-moon invites Iran to take part in Switzerland, an offer Iran's regime accepts - 21 janvier: L'ONU a retiré son invitation à l'Iran à participer à la conférence de paix en Suisse sur la Syrie, l'opposition syrienne confirme sa présence - 21 January: Syrian Coalition welcomes UN decision to withdraw Iran’s invitation
January 2014 Geneva II Conference on Syria - 23 janvier: À Montreux Ahmad Djarba (Coalition nationale syrienne) a accusé Assad de crimes de guerre - des négociations directes vendredi - 25 January: Despite the regime's refusal to agree the 2012 statement by world powers calling for a transitional government, Syria sides to meet on Saturday - 25 January: UN documents new war crimes in Syria for future prosecution - 27 January: The Geneva talks are deadlocked over the issue of transferring power to a transitional government - 29 janvier: À Genève l'ONU va tenter de relancer les négociations interrompues - 29 January: Syria sides agree on basis to discuss transitional government - 31 January: The first round of Geneva talks to end on Friday, with little or no progress expected on core issues - 31 January: Over 1,800 people killed in Syria during 'Geneva 2' talks
February 2014: 5 February: Syrian children enduring 'unspeakable' suffering, UN report says - 7 February: Homs aid operation begins as UN condemns Assad's barrel-bomb attacks - 9 February: UN operation struggles to deliver aid in Homs after mortar fire lands near SARC convoy and shots fired at trucks - 9 February: UN and Red Crescent resumed Homs aid operation after attack - 11 février: 460 civils évacués de Homs par l'ONU, aucune avancée à Genève - 12 February: Aid workers in Homs race to evacuate civilians before Syrian ceasefire ends and as Russia on Wednesday rejects the wording of a draft UN resolution calling for greater access to Syria for aid purposes - 14 February: 'Failure' looms, Geneva Syria talks mediator says - 14 February: UN's Valerie Amos urges the Security Council to act immediately to ensure more humanitarian access in war-torn Syria - 15 February: After more than 140,000 people, over 7,000 of them children, killed in Assad's war against Syrians, UN says 'sorry' for Syria talks failure - 22 February: UN Security Council unanimously approves Syria aid access resolution that threatens to take 'further steps' in the case of non-compliance
March 2014: 6 March: Sarin gas in attack on Syrian civilians in Ghouta 2013 probably government's, says UN - 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 - 18 March: There is an overwhelming sense of hopelessness amongst Syrians as the international community remains paralyzed over how to bring the war to an end, says UN Commission of Inquiry - 29 March: UN blasts Syrian regime's aid delays
April/May 2014: 24 April: UN's Ban Ki-moon demands Security Council action on Syria over denied demands for aid access - 24 April: The heads of five UN agencies issued a statement lamenting the failure of efforts to help Syria’s people and appealing once more for assistance - 28 April: Legal experts urge UN to ignore Assad's ban on supplying aid directly to areas outside regime's control - 29 April: Once more the UN is called to block the flow of weapons to Syria's regime, which launches indiscriminate attacks with barrel bombs according to HRW - 22 May 2014: Russia and China veto UN draft resolution calling for Assad's war in Syria to be referred to the ICC, ignoring support for the measure by 65 other countries and all other members of the security council - 23 May: UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite regime - 30 May: After political and diplomatic aid efforts have lethally failed, NGOs demand fresh approach to ending the Syrian conflict and warn that 'history will be unforgiving to those who turn away' - 4 June: UN says that a Security Council resolution aimed at expanding the reach of humanitarian aid in Syria is not working, while violence continues to rise
June/July 2014: 21 June: The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening and the number of people needing urgent help has reached 10.8 million, almost half of Syria's population of 22 million, UN's Ban Ki-moon says as the council members negotiate a draft resolution to boost aid access - 26 June: UN council demands end to Syrian military action in the Golan Heights - 26 June: UN aid chief Valerie Amos urges Security Council to act on Syria aid crisis - 15 July: UN Security Council authorises aid convoys to Syria without the consent of the Damascus regime, to help more than one million civilians in opposition-held areas - 24 July: First UN aid convoy enters Syria without regime consent - 27 July: Syrian Coalition's Khalid al-Ali says that gains made by rebels in various areas are a message to the international community that 'your failure to stop Assad’s barrel bomb and chemical attacks does not in any way mean that we will accept to live under tyranny and dictatorship ... using Syrians as a fuel to achieve Iran’s expansionist goals in the region'
August/September 2014: 12 August: Humanitarian workers are being frustrated by violence, bureaucracy and an obstinate regime as they try to diminish the impact of the war on civilians - 16 September: Assad atrocities outstrip Islamic State in Syria, UN panel says - 20 September 2014: UN urges global support for Iraq to fight terror, reaffirming support for its force in Golan - 24 September: As USA-led coalition's campaign against 'Islamic State' continues in Iraq and Syria, a UN Security Council committee blacklists more than a dozen foreign extremist fighters, fundraisers and recruiters tied to militant groups in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia and Yemen
October 2014: 1 October: A lack of funds is forcing the World Food Program to cut back on food parcels and vouchers for almost six million refugees and displaced people in Syria - 7 October: UN says Syrian Assad regime discloses four secret chemical weapons facilities, as UN envoy calls for urgent international response in Kobani - 15 October: Syrian Coalition's Nasr al-Hariri criticized UN’s decision to cut humanitarian aid it provides to 4.2 million Syrians ravaged by Assad’s war machine amid calls for the immediate implementation of the UN Resolution 2165 concerning the entry of aid convoys and medical supplies to all besieged areas and criticism of limiting the international strikes to 'Islamic State' targets - 30 October: UN warns that some of Syria's neighbors are at their 'breaking point', caught between a sense of duty to keep their borders open to refugees and a responsibility to their own citizens
November/December 2014: 26 November: An estimated 12.2 million Syrians need assistance because of increasing violence and deteriorating conditions, UN says - 15 December: De Mistura’s ceasefire plan must be adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter, Syrian Coalition says
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
2016: 9 February 2016: Mass deaths of detainees in Syrian Government jails amounts to crime of 'extermination', UN commission of inquiry on Syria says in its report calling on the UN security council to impose sanctions against Syrian officials in the civilian and military hierarchy responsible for or complicit in deaths, torture and disappearances in custody - 22 December 2016: Adopting a resolution with 105 in favor, 15 against and 52 abstentions, UN General Assembly voted to establish a special team to 'collect, consolidate, preserve and analyze evidence' as well as to prepare cases on war crimes and human rights abuses committed in Syria
14 September 2022 Syria could return ‘to larger-scale fighting’, UN warns: 14 September 2022: Syria could return ‘to larger-scale fighting’, UN warns, finding in new report ‘grave violations of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law’ have increased across the country, and saying 'today, Syrians face increasing and intolerable hardships, living among the ruins of this lengthy conflict. Millions are suffering and dying in displacement camps, while resources are becoming scarcer and donor fatigue is rising'
Syria/European Union relations: Syria/European Union relations
2011: 9. Mai 2011: EU-Sanktionen - 1 December 2011: EU tightens sanctions on Syria including bans in energy and financial sectors
2012: 25. Juni 2012: Die EU und Australien verschärfen ihre Sanktionen gegen Syrien - 19 November: EU says it views the National Coalition to be the 'legitimate representatives' of the Syrian people - 11 December: EU boosts status of Syrian opposition bloc
2013: 19 février 2013: Quelques modifications à l'embargo sur les armes, 'afin de fournir un soutien non létal pour la protection des civils' en Syrie - 24 March 2013: Syrian National Coalition leader al-Khatib resigns, expressing frustration at the lack of international support: 'All the destruction of Syria's infrastructure, the detention of tens of thousands of people, the forced flight of hundreds of thousands and other forms of suffering have been insufficient for the international community to take a decision to allow the people to defend themselves' - 23 avril 2013: L'Europe veut aider les rebelles avec le pétrole, pas les armer - 27 May: EU to discuss arms embargo on Syria, ending this week either helping Syrian opposition or the Assad regime - 28 May: EU ends arms embargo on Syrian opposition, maintaining stiff economic sanctions against Assad's regime - 28 May: Missing a firm decision taken by the EU Syria's opposition denounced as 'too little, too late' the EU decision to lift an arms embargo on rebels fighting the Assad regime
September 2013: 7 September: The EU calls the chemical weapons attack in Damascus a war crime and a crime against humanity, adding that it was probably carried out by the Syrian government and that a strong response is essential to make clear there is no impunity
October 2013: 13 octobre 2013: Après le naufrage au sud de Malte qui a coûté la vie à des dizaines de migrants en majorité syriens, le Premier ministre maltais Muscat a déploré que la 'Méditerranée soit en train de devenir un cimetière'
2014: 11 April 2014: With all doors rapidly closing shut, tens of thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria end up in the EU's poorest state Bulgaria
2015: 20 April 2015: Syrian Coalition regrets the ongoing failure of the international community to find a solution for the problem of displaced Syrians who are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to seek refuge in Europe
Bilateral relations of Syria: Bilateral relations of Syria
Syria/Armenia relations: Syria/Armenia relations - Armenians in Syria - Armenian diaspora in the Middle East
Syria/Australia relations: Syria/Australia relations
2015 Australia excluded from Syria peace talks after Russian objection: 16 November 2015: Australia, which is participating in airstrikes against Islamic State terrorists, excluded from Syria peace talks involving 20 countries or regional groupings, after Russian objection
October 2016 protesters against Russian military intervention in Syria gathered outside Russian embassy in Canberra: 7 October 2016: Protesters opposed to Russian military intervention in Syria gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Canberra, with some carrying placards comparing Russian regime's Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler
March 2018 Australia condemned the Syrian Assad regime for its continuing atrocities against civilians: 24 March 2018: Australia has fiercely condemned the Syrian Assad regime for its continuing atrocities against civilians, which have included bombing hospitals, using illegal chemical weapons and deliberately trying to starve a civilian population, also pushing back firmly against Russia, in a statement to the Human Rights Council in Geneva
8 September 2020 Australian women and children snatched from al-Hawl refugee camp: 8 September 2020: Australian women and children have been snatched from the al-Hawl refugee camp in north-east Syria, where families of Islamic State fighters are detained, as at least four women and 10 children, all Australian, were reportedly removed from the camp, handcuffed and driven away in a white van overnight on Saturday
Syria/Belarus relations: Syria/Belarus relations
2017 Belarus seen quietly helping Assad boost missile program: 15 September 2017: Belarus seen quietly helping Assad boost missile program, as analyst Ronen Solomon links Belarusian regime to Syrian Assad regime's military facility allegedly bombed by Israel this month
12 November 2021 tourist visas and flights from Syria, the route to Europe via Belarus: 12 November 2021: Tourist visas and flights from Syria, the route to Europe via Belarus, as travel agents in Middle East and migrants who have reached Poland describe how thousands are making the journey
13 November 2021 Syrian man found dead on Polish side of border with Belarus: 13 November 2021: Syrian man found dead on Polish side of border with Belarus, as Polish police say cause of death not determined after body discovered in woods near village of Wolka Terechowska
Syria/Canada relations: Syria/Canada relations
April 2013 UN investigation of chemical weapon use demanded: 26 April 2013: Canada's FM John Baird says no reason to doubt reports of chemical weapon use in Syria wanting to see a full UN investigation
March 2014 Canadian photojournalist killed by Assad barrel bomb: 10 March 2014: Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa was killed in a helicopter barrel bomb attack in Aleppo along with 10 other civilians and four opposition members
Syria/PR of China relations: Syria/PR of China relations
Since 2011 UN Security Council resolutions on Syria blocked and vetoed by Russia and China: Since August 2011 UN Security Council resolutions on Syria blocked and vetoed by Russia and China
2017 vetoed UN resolution over the use of chemical weapons: 1 March 2017: Vetoing 6 resp. 7 Security Council resolutions since Assad's war against the Syrian people began in 2011, China and Russia have vetoed a UN resolution to impose sanctions on the Syrian Assad regime over the use of chemical weapons
Since March 2020 Chinese coronavirus pandemic in Syria: Since March 2020 Chinese coronavirus pandemic in Syria, reported to have spread to the country on 14 March 2020, based on indirect evidence from Pakistan, where among confirmed 14 imported COVID-19 cases some arrived from Syria, and as Syria is considered especially vulnerable to the epidemic due to ongoing Assad's, Russian and Iranian regime's war against the Syrian people and dire humanitarian situation
Syria/Cyprus relations: Syria/Cyprus relations
July 2019: 1 July 2019: Apparent Syrian Assad regime's air-defense missile with Russian writing on it crashes in northern Cyprus, setting hills ablaze
Syria/Egypt relations: Syria/Egypt relations - 30 August 2012: Assad's delegation walked out after Egyptian President Morsi called for solidarity with the Syrian opposition at Tehran NAM summit - 7 February 2013: At the summit of 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Egyptian in Cairo president Morsi urges Assad regime not to put its interests above those of the nation - 16 June 2013: President Morsi announces closure of embassies in Damascus and Cairo, calls for the imposition of a no-fly zone against the Assad regime and demands that Hezbollah must leave Syria
Syria/France relations: Syria/France relations
2012: 30. Mai 2012: Frankreichs Präsident Hollande will Russland und China von Notwendigkeit von Strafmassnahmen überzeugen und schliesst Militäreinsatz in Syrien mit Zustimmung der UN nicht aus - 24 août: La France évoque l'hypothèse d'une zone d’exclusion aérienne en Syrie - 13 November: France the first western country to recognise the united Syrian opposition as the only representative of the Syrian people - 15 novembre: La France va demander à l'UE la levée de l'embargo sur 'les armes défensives' pour aider l'opposition en Syrie - 17 November: Mounzir Makhous named opposition envoy to France after talks in Paris
2013: 24 February 2013: French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded by shrapnel from an exploding shell while covering the operations of an armed opposition group near Idlib last month, died of his injuries in Turkey - 14 March: France and Britain are prepared to arm Syrian opposition, Laurent Fabius says - 29 March and its truth: France backtracks on arming Syria's opposition, changing course from just two weeks ago, according to latest comments by Hollande - 5 June 2013: French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says there is 'no doubt' that Assad’s regime has used chemical weapons after tests confirm traces of the deadly nerve agent sarin on samples taken from the country - 5 June: French foreign minister says Syrian resistance fighters need arms - 2 September: Assad forces carried out a 'massive and coordinated' chemical attack on August 21 near Damascus posing a major threat to national and global security, according to a declassified French intelligence report - 10 September: France says that a Russian proposal to have Assad hand over his chemical weapons arsenal was acceptable only if it came after a UN Security Council resolution spelling out consequences if he failed to comply - 20 September: President Hollande suggests that France is ready to begin supplying weapons to rebels fighting Assad regime - 30 September: French authorities investigates French assets of Assad's uncle
2014/2015: 19 April: As Assad airstrikes targeting Syrians and violence in the country continue four French journalists free after 10-month hostage ordeal - 20 April 2014: Indications that Assad still using chemical weapons, president Hollande says - 7 September 2015: Syrian Coalition's Mustafa Osso criticizes France's government attributing the refugee crisis to Islamic State terrorists and its ignoring the real cause of terrorism, which is the Assad regime and its allied sectarian militias - 14 November 2015: Syrian Coalition strongly condemns Paris Islamic State's terrorist attacks, saying that 'the Syrian people, who are daily experiencing Assad and ISIS terrorism, stand in solidarity with the French nation against all kinds of terrorism'
Syria/Germany relations: Syria/Germany relations
Syrians in Germany: Syrians in Germany refers to Syrian immigrants to Germany, as well as their descendants, including Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Assyrians as well as smaller minorities from Syria, the number of Syrians in Germany is estimated at around 360,000 people in December 2015 and consists mainly of refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people
2013: 4 September 2013: A Hezbollah official has said Bashar al-Assad ordered poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21, according to German spy agency - 18 September 2013: Germany exported 111 tons of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document
2015: 20 August 2015: Syrian Coalition calls for sit-in in Berlin on 2nd anniversary of Ghouta chemical massacre, to show solidarity with August 2015 Douma massacre victims, to pay homage to the victims of the 2013 Ghouta massacre and to all victims of Assad’s war on the Syrian people, and to decry the international silence and passiveness
2016: 2 April 2016: Syrian Coalition’s representative to Germany Bassam al-Abdullah calls upon the Friends of the Syrian People Group and sponsors of the political process to deter the Assad regime’s repeated breaches of the ceasefire agreement, especially after the horrible massacre regime forces committed in Deir al-Assafir
March 2018: 7 March 2018: Syrian refugees and German politicians condemned a visit to Damascus by members of anti-immigrant 'Alternative for Germany' party, also meeting with Syria’s Grand Mufti Hassoun, who in 2011 threatened Europe and the USA with suicide bombers - 7 March 2018: A German court sentenced seven men and one woman to four to 10 years in jail for founding a neo-Nazi terrorist group responsible for attempted murder and bomb attacks on refugee shelters and politicians in Saxony
Syria/India relations: Syria/India relations - 13 June 2012: India can halt Russian arms flowing to Syria, activists say - 12 December: Three-year-old Indian boy Abdul Rahman Mohammed, boarding a vehicle with his mother, was run over by a speeding car in the Saudi capital Riyadh
Syria/Iran relations: Syria/Iran relations - Iran's involvement in the Syrian civil war
2012: Iranian support for Assad regime in the Syrian civil war since 2011 - Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline - NZZ 16. Mai 2012: Syrien erhält weiterhin illegale Waffenlieferungen aus dem Iran - 5 août: Une vidéo montre des Iraniens aux mains de la brigade Al-Baraa de l'Armée syrienne libre affirmant '48 miliciens iraniens étaient en mission de reconnaissance à Damas' - 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 - NZZ 20. September: Iran unterstützt laut Geheimdienstbericht Assad Regime in grossem Stil mit Waffen und Soldaten
2013: 1 February 2013: Washington accuses Tehran of sending personnel to help President al-Assad's forces in their fight against opposition - 3 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib has met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran in first talks raising hope to a possible breakthrough - 16 June: As positive reactions emerge from governments in France, the UK and the US following Hassan Rohani's victory in Iran's election, the Syrian National Coalition calls on Iran’s president-elect to reconsider the country’s position on Assad's war against democracy and his people - 16 June 2013: Iran to send 4,000 troops to help Syria’s Assad - 27 June 2013: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy - 25 septembre: Plus de cent officiers supérieurs de l'Armée syrienne libre ont signé un appel à "boycotter" toute conférence sur la Syrie impliquant le régime iranien - 4 November: Iran has repeatedly denied it has troops fighting in Syria, but Assad's media say that an Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guards was killed near Damascus
2014: 21 February 2014: Iran steps up support for Assad regime providing elite teams to gather intelligence and train troops along with deliveries of munitions and equipment from Russia
2015: 28 March: On the Syrian Golan, unlike in Yemen, an Iranian offensive fails, as joint operation by Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards, and Syrian forces, designed to clear opposition near Israel’s border, grinds to halt - 17 September 2015: Under relentless assault led by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Hezbollah militias, the medical staff working in the town of Zabadani sent an urgent appeal for help to humanitarian and medical organizations to protect what remained of civilians and medical personnel trapped inside the town
2016: 21 March 2016: Media in Iran broadcast Assad’s words on Iran being considered the chief supporter for his war against the Syrian people since 2011, including support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC, special IRGC unit Quds Force and militias employed by the Iranian administration - 4 April 2016: The Syrian Coalition says that the Iranian regime’s announcement that it sent troops from its special 65th brigade unit to Syria provides yet further proof of Iran’s attempts to undermine efforts aimed at reaching a political solution in Syria - 16 May 2016: 1,200 Iranian 'revolutionary guards' killed in Syria in past four years, according to IRGC commander Tabrizi - 20 June 2916: A coalition of rebel and FSA groups has captured four militants affiliated with the Iranian-backed foreign militias fighting alongside regime forces in southern rural of Aleppo
8 December 2020 Iran's Rohani urges Assad to confront Israel 'until liberation of all occupied lands': 8 December 2020: During a meeting with Assad regime's FM Mekdad, Iran's Rohani urges Assad to confront Israel 'until liberation of all occupied lands', saying his country will continue to 'support' Syria
Syria/Iraq relations: Syria/Iraq relations - Euphrates river - 11 July: Syria's ambassador to Iraq defects from the Assad regime - 20 July: Democratic forces seize control of Syria's border crossings with Iraq - 8 September: Mortar rounds or rockets fired from Syria killed a young Iraqi girl and wounded four people in a border town in western Iraq - 23 December 2013: Iraqi crude from Egypt was Assad's secret lifeline in the last nine months, documents reveal - 26 June 2014: Al-Maliki confirms and welcomes Assad airstrikes carried out against ISIS in Iraq
Syria/Israel relations: Syria/Israel relations
June 1967 'Six-Day War': June 1967 'Six-Day War' fought by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, known at the time as the United Arab Republic, Jordan, and Syria
Since 1967: Purple Line - ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six Day War
October 1973 Yom Kippur War by a coalition of Arab states against Israel: October 1973 Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel - October 1973 Syrian attacks on the Golan Heights - Since 1974 UNDOF Zone - 4 September 1975 Sinai Interim Agreement signed by Egypt and Israel - 17 September 1978 Camp David Accords signed by Egypt and Israel
Since 1974 Golan Heights: Since 1974 Golan Heights, Syrian attacks, defeat and Israeli territory - Since 1974 UNDOF Zone - December 1981 Israeli Golan Heights Law
2012: 10. Juni 2012: Israel: 'Russland im schlimmsten Fall Mittäter in Syrien' - 11 November 2012: In response to mortar fire of Assad's army in the Golan Heights area Israeli troops fired warning shots - 18 novembre 2012: Israël fait feu vers la Syrie après des tirs sur un véhicule militaire - 4 December 2012: UN chief accuses Syria of violating Golan accord - 20 December 2012: A report by two Israeli journalists has been picked up by the Assad regime as proof that the insurgents are siding with the Israeli 'enemy'
Since 2012: Since 2012 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people
January-March 2013: 30/31 January 2013: Israel conducted an airstrike inside Syria near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks with weapons bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon while Assad's army (and television) says an Israeli airstrike targeted a military research centre in Jamraya, causing large-scale material damage and killing two people - 1 February: Israeli air raid in Syria struck surface-to-air missiles and a nearby military complex suspected of housing chemical agents on the outskirts of Damascus, as Israel feared the weapons would be transferred to Hezbollah, a US official said - 24 March: Israel's army fires anti-tank missile at Syrian army post after coming under fire for second time in 12 hours and vows an 'immediate' answer to 'every violation of Israeli sovereignty and shooting from the Syrian side'
April/May 2013: 29 April 2013: Israeli official says intelligence services worldwide have evidence of Assad's chemical weapons use - 'these are not intelligence estimates' - 4 May 2013: USA reports quoting unnamed officials say, that Israeli warplanes have launched an air strike in Syria, likely targeting a weapons site - 5 May: Israeli missiles struck a research center near the Syrian capital Damascus - 21 May: Israeli troops shot at a military vehicle across the Syrian frontier on Tuesday in response to gunfire that struck its forces in the Golan Heights - 31 May: Bashar al-Assad talks of new front with Israel
June-December 2013: 6 June: Israel reacts angrily to Austria's withdrawal from Golan Heights due to clashes in Syria - 14 July: Israel reportedly targeted advanced anti-ship cruise missiles near Latakia in an air attack on July 5 - 18 août: Israël réplique après des tirs d'obus syriens - 21 August: Israel says Syria regime used chemical weapons - 22 August: Israeli intelligence backs reports of latest chemical weapons attack in Syria as intelligence minister criticizes international community over inaction - 28 August: Israeli intelligence 'intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack' - 26 September 2013: We have weapons that can blind Israel in seconds, Assad says - 1 November: Israel reportedly destroyed Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, targeting Russian-made SA-125 missiles - 10 December: Golan bomb was activated by Assad forces, Israeli army says after a bomb detonated near the border fence and damaged an IDF jeep
2014: 27 January: Israel Air Force bombed a Syrian base in the Latakia airport, Lebanese media reports - 16 March: Syrian opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli military support, wanting Israel to enforce a no-fly zone - 19 March: Israel strikes Assad's army targets that 'enabled and aided' Tuesday's attack on IDF troops which left four Israeli soldiers wounded - 28 March: Israeli army shoots two people near Syria border trying to damage border infrastructure - 2 June: Israel forces responded with artillery after Syrian fire in the northern Golan Heights - 23 June: In response to a cross-border missile shooting which killed an Israeli boy and wounded his father and two other civilians, Israel Air Force struck nine targets belonging to the Syrian military, among them command centers - 7 July: Israel fires into Syria after mortar shell hits Golan - 9 July 2014: Syrian-made M302 long-range rocket fired by Hamas at Hadera - 13 July: Mortar fired from Syria hits Israeli side of the Golan Heights - 23 September: IDF shoots down Syrian fighter plane over Golan after infiltrating Israeli airspace - 8 December 2014: Hezbollah drones, anti-aircraft missiles destroyed in alleged IAF attack, says Syrian opposition
2015: 12 January: An Israeli citizen who tried to join the rebels in Syria was captured and tortured by Bashar Assad's forces - 27 January: IDF retaliates after two suspected Hezbollah rockets fired from Syria explode on Golan Heights, sending locals and some 1,000 visitors to the Mount Hermon ski site fleeing for cover - 28 January: Following Golan rocket attacks Israel Air Force struck Assad's army artillery targets - 24 April: On Israel's Independence Day, Free Syrian Army sends warm wishes - 4 May: Two UN peacekeepers wounded by Syrian mortars on Golan Heights - 22/23 June: Syrian war casualty killed as Israeli Druze attack IDF ambulance - 21 August: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards behind Thursday’s rocket fire on northern Israel from Syria, Israel's army says
2016: 3 May 2016: Druze resident of Israel Awidat, who disappeared in Damascus in 2004, freed after 12 years in Syrian prison
2017: 2017 Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line incidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011
13 January 2017: Missiles reportedly hit weapons depot at Mazzeh airbase, also killing high-ranking Assad regime officials, and blamed on Israel by the regime threatening 'repercussions' after 'flagrant' attack - 10 February 2017: Refugees in Syria will soon be receiving donated winter supplies, but they won’t know that the coats and boots keeping them warm came from Israel, called 'enemy state' by Assad - 17 March 2017: IAF 'Arrow’ battery intercepts Syrian missile after Assad regime fired three anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets - 26 April 2017: The Israel Air Force destroyed around 100 Syrian missiles in its attack last month on weapons in Syria, many of which were due to be delivered to Hezbollah - 27 April 2017: Israeli missile downs Syrian drone that entered Israeli airspace over Golan Heights - 28 April 2017: Four cargo planes originating from Iran landed at airport outside Damascus just hours before Syria accused Israel of attacking a military compound nearby - 16 October 2017: In response to Assad regime's fire at Israeli planes on a routine reconnaissance, Israeli army attacked an anti-aircraft battery in Syria near Damascus on Monday, taking the radar out of operation
November 2017: 4 November 2017: Israeli Druze lawmaker Akram Hasson said Friday that four of the nine men killed in a car bombing in the Syrian village of Hader in the Golan Heights are members of his extended family - 11 November 2017: Israel's Patriot missile system downs drone reportedly belonging to the Assad regime on an intelligence gathering mission and entering the demilitarized zone - 18 November 2017: After identifying Assad regime construction in a military outpost in the demilitarized zone, the Israeli army fired a shell as a warning shot at regime's forces across the border
December 2017: 25 December 2017: Syrian, Iran-backed forces closing in on Israel border area, as fighters, including Hezbollah terrorists, are helping Assad's army regain territory from rebels close to the Golan Heights - 30 December 2017: Assad regime regains control as Syrian rebels abandon area bordering Golan Heights
February 2018: 15 February 2018: Israeli Foreign Ministry fears poison gas may leak into Israel if the Assad regime uses chemical weapons against rebels near the Golan Heights, and has reported warned of a punishing response should such a situation unfold
11/12 July 2018: 12 July 2018: After Assad regime's UAV was downed over the Sea of Galilee, Israeli Air Force strikes Assad's army posts near border in response to drone infiltration
24/25 July 2018: 24 July 2018: Two Patriot missiles fired at Sukhoi aircraft that penetrated two kilometers into Israeli territory, one of the pilots reported killed, according to IDF, after trying to contact Assad's pilot - 25 July 2018: Syria says response to fighter jet’s downing 'will come soon enough’ - 25 July 2018: Two rockets from Syria, one of them exploding, landed in the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel near crowded tourist beach, in what the army said was spillover from the war in Syria, as Israeli aircrafts targeted southern Syria Wednesday evening in response
August 2018: 18 August 2018: Syrian military intelligence officer Habib in charge of the army’s 'Palestine Department' and responsible for Assad's struggle against Israel, was killed in the country’s northwest
January 2019: 20 January 2019: Israeli military said that missiles fired towards the northern Golan Heights were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system on Sunday
March 2019: 13 March 2019: IDF says it exposed new Hezbollah cell in Syrian Golan Heights
9 September 2019 Iran-backed rockets at Israel: 9 September 2019: Iran-backed militia in Syria, operating under the command of Iran’s Quds Force, fired several rockets toward northern Israel in the predawn hours of Monday morning
November 2019 Assad says Israel behind all anti-government forces: 1 November 2019: Syria's dictator Assad says Israel behind all anti-government forces in his war against the Syrian people, also saying modern Israel does not exist and theorizing that raid on terror leader Baghdadi did not actually take place
19 November 2019 rockets at Israel and response: 19 November 2019: Israel’s anti-missile defense system intercepted four rockets fired from neighboring Syria toward the Golan Heights, as SOHR, citing Syrian sources, said that around five missiles hit sites south and southwest of Damascus in areas from which four rockets were launched minutes earlier at Israel
24 February 2020 rocket fire on Israel by Iran-linked terrorists also in Syria: 24 February 2020: 6 Iran-linked fighters were killed in Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Syria late Sunday night in response to several waves of rocket fire on southern Israel throughout the evening, according to SOHR and 'Times of Israel' - 24 February 2020: IDF closes roads, train line near Gaza amid fears of fresh fighting, as Palestinian Islamic Jihad vows revenge after Israeli airstrike kills 2 of its members in Syria
28 February 2020 Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts in the Golan Heights: 28 February 2020: Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts in Quneitra, and the nearby towns of al-Qataniyah and al-Hurriyet along border in the Golan Heights, as tensions rose along the border following an earlier reported strike
10 April 2020 IDF accuses Syria of helping Hezbollah set up on Golan: 10 April 2020: IDF accused the Syrian dictator Assad's army of helping the Hezbollah terror group establish a permanent military presence on the Golan Heights, releasing video footage showing a senior Syrian officer visiting the region
3 August 2020 Syrian cell with bomb on Israeli territory killed: 3 August 2020: Syrian cell entered Israeli territory to plant bomb in unmanned army post in the area of Tel Fares, as army confirms all four would-be bombers killed, also indicating Israel may retaliate against Damascus, as incident comes as military braces for attack by Hezbollah, which is seeking revenge and as verdict looms in 2005 murder of Lebanese ex-PM Hariri, with Hezbollah members on trial in absentia facing ruling at Hague tribunal, after lengthy trial based almost entirely on phone records
22 April 2021 Syrian missile fired at IAF jet, Israeli strike near Damascus: 22 April 2021: Syrian missile fired at an IAF jet, missed its target and landed near Dimona. Israeli interceptor failed to shoot it down. Syria reported that an Israeli strike near Damascus injured four soldiers
8 June 2021 Syrian regime forces reportedly intercepted an Israeli missile attack over Damascus: 8 June 2021: Syrian regime forces intercepted an Israeli missile attack over Damascus on Tuesday night, state media reported, after earlier, state media said large explosions were heard
9 April 2023 Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets in response to rockets: 9 April 2023: Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets in response to 6 rockets launched towards Israeli-controlled territory overnight, as Israel said artillery and drone strikes hit the rocket launchers and were followed by airstrikes against a Syrian army compound, military radar systems and artillery postssearch centre, adding 'an arms depot belonging to Lebanese Hezbollah forces in the military airport of Dabaa, in the south-western sector of Homs, was destroyed'
Syria/Italy relations: Syria/Italy relations - 14 September 2013: Nearly 500 boat people, mainly Syrian, have been rescued off of Italian coasts in the past 24 hours - 17 September: Two boats carrying around 270 mainly Syrian asylum seekers landed on Italian shores - 17 October: Syrian refugees stranded at Milan rail hub
Syria/Jordan relations: Syria/Jordan relations - Yarmouk River
2011: 14 November 2011: Jordan calls on Assad to resign - 28 July 2012: Assad's troops kill six-year-old fleeing into Jordan
2012: Zaatari refugee camp - 29 July 2012: Jordan opens Syria refugee camp at Za'atari - 8 August: Jordan confirms hosting defecting Syria PM Riyad Hijab - 11 August 2012: Syrian-Jordanian fighting breaks out after Syrian troops reportedly fire on fleeing refugees - 20. August: Jordanisches Grenzgebiet erneut von Syrien aus beschossen
2013: 1 February 2013: New Syrian refugee arrivals spark expanded ACTED intervention
2014: 27 May 2014: Jordan gives Assad regime's ambassador 24 hours to leave after violation of diplomatic protocol, in response Assad regime expels Jordan's ambassador
Syria/North Korea relations: Syria/North Korea relations
2012/2013: 3 July 2012: North Korea violating sanctions against Assad regime, according to UN report - 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
2017: 9 May 2017: Assad sends 'Thank You' to North Korea's Kim Jong Un, pointing to 'harmony' of positions between the two regimes
2018: 2 February 2018: North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors which also said Pyongyang's regime violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017 and ballistic missile and chemical weapons programmes may have benefited
Syria/Lebanon relations: Syria/Lebanon relations
1976-2005 Syrian occupation of Lebanon and assassinations since 2004: Syrian occupation of Lebanon 1976-2005 - Lebanon bombings and assassinations since 2004 - On 14 February 2005 the former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri was assassinated along with 21 others in Beirut - UN International Independent Investigation Commission 2005-2009 - Special Tribunal for Lebanon since 2009 - 27 December 2013 assassination of former finance minister Mohamad Chatah
Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon since 2011: Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon June 2011 – present - Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Lebanon
2012: 13. Mai 2012: Kämpfe in Syrien greifen auf Libanon über - Zwei Tote bei Gefechten zwischen Gegnern und Anhängern Asads - 7. Juli: Das syrische Militär hat mehrere Dörfer im Norden Libanons beschossen und drei Menschen getötet und zahlreiche weitere verletzt - 10 juillet: Des obus du côté syrien s'abattent au Liban après échange de tirs - 11 août: Le patron de la Sécurité syrienne soupçonné de fomenter des attentats au Liban - 20 October: Lebanese opposition politicians blame President Assad for bombing that kills senior security official Wissam al-Hassan and seven others in Beirut
2013: 5 February 2013: A Lebanese judge issues arrest warrant for top Syrian intelligence official Ali Mamlouk for his alleged involvement in bomb plot - 24 February: One killed in fierce Syria-Lebanon border fighting as Lebanese president Sleiman demanded that Syria 'refrain from firing towards Lebanese territory' - 19 March: Assad's Russian warplanes bomb Lebanon border area targeting Syrian opposition in Lebanese Arsal town - 3 April: Syrian Assad jet fires missile into Lebanon border town Arsal - 24 April: As fierce clashes continue in the border villages of al Qusayr, there are growing fears that Lebanon is being drawn further into the Syrian conflict - 12 June: After a helicopter gunship attacked the eastern town of Arsal, Lebanon army warns will hit back against any new Assad raids - 20 June: As Iraq and Lebanon are alarmed at spreading Syria war, Lebanon's president urges his country's Hezbollah movement to pull its fighters out of the conflict - 3 August: Near the border with Lebanon an Assad warplane has killed at least nine people including six members of the same family and wounded nine others, targeting the opposition-held Syrian town of Yabroud just across the border from the Lebanese town of Arsal - 30 August: Lebanon on Friday charged five men, including a Sunni Muslim cleric close to the Syrian government and a Syrian military officer, over bomb attacks on two mosques in the northern city of Tripoli last week that killed at least 42 people
2014: 17 January 2014: Assad rockets kill seven people in Lebanese border town of Arsal wounding at least 15 - 27 January: Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceed 890,000 - 20 March: After clashes with rebels near border kill 12 people and wound more than 40, Assad regime closes crossing near Wadi Khaled - 23 March: One person was killed and 10 people wounded in clashes in Beirut between Assad loyalists and opponents - 3 April: The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon has surpassed one million, UN says
2015: 24 February 2015: Assad plotting to assassinate Michel Samaha, Lebanon's Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi says
2016: 5 September 2016: Lebanon court indicted two Syrian Assad regime's intelligence officers in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, which killed more than 40 people
December 2017: 2 December 2017: Lebanese PM Saad Hariri charged that the Syrian Assad regime which he blames for his father’s assassination in 2005 also wants him killed, also assessing that the regime’s military successes against rebels in the Syrian conflict were victories for Putin's Russian regime and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani rather than their allied Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad
27 December 2020 Syrians refugees flee Lebanon camp after tents set on fire: 27 December 2020: Syrians refugees flee Lebanon camp after tents set on fire
Syria/Morocco relations: 16. Juli 2012: Marokko weist syrischen Botschafter aus
Syria/Norway relations: Syria/Norway relations - 11 October 2013: Chemical weapons watchdog OPCW wins Nobel Peace Prize for Syrian mission - 11 October: Syrian opposition calls Peace Prize 'premature'
Syria/Pakistan relations: Syria/Pakistan relations
July 2013 Pakistani Taliban sending fighters to Syria: 13 July 2013: Pakistani Taliban sending fighters to Syria, as Syrian situation is inviting for Taliban and their Salafi Arab supporters
September 2013 Malala Yousafzai backs schooling for Syrian refugee children: 23 September 2013: Malala Yousafzai backs schooling for Syrian refugee children
12 March 2020 coronavirus found in Pakistan coming from Syria: 12 March 2020: A number of Pakistanis, travelling from Syria, reportedly tested positive, as Syrian Assad regime insists that there are no cases of coronavirus in Syria
Syria/Palestinian territories relations: Palestinian refugee camps in Syria - Palestinian refugees as part of the Syrian refugee crisis
17 January 2014 Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk: Yarmouk Camp - 17 January 2014: Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, reportedly killing at least 9 people and wounding many - 18 January 2014: Damascus Yarmouk refugee camp receives aid for first time in months after reports that people have died of hunger and lack of medical care - 28 December 2014: 2,589 Palestinian-Syrians had been killed since March 2011, rights group says
2015: 31 January 2015: Palestinian refugees in Syria again cut off from emergency aid - 19 February 2015: 166 people died due to hunger and lack of food and medical care in the Yarmouk refugee camp, rights group says, adding that 2,651 Palestinian refugees died either by regime snipers, indiscriminate shelling, under torture in Assad’s prisons, or because of hunger since 2011 - 27 March 2015: Palestinians in Mideast find their position more precarious in wake of Syria war
2016: 17 April 2016: UNRWA says, that up to 10,000 residents of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the south of the Syrian capital have gone without food or water for more than a week as battle rages in Damascus
2017: 9 May 2017: The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria says it has documented 1,600 cases of enforced disappearance among Palestinian refugees in the prisons of the Assad regime since 2011 - 1 August 2017: A total of 3,542 Palestinian-Syrians, including 463 women, have been killed at the hands of the Assad regime since March 2011, rights group says
19 October 2022 Hamas delegation meets Syrian officials in Damascus for first time since 2012: 19 October 2022: Hamas delegation meets Syrian officials in Damascus for first time since 2012, as the meeting comes 10 years after the Syrian authorities expelled Hamas' leaders for not supporting the regime, though the organization says it does not plan to return to Damascus on the same scale as before
Syria/Qatar relations: Syria/Qatar relations - 28 March 2013: Syria opposition opens embassy in Qatar
Syria/Russia relations: Syria/Russia relations
Since 1971: Since 1971 military, economic and political cooperation and support, Russia became Syria's main arms supplier
2011: Russia plays a strategic role in the Syrian civil war since 2011
2012: 30 January 2012: Russian arms shipments bolster Syria's embattled Assad - 19. März 2012: Stark gestiegene Waffenimporte aus Rußland - 10 June: Russia will continue to oppose attempts by the UN Security Council to sanction military intervention in Syria, FM Lavrov says - 10. Juni: Israel: 'Russland im schlimmsten Fall Mittäter in Syrien' - 9. Juli: Russland kündigt an, keine Waffen mehr an Syrien zu liefern, bis sich die Lage dort beruhigt hat - 11 July: Russia sends a large flotilla of 11 warships to Syria in show of support to Assad - 20. Juli: Russische Regierung stoppt angeblich erneut seine Waffenlieferungen an Assad, diesmal im Juni fast angelieferte, dann dementierte Kampfhelikopter - 24 August: Russia's Polonium-Putin regime says Syria's Assad regime has guaranteed it will not deploy its arsenal of chemical weapons - 13 December: Syrian government 'losing control', Russian envoy says - 20 December: Russia's Polonium-Putin recognizes need for change in Syria - 23 December 2012: Russian advisers deployed with surface-to-air systems bolster Assad's forces and complicate outcome of any future strikes
2013: 16 January 2013: Bashar al-Assad and his family are living on a warship guarded by the Russian navy, reports say - 23 January: Russians flee Syrian conflict on planes from Beirut - 27 January: PM Medvedev says Assad's chances of keeping power are getting 'smaller and smaller' as war rages - 3 February: Syrian National Coalition's Mouaz al-Khatib has met the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran in first talks raising hope to a possible breakthrough - 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 - 27 June: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy - 11 July: Syria opposition denies Russian chemical attack allegation as Russia blocks a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for a stalled UN chemical weapons investigation team to be allowed to visit Syria
2014: 17 January 2014: Russia steps up military supplies to Assad's regime, including armored vehicles, drones and guided bombs
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
September 2018: 18 September 2018: A Novichok-Russian military aircraft Ilyushin IL-20, with 15 aboard, was successfully downed by a Syrian Assad regime's S-200 missile, after an Assad regime's facility linked to its chemical weapons program was bombed on Monday night, triggering regime's air defenses regularly accused of exaggerating its interception capabilities - 21 September 2018: The Israeli report into the downing a Russian regime's plane off the coast of Syria during an Israeli airstrike against a weapons facility near Lattakia, used to store and transfer advanced munitions to Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies, on Monday shows that Syrian regime's anti-aircraft batteries fired dozens of barrages indiscriminately for 40 minutes, long after the Israeli planes had returned to their base
29 June 2022 Syria's Assad regime will recognize 'independence and sovereignty' of Ukraine’s east: 29 June 2022: Syria's Assad regime said it will recognize the 'independence and sovereignty' of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions and contacts will be established to set up diplomatic relations, coming after Assad met with a joint delegation from both regions in Damascus, as earlier in June Putin regime claimed to have taken control of 97% of one of the two provinces that make up Ukraine’s Donbas, bringing the Kremlin closer to its goal of fully capturing the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories. Assad is a strong ally of Russia's Putin regime, which joined Assad’s war against the Syrian people in September 2015 helping tip the balance of power in favor of dictatorship
Syria/Spain relations: Syria/Spain relations
2014: 30 March 2014: Spanish journalists freed in Syria after six-month ordeal
2017: 4 February 2017: Lawyers representing the sister, who is a Spanish national, of a Syrian man alleged to have been tortured to death in a detention center in Damascus in 2013 have launched a criminal complaint against members of the Assad regime security forces in Spain's national court in Madrid
Syria/Sweden relations: Syria/Sweden relations - 22 February 2015: Swedish reporter says freed after being held by Assad regime forces
Syria/Switzerland relations: 15 February 2012: As the Assad regime seeks to crush the nearly year-long rebellion, Switzerland is closing its embassy in Damascus - Swiss embassy closed 15 February 2012 - 11. Januar 2013: Die Schweiz fordert mit Unterstützung von 52 Staaten, daß der Internationale Strafgerichtshof die Vorwürfe von Kriegsverbrechen in Syrien untersucht - 2 September 2013: Syria sought WMD material in Switzerland, Swiss officials say
Syria/Tunisia relations: Syria/Tunisia relations: Tunesien ruft Mitte August 2011 Botschafter aus Syrien zurück
Syria/Turkey relations: Syria/Turkey relations - Euphrates river
2012: 15. März 2012: Zwei türkische Journalisten in der Gewalt von Assads Geheimdienst - 26. März: Türkei schliesst Botschaft in Syrien - 10. April: Türkeis Ministerpräsident Erdogan verurteilt die Schüsse auf Flüchtlinge an der türkisch-syrischen Grenze als 'klare Grenzverletzung' durch Syrien - 23 June: Syrian military says it downed Turkish fighter jet - 25 June: Turkey says that Syria shot down its military aircraft in international airspace - meeting of NATO allies on Tuesday - 25 June: Turkey says Syria fired on one of its planes that was taking part in a rescue operation for a warplane shot down by Syrian forces - 2 July: Ongoing tensions between Turkey and Syria, as Ankara says that it scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to the border - 3 July: Assad 'regrets' F-4 jet's downing - 20 July: Democratic forces seize Turkey and Iraq border posts, celebrations in Aleppo, fightings in Damascus - 7 September: At least 61 people are reported to have died after a boat carrying mainly Arab immigrants sank off the Turkish coast - 8 September: Turkish captain charged over the capsizing of a boat carrying mostly Arab refugees which left 61 dead, mostly women and children - 22. September: Türkei stationiert schwere Waffen an Grenze zu Syrien nach Artilleriefeuer und Schußwunden türkischer Zivilisten - 4 October: In response to a mortar attack from Syrian territory that killed family of five in border town of Akcakale Turkish armed forces have launched artillery attacks on a Syrian area near its border - 5 October: Turkey's parliament has authorised cross-border military action against Syria, if deemed necessary by the government - 8 octobre: Pour un autre jour consécutif l'armée turque continue de répondre coup pour coup aux tirs syriens - 9 October: NATO makes plans to defend Turkey from Syria attacks - 11 October: The Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Turkey was carrying 'illegal cargo', according to Turkey's foreign minister - 14 October: Assad regime bans Turkish passenger flights from Syrian airspace - 14 October: Turkey bans all Syrian flights over its territory - 15 November: Seeing the new Syrian opposition coalition as legitimate representative of people the Turkish foreign minister calls on Muslim countries to recognise this coalition - 4 December: Nato is set to approve the deployment of Patriot missile interceptors to defend Turkey's border with Syria - 5 December: Nato approves Patriot missiles for Turkey - 15 December: Syrian Scuds 'land near Turkish border' - 2012 Syrian–Turkish border clashes
January-March 2013: 4 January: Nato deploying Patriot missiles to Turkey-Syria border - 12 February 2013: At least 12 people killed and dozens wounded by explosion at Cilvegozu border crossing in southern Hatay province - 24 February: Turkey says will not remain silent on Syria 'crimes' - 27 March: The Istanbul Symphony Orchestra performed March 25 in a concert at Istanbul’s Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall, organized to draw attention to the human tragedy in Syria
May/June 2013: 1 May: Turkey investigates use of chemical weapons in Syria - 9 May 2013: In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Ann Curry, Turkey's PM Erdogan charges the Assad regime with the use of chemical weapons against its people, saying the regime has crossed red line - Reyhanli bombings 11 May 2013 - 12 May 2013: After two car bombs exploded in the town of Reyhanli near the border, killing 43 people and wounding 140 others, Turkish officials blame the attack on a group linked to Syrian Assad regime - 13 May: Turkey says world must act against Assad regime after bombings - 16 May: At a joint news conference Turkish PM Erdogan und US president Obama call for Syria's Assad to resign - 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
July 2013: 26 juillet: Un homme a été tué et ses trois enfants blessés lorsqu'un obus de mortier tiré de Syrie a atteint Ceylanpinar à la frontière en face de Rass al-Ain, où des combats entre un groupe kurde et des djihadistes ont été signalés ces dix derniers jours
October 2013: 14. Oktober 2013: 'Ein Mörder, der die Waffe abgibt, wird dadurch nicht unschuldig', sagt der türkische Aussenminister Ahmet Davutoglu über Assads Regime, Assads Teilnahme an der geplanten Syrien Konferenz und kritisiert auch den UN-Sicherheitsrat
2014: 23 March: Assad regime's jet shot down near Turkish border after it violated Turkish air space - 31 March: Turkish military fires into Syria after rocket hits mosque next to a refugee camp, injuring a Syrian woman - 4 April: Turkey returns artillery fire into Syria after shells hit in Yayladadi in Hatay province - 15 May: A car bomb kills at least 29 civilians, including five women and three children, and wounding dozens more on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Salama border crossing with Turkey - 20/21 September: Fleeing Islamic State, 60,000 Syrian Kurds cross into Turkey as Kurdish fighters rush to Syria to stand with brethren against IS - 22 September: Thousands of civilians continue to flock towards the Turkish border to escape ISIS’s onslaught on Ayn al-Arab, as Syrian Coalition coordinates relief aid for refugees - 26/27 September: Turkey's Erdogan signals more active role in anti-IS fight, calling for no-fly zone over Syria - 11 October: USA says Turkey will train moderate Syrian rebels but presses for details
2015: 20 February: Turkey says Syrian opposition groups will be trained and equipped by a joint USA-Turkey program also to fight against Assad regime - 3 April: Turkey accuses the Assad regime of harboring training camps for terrorists, which carried out several operations over the past few days, including the killing of prosecutor of Istanbul - 16 May: Turkey says shot down Syrian helicopter that had violated its airspace - 25 November 2015: Around 1,700 Syrian Turkmen have arrived in southern Turkey over the last three days, a local governor said, as refugees continue to flee regime attacks backed by Russian air strikes - 29 December 2015: 126 Sunni fighters evacuated to Turkey in a UN-led militant swap arranged by regional powers
2017: 17 March 2017: Syrian Coalition presents Turkish authorities with legal memorandum asking for prosecution of Assad regime pilot Sufhan currently held by Turkey, saying that the pilot is involved in carrying out massacres against Syrian civilians as he was on a bombing mission in Idlib province - 11 October 2017: Syrian film-maker Bayazid working on a movie detailing the Assad regime’s abuses in the notorious Tadmur prison in Palmyra has regained consciousness after a suspected assassination attempt in Istanbul, the second such attack on opposition activists in Turkey in less than a month
27.11.2022 Erdogan tvrdi da je neizbježna kopnena ofanziva u Siriji: 27.11.2022: Turska nastavlja sa zracnim i artiljerijskim napadima na položaje kurdskih milicija na sjeveru Sirije
Syria/United Kingdom relations: Syria/United Kingdom relations
2012: NZZ 10. August 2012: Britische Hilfe für die syrische Opposition - 7 November: British officials planning talks with Syrian armed groups in a bid to unite the opposition as British PM backs 'safe passage' for Assad - 16 November: Violence rages in Syria as Britain says it needs more details from new coalition prior to formal recognition - 20 November: UK recognises Syria opposition coalition
2013: 3 March 2013: Britain's FM Hague describes Syria's Assad as a 'man presiding over slaughter', pledges more aid to opposition and refuses to rule out the possibility of arming the opposition in the future - 12 March: British PM suggests the country could break the EU arms embargo to help arm Syrian opposition - 13 April: Britain has proof of chemical weapons use in Syria from an area close to Damascus - 19 July: Britain has abandoned plans to arm Syrian opposition fighting to overthrow Assad and believes he might survive in office for years - 29/30 August: After imploring the world not to stand idly by over Assad's use of chemical weapons, Cameron was forced into a climbdown by the Labour party, failing to pass a motion by 285 to 272 votes in the parliament - 5 September: British PM Cameron says that Britain has further evidence of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which a British source says confirmed the use of sarin - 21 December: The body of the British surgeon Abbas Khan who died in a Syrian prison arrives in Lebanon en route to the UK as his mother accuses Assad's intelligence services of killing him - 23 December: Syrian regime must answer for Indian-origin doctor Abbas Khan's death, says David Cameron
2014: 4 October: Islamic State beheads British man Alan Henning, who had gone to Syria to help victims of conflict by joining an aid convoy and was taken captive on December 26
Syria/USA relations: Syria/USA relations - US economic sanctions on Syria
2012: 24 July 2012: US President Barack Obama warns Assad regime that it would be held 'accountable' if it uses its stockpile of chemical weapons - 26 July: US fears Assad forces 'lining up for a massacre' in Aleppo - 11 August 2012: US secretary of state set to meet with Turkish leaders as deadly clashes continue in Syrian city of Aleppo - 21 August: US President Obama warns Assad regime over chemical arms regarding any recourse by Assad to his deadly arsenal as crossing a 'red line' - 1 November: The US has called for a major overhaul of Syria's opposition to broaden the coalition against Bashar al-Assad, urging to resist efforts by extremist groups to 'hijack the revolution' - 4 December: US sharpens warning on Syria chemical weapons as UN and EU scale back staff and activities from Syria due to the worsening security situation - 12 December: USA recognised Syria's opposition coalition as the country’s sole legitimate representative
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
USA government assessment of the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons on 21 August 2013: US Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013
September 2013: 1 September 2013: Obama says that the US should take military action in Syria in response to the chemical weapons attacks, but seeks congressional approval on Syria action - 1 September: Sarin gas used in Damascus attack, John Kerry said as he urged Congress to vote for military action against the Assad regime - 3 September: US Marines website hacked, sent to pro-Assad note - 5 September: Pentagon may take charge of arming Syrian opposition, US officials say - 10 September: US president says his administration is skeptically exploring Russia's proposal to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control - 12 September: US officials say the CIA has been delivering light machine guns and other small arms to Syrian opposition forces for several weeks - 13 September: After Assad confirmed that Syria plans to give up its chemical weapons, the United States urges him and his Russian allies to quickly make good on his promise - 25 September 2013: Speaking at the UN General Assembly Obama urges the global community to take risks for Mideast peace and urges the UN to back tough consequences for Assad regime over chemical weapons
October 2013: 19 October: Syria must allow aid convoys to starving civilians, says US
2014: 5 February 2014: USA condemns the use of barrel bombs in Aleppo by Assad's forces< - 18 March: Suspending Syria embassy operations, USA says it is unacceptable that individuals appointed by the regime conduct diplomatic activity in the country - 11 September: As Obama announces expansion of USA campaign against terrorist 'Islamic State' in Iraq and Syria, Syrian opposition coalition welcomes Obama's ISIS plan
September 2014: Since 22 September 2014: American-led intervention in Syria - 2014 Opérations aériennes de la coalition internationale en Syrie - 24 September: The International Coalition’s ignoring of Assad is unacceptable, Syrian Coalition says, calling for a moderate Syrian government to end terrorism and Assad's barbaric aerial bombardments - 25 September: Continuing the international coalition's campaign USA targets Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in Syria - 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 - 26 September: USA-led strikes hit Islamic State group oil sites for second day - 27 September: USA-led strikes hit IS oil targets as coalition grows, but Washington warned up to 15,000 'moderate' rebels would need to be trained and armed to beat back the militants in Syria - 29 September: USA-led raids hit Islamic State in north, east Syria
2015: 10 February 2015: USA confirms American hostage Kayla Mueller held in Syria since 2013 by Islamic State killed
2016: 8 April 2016: The Syrian Assad regime has released USA freelance photographer Dawes who was captured and abducted in August 2012 while covering Assad’s war - 12 May 2016: Syrian opposition’s Mohammad Alloush calls upon the USA to lift the ban on supplying rebel groups with weapons in order to defend themselves and to counterbalance the support Assad receives from Russia and Iran
April 2017: 8 April 2017: Syrian Coalition welcomes USA strikes on Shaerat airbase in eastern Homs province, calling for further strikes until Assad is removed from power, as USA Secretary of State Tillerson says that 'steps are underway' with our partners around the world to ultimately remove Bashar al-Assad from power through a political process
May 2018: 10 May 2018: Syrian opposition praises Donald Trump's Iran nuclear deal exit, saying move could help remove 'malignant influence’ of Iran from country, also meaning that the USA would now have to confront Iran in Syria, including its proxies
14 November 2021 USA military hid air raids that killed dozens in Syria in March 2019: 14 November 2021: USA military hid air raids that killed dozens in Syria, new report says, as New York Times investigation finds that up to 64 women and children may have been killed in the March 2019 air raids by USA military near the town of Baghuz that were ordered by a classified USA special operations unit tasked with ground operations in Syria
Syria/Yemen relations: Syria/Yemen relations - 26 September 2013: Poor and desperate, Syrian refugees beg on Yemen's streets - 26 March 2015: Syrian Coalition supports Arab military operation for the protection of Yemen against Iranian-backed Al-Houthi militias
Politics of Syria: Politics of Syria - List of political parties in Syria
Since 1970 Assadism and one-party state: Since 1970 Assadism based on Ba'athism, an Arab nationalist ideology that promotes the development and creation of a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party, supporting the creation of one-party states and rejects political pluralism in an unspecified length of time, also based on principles of Arab nationalism and pan-Arabism
11 February 2020 regime soldiers pay homage to Assad: 11 February 2020: Assad regime soldiers pay homage to the dictator in Damascus
25 May 2023 millions of Syrian refugees face fight to reclaim homes after Assad regime passed laws to seize their land: 25 May 2023: As many as 14 million Syrians face a near insurmountable barrier to returning to their homes after the government passed laws giving the state power to seize their land and property, according to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights. The report, shared with the Guardian, urged the UN high commissioner for refugees to highlight the laws as one of the main obstacles to refugees returning home.
Human rights, political repression and torture in Syria: Human rights in Syria - Political repression in Syria - Torture in Syria
Since 1994 OHCHR monitoring: United Nations OHCHR monitoring Syria's compliance with obligations of human rights treaties
2013 Human Rights Watch monitoring: 3 October 2013: Human Rights Watch accused the Syrian Assad regime of detaining tens of thousands of people for protesting peacefully, torturing many or holding them for long periods
2014: 2014 Syrian detainee report - 21 January 2014: There is clear evidence that Assad's regime has systematically tortured and executed about 11,000 detainees since 2011, a report by three former war crimes prosecutors says - 21 January: International aid agencies say evidence of execution of 11,000 detainees in regime jails comes from just one area of Syria - 3 April 2014: Iranian general admits advising Syrian regime on establishing 'shabbiha' paramilitary force, which has terrorised Syrian dissidents and committed grave human rights abused since the start of the Syrian revolution in March 2011 - 14 May 2014: Nearly 850 people, including children and women, have died in Syrian government prisons and security forces facilities this year - 12 December: On Human Rights Day Syrian Coalition releases a report detailing the systematic violations committed by Assad forces since early 2011 - 19 December 2014: 215,000 Syrians detained in Assad’s prisons, a report of the Syrian Network for Human Rights says
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
2016: 21 mai 2016: Au moins 60'000 personnes sont mortes en cinq ans sous la torture ou à cause des terribles conditions de détention dans les prisons du régime syrien, selon l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme - 18 August 2016: 'The worst place on earth', Syrian regime’s most notorious Saydnaya military prison, a hidden complex now brought to life in a harrowing interactive digital model as part of rights group’s work to raise awareness of the darkest untold stories of Assad’s brutal regime
2017: 7 February 2017: Syrian Assad regime killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at Saydnaya prison north of Damascus known to detainees as 'the slaughterhouse', according to Amnesty International, saying in a report that 20-50 people killed each week in 2011-2015 under authorization of senior Syrian officials as part of an extermination policy
August 2018: 27 August 2018: The Syrian Democratic Women Organization has launched a campaign of solidarity with the mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of Syrian detainees, calling for legislation to allow investigations of the martyrs who were murdered during torture, so their bodies could be handed over to their families, in the presence of the international community, and also hoping to uncover the real reasons behind their deaths and to punish those who were responsible for the atrocities
Military of Syria/Assad regime and equipment: Syrian army, Force structure 2011 - Equipment of the Syrian army, origin (mainly Soviet-Union/Russia) and use in the Civil War against the Syrian people - Syrian aircraft inventory, origin (mainly Soviet-Union/Russia further Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Pakistan and Poland) and use in the Civil War against the Syrian people - Syrian navy equipment, origin Soviet-Union/Russia and Poland
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
2016: 16 February 2016: Bodies of around 32 young men from the Kafrsousa and al-Midan districts in Damascus buried by families only 20 days after being forcibly conscripted by regime forces - 27 June 2016: Assad regime accused of disfiguring soldiers' corpses to evade paying compensation
Assad regime'e air force and airbases: Assad regime'e air force (Syrian Arab Air Force) - Syrian Air Force bases
Aleppo province:
Jirah Military Airbase: Jirah Military Airbase
Kuweires Military Aviation Institute and airbase: Kuweires Military Aviation Institute, an airbase and military aviation institute in Aleppo Governorate situated some 30 km east of the city of Aleppo
Menagh Military Air Base: Menagh Military Air Base, an Assad regime's air force installation located 6 kilometres south of Azaz in Aleppo Governorate
Damascus province:
Al-Dumayr Military Airport: Al-Dumayr Military Airport, an Assad regime's air force installation located 40 kilometers north-east of Damascus
Mezzeh Military Airport: Mezzeh Military Airport, military air base located in Mezzeh south-west of the old centre of Damascus with one runway of 8258ft length - During World War II Mazzeh airport was a military base for the Vichy French airforce, which also permitted Nazi-Germany to use its bases
January 2017: 13 January 2017: Assad regime accused Israel of firing rockets that hit near major Mazzeh military air base west of Damascus, triggering a fire
September 2018: 2 September 2018: Missile attack reported at Mazzeh military air base near Damascus
Hama province:
Hama Military Airport: Hama Military Airport located in west of Hama
April 2018 47th Brigade base strike: 30 April 2018: Missile strikes against the 47th Brigade base of the Syrian regime forces in the central province of Hama overnight killed 26 pro-regime fighters, mostly Iranians, according to SOHR, as strike likely targeted surface-to-surface missiles Iran seeks to deploy
Homs province:
Al-Qusayr Military Airbase: Al-Qusayr Military Airbase
May 2018 Al-Qusayr airbase strike: 24 May 2018: Strike on Syrian air base said to target Hezbollah arms depot
Shayrat Airbase: Shayrat Airbase located in Homs, having two runways and around 40 hardened shelters
April 2017 Shayrat missile strike: 7 April 2017 Shayrat missile strike, involving the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles by the USA, aimed at Assad's Shayrat Airbase as a direct response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack that occurred on 4 April
Tiyas Military Airbase: Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase, located in the Homs Governorate north of Tiyas and west of Palmyra, and the largest Assad regime's airbase in Syria
April 2018 T-4 Airbase strike: 9 April 2018: Iranians reportedly among fatalities in early-morning missile strike on T-4 air base, as 14 said killed in attack on Syrian facility previously targeted by Israel - 10 April 2018: Iranian death toll in Syria strike attributed to Israel rises to 7, including top drone commander, as bodies of the Iranians, described as military advisers, had been flown back to Iran, after Iranian regime denied direct involvement and military buildup in Syria - 11 April 2018: Syria strike target identified as air force compound under exclusive Iranian control
Idlib province:
Abu al-Duhur Military Airbase: Abu al-Duhur Military Airbase, a major airbase of Assad's air force, located about 5 km east of Abu al-Duhur in Idlib Governorate
2012-2015 Siege of Abu al-Duhur Airbase: 2012-2015 Siege of Abu al-Duhur Airbase
January 2018: 21 January 2018: Assad regime and allied militias recaptured key Abu Duhur airbase in Idlib province
Since 2011 shootdowns of Assad's murderous warplanes and accidents: List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011
Since 2012 barrel bombs used by Assad air force: Barrel bombs used by Assad air force and barrel bomb attacks since 2012
Since 2012 list of barrel bomb attacks: List of barrel bomb attacks by Assad's air force, since 2012
2014/2015: 28 April 2014: Western broadcasters witness devastation of Assad's air bombardment on Aleppo - 28 April 2014: Residents and rescuers tell the broadcasters barrel-bombed Aleppo living in fear - 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 - 13 May 2015: Assad's helicopters dropped more than 6500 explosive barrels on areas around Syria, documented by SOHR
Assad regime and weapons of mass destruction: Syria and Assad's weapons of mass destruction
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
2008 overview: CSIS overview on Assad's weapons of mass destruction, 2 June 2008
Since 2011 use of chemical weapons in Assad's war against the Syrian people: Since 2011 use of chemical weapons in Assad's war against the Syrian people
2013 Assad's chemical weapons stockpiles: 8 September 2013: Syria's Assad regime amassed one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from the Soviet Union and Iran, as well as Western European suppliers and even a handful of American companies, according to USA diplomatic cables and declassified intelligence records
2013: 19 March 2013 Khan al-Assal chemical attack - April 2013 Jobar chemical attacks
August 2013 Assad's Ghouta chemical attack: August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack - 10 September 2013: Admitting the possession and ongoing production of chemical weapons the Assad regime says it wants to join the chemical weapons ban treaty - 13 September: Assad dispersing chemical arsenal throughout Syria to avoid detection - 19 septembre: Assad admet que son pays a des armes chimiques
2014: 29 January 2014: Syria has given up less than five percent of its chemical weapons arsenal and will miss next week's deadline to send all toxic agents abroad for destruction - 2 February: Syria's Assad said to be stockpiling advanced weapons including chemical and biological arms in Alawite heartland - 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 - April 2014 Kafr Zita chemical attack - 23 April 2014: Syrian activists accuse Assad of new attacks with poisonous chlorine gas in recent weeks and months - 26 April 2014: Growing conviction among Western capitals that Assad has failed to come clean about regime's chemical weapons program as intelligence suggests he can still produce chemical arms - 27 April: Syria chemical deadline passes, 8% of arms remain, UN says - 29 April: Israeli intelligence is afraid that Assad's regime is acting to conceal a small percentage of the chemical weapons in its possession, while misleading the international community - 29 April: Global chemical weapons watchdog OPCW to investigate allegations of recent chlorine gas attacks by Assad's forces - 13 May: Human Rights Watch says 'strong evidence' Assad regime used chlorine gas - 19 June 2014: OPCW says it has collected information to suggest that chemical weapons such as chlorine gas have been used in a systematic manner in Syria - 7 October 2104: Syrian Assad regime discloses four secret chemical weapons facilities, UN says
2015: 10 January: Assad regime reportedly building new underground nuclear facility near Homs with Iranian, North Korea and Hezbollah support - 8 May 2015: OPCW inspectors have found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at a military research site in Syria that had not been declared to the global chemical weapons watchdog, diplomats say - 29 May 2015: Sources claim regime plans to evacuate strategic as-Sin airport in countryside of Damascus as chemical weapons leave the facility - 16 June 2015: Syrian American Medical Society documents 31 separate chlorine attacks between 16 March and 9 June 2015, saying all the attacks were conducted by launching barrel bombs from helicopters and many targeted civilian areas, leaving 10 people dead and at least 530 seeking medical treatment - 16 September 2015: UN names director of the UN disarmament office Virginia Gamba to head an independent panel tasked with determining who is behind continued chemical weapons attacks in Syria
April 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack: 4 April 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack
June 2017 and Assad's nerve gas order since 2009: 3 June 2017: Syria’s dictator Bashar Al-Assad personally ordered the development and production of nerve gas in order to use it against his own people in early 2009, two years before his war against the Syrian people began, the French investigative website Mediapart has revealed
January/February 2018 Assad’s chemical weapons stockpile linked to 2013 Ghouta attack: 30 January 2018: The Assad regime’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack in Syria in August 2013, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, confirming that Assad's forces committed the atrocity - 1 February 2018: In the wake of more suspected sarin and chlorine attacks, USA said that Syria's Assad regime may be developing new, more sophisticated chemical weapons, and signaled it could consider fresh airstrikes against the regime
7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack: 7 April 2018 Douma chemical attack attributed to Assad's army, reportedly killing at least 70 people, as on-site medics and reports stated that exposure to chlorine gas and sarin nerve agent killed the victims
14 April 2018 allied military strikes against Assad's chemical weapons: 14 April 2018 allied military strikes, involving manned aircraft and ship-based missiles, against multiple Assad regime sites in Syria
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
18 April 2018: 18 April 2018: Despite destruction of 1,300 tonnes of declared chemical weapons since 2013, Assad regime retained capacity and willingness to replenish stockpile, after Russia vetoed any referral of Syria to the ICC
August 2018: 5 August 2018: Assad regime's Aziz Azbar, whose CERS center is thought to be linked to gas attacks and Iranian missile development, reportedly killed in car bombing
Economy of Syria: Economy of Syria - main industries include petroleum, textiles, food processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining, cement, oil seeds crushing, car assembly - Sectors of the Syrian economy
Oil industry in Syria: Oil industry in Syria
2017: 9 May 2017: The state’s production of oil exhibited a decrease of 72% in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period of the previous year, bringing the daily production average to 2,233 barrels
Industry and manufacturing in Syria: Industry and manufacturing: Textiles, food processing, mining, construction etc.
2016: 4 August 2016: Syrian textile manufacturers fail at reaching over half of projected productivity and marketing target and face losses of 12.5 bln Syrian pounds due to difficulties in securing the necessary basic materials for production and maintenance
Agriculture in Syria: Agriculture in Syria: Cotton, grains, fruits, vegetables, livestock
2014/2015: 28 April 2014: War-ravaged Syria expects worst wheat harvest in 40 years as chaos caused by Assad's war and drought hurt the country's ability to secure supplies - 1 September 2014: Assad war-struck Syria forced to import wheat and oil - 24 July 2015: Agriculture sector remains decimated by Assad's war against Syrian people as UN calls for urgent donor support to meet the country's needs
2016: 26 April 2016: Syria's shortage of its main staple wheat is worsening, as the area of land sown with cereals has fallen again this year and farming infrastructure, including irrigation canals and grain depots, has been destroyed, according to the FAO - 17 June 2016: Trade program between the Russian and Syrian Assad regime sees thousands of tons of Syrian fruits and vegetables reach Russia in the past five months - 7 July 2016: Syrian Assad regime mulls exporting livestock despite huge drop in herd numbers - 17 November 2016: Food production in Syria has declined to record levels due to fighting, lack of security, and weather conditions, putting millions at risk, according to the World Food Program
Water in Syria: Water in Syria - Bodies of water of Syria - Rivers of Syria
Tigris–Euphrates river system: Euphrates river - Tigris–Euphrates river system - Dams in Syria, there are 141 dams in Syria with a total storage capacity of 15.8 km3, the largest dam is the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates - Tabqa Dam
Water resources management and water supply in Syria: Water resources management in Syria - Water supply and sanitation in Syria
2013 large loss of fresh water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins: 12 February 2013: A large loss of fresh water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins since 2003 detected
2016 lack of access to safe water: 7 September 2016: As war-torn Syria’s water supplies are deteriorating fast, the lack of access to safe water is driving migration and disease and pollution, hydrologists and humanitarian groups say
October 2018 70% of Syrians do not have access to potable water on a regular basis: 24 October 2018: 70% of Syrians do not have access to potable water on a regular basis as the Assad regime and its Russian ally deliberately target vital civilian infrastructure, according to UNDP
12 November 2021 water scarcity reaches crisis point in northern Syria: 12 November 2021: Water scarcity reaches crisis point in northern Syria, as climate change-induced water shortages in northern Syria are exacerbating existing vulnerabilities caused by economic instability, conflict, and covid-19 pandemic
Infrastructure of Syria: Infrastructure of Syria - Transport in Syria - Energy in Syria - Communications in Syria
External trade of Syria: External trade and investment
Since 2011 Assad's war and Syrian economic crisis:
2013/2014 war and economic crisis: 4 janvier 2013: Après presque deux ans de guerre civile, l'économie syrienne est à bout de souffle - 27 June 2013: Iran, Russia and China prop up Assad economy, supporting international financial transactions and delivering $500m a month in oil and extending credit lines, Kadri Jamil says - 23 December 2014: The Syrian pound lost 461% of its value since early 2011, when it was valued at 47 SYP against the US dollar
2015: 1 April 2015: National Coalition's Bassam al-Malek says that Assad's regime depends on Iran's military and economic support and that it is on the brink of economic collapse - 7 May 2015: Report claims that Syrian textile industry under-performed for 2014 with a shortfall of over 30 billion Syrian pounds - 24 June 2015: Syria's economy more than halved in the four years of Assad's war, with oil production dwindling, inflation surging and the currency near collapse, report says
2016: 5 April 2016: Cost of Syria's traditional foods soar amid rising dollar rates - 30 avril 2016: Il y avait 28% de pauvres avant la guerre en Syrie, il y en a désormais 83,4%, et 13,5 millions de personnes, dont 6 millions d'enfants ont besoin d'aide humanitaire, l'accès à l'école régresse, un tiers des hopitaux hors service, selon une étude de l'ONU - 1 May 2017: More than 80% of Syrians living below poverty line, UN report says - 7 July 2016: Eid suffers as inflation forces clothing prices up 50%
2017 67% of Syrians living in extreme poverty: 2 June 2017: The proportion of Syrians living in extreme poverty has risen to 67% as families continue to lose their breadwinners, according to a report issued by the pro-regime Damascus Center for Research and Studies
2018 Syria's economy retracted 58.3% in five years: 15 May 2018: Figures released by the Central Bureau for Statistics show that Syria's economy retracted 58.3% in five years
April 2020 food prices in Syria doubled in the past year to record levels: 27 April 2020: Food prices in war-torn Syria have doubled in the past year to record levels, 14 times the average before the nine-year-old conflict, as Assad's war has devastated the country's economy since it started in 2011, and plunged 80% of its people into poverty, UN's WFP says
12 June 2020 Syria’s flatlining economy: 12 June 2020: Syria's currency has plunged by 70% since April, more than half its people face food scarcity, hopes of rebuilding a country shattered by war continue to ebb, and the country seems barely able to absorb new shocks, as new USA sanctions that take effect next week, could devastate what is left
5 October 2020 Syria introduces limits on subsidised bread: 5 October 2020: Syria introduces limits on subsidised bread, putting larger families at risk of starvation as the country’s crippling economic crisis deepens
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
June/July 2022 Syrian opposition bans wheat exports in response to food crisis, aggravated by Putin' s new war: 13 June 2022: Syrian opposition bans wheat exports in response to food crisis, as opposition’s interim government is trying to prevent the smuggling of strategic crops, namely wheat, from its areas of control, amid a global food crisis resulting from the Putin regime's Ukraine war - 18 June 2022: Russia-Ukraine war triggered a global food crisis, as the two countries export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley and more than 70% of its sunflower oil 7 July 2022: Some 71 million people worldwide are experiencing poverty due to soaring food and energy prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UN Development Programme UNDP has warned in a new report


Syrian society: Syrian society
Governorates, districts, cities, villages and neighborhoods in Syria: 14 Governorates (muhafazat) of Syria - Muhafazah is a first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, usually translated to governorate or province
Districts of Syria: Districts of Syria
Cities, towns and villages in Syria: List of cities, towns and villages in Syria - Governorate and district capital cities - Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War
Aleppo governorate (province): Aleppo Governorate (province)
Aleppo city, the capital of the Aleppo Governorate: Aleppo city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2.1 million in 2004, it is Syria's second-largest city and also one of the largest cities in the Levant. Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it may have been inhabited since the sixth millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied by Amorites by the latter part of the third millennium BC
History and timeline of Aleppo: History of Aleppo - Timeline of Aleppo
Afrin city in northern Syria's Afrin District: Afrin city in northern Syria's Afrin District and part of the Aleppo Governorate. The total population of the district as of 2005 was recorded at 172,095 people, of whom 36,562 lived in the town of Afrin itself. The town and district are named after the Afrin River
History of Afrin city: History of Afrin city
24 May 2022 Syrian refugees in Turkey worried about relocation in 'safe areas' inside Syria: 24 May 2022: Syrian refugees in Turkey are worried about Erdogan's plans to relocate up to 1 million of them to 'safe areas' inside Syria, as Assad regime is fearing a Turkish landgrab and the return of dissidents, as Turkey's 3.5 million Syrian refugees have turned into a playball of domestic politics amid Turkey's soaring inflation rate, economic freefall and upcoming elections in 2023, as Idlib's 'safe zone' has already become a magnet for internally displaced Syrians dependent on humanitarian aid for 5 million people who are crowded in an area meant for only 1 million
24 July 2022 missile shelling targeting a camp on the outskirts of Afrin city: 24 July 2022: Missile shelling targeting a camp on the outskirts of Afrin city
Jindires (Jandairis, Jandires, Jendires) town in northern Syria in the Afrin District: Jindires (Jandairis, Jandires, Jendires) town in northern Syria in the Afrin District of the Aleppo Governorate. It is located on the Afrin River, 68.4km northwest by road from Aleppo and 20.9km southwest of Afrin. According to the CBS, Jindires had a population of 13,661 citizens in 2004. It was captured by the Turkish Military and its proxy, the 'Syrian National Army' in March 2018. On 12 October 2022, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took control of the town.
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.
10 February 2023 after surviving Assad's war, earthquake kills Naser al-Wakaa's wife and children in Jandaris town: 10 February 2023: Naser al-Wakaa kept his family safe through years of war, bombings and air raids until Monday's earthquake struck their home in Jandaris, killing Naser al-Wakaa's wife and children. He sat amid the ruins of his home, surrounded by broken concrete and twisted metal, grieving his loss as he held baby clothes tight to his face. In despair he named his children and showed a notebook of his eldest daughter buried in the rubble, with words addressed to her father, alongside an inked heart.
Kobani Canton: Kobani Canton is the middle of three de facto autonomous cantons of Rojava officially remaining part of Aleppo Governorate - Kobanî was unofficially declared to be the administrative center of the Kobanî Canton of Rojava in 2014
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.
History of Aleppo Governorate: History of Aleppo Governorate (province)
2011-present history of Aleppo Governorate: 2011-present history of Aleppo Governorate, that has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in Assad's war against the Syrian people. In June 2017, nearly six years after the war's start, the province was almost equally divided between Syrian Assad regime forces, Syrian Opposition forces, Turkish Army /TFSA and the Rojava/Syrian Democratic Forces. After fierce fighting, the Assad's army with Russian air support managed to take control of the capital of the Aleppo, in December 2016 from Fatah Halab coalition
2012-2014 battles of Aleppo Governorate: March-July 2012 Battle of Azaz - July 2012–present Battle of Aleppo - July 2012 Battle of Anadan - September-November 2012 Siege of Base 46 - February 2013 Battle of Safira - March 2013 Khan al-Assal chemical attack (Sarin) - October 2014 Al-Safira offensive - September 2014 - March 2015 Siege of Kobanî launched by 'Islamic State' terrorists - 2013–present Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict - 2015 combat operations during the Battle of Aleppo
2014/2015: 18 August 2014: As USA's Obama considers, reconsiders again and again whether to provide forceful assistance to the Syrian democratic resistance forces, Aleppo is currently under threat from both the Islamic State terrorists and the Assad regime after it hosted for several years the Syrian resistance and the Free Aleppo Governorate Council, seeking a real democratic transition and political reform
Since October 2015 Assad regime and allied forces' Aleppo offensive: Since October 2015 Aleppo offensive launched by regime forces backed Russian and Iranian regime - 21 October 2015: Russian warplanes carried out more airstrikes in Aleppo province, also targeting the 'Council of Free Aleppo Province' and wounding several persons - 21 October: 1,229 Syrians killed in Russian-Iranian aggression since 30 September, the largest number of victims was recorded in Aleppo province, where 402 civilians were killed, mostly as a result of the Russian aerial bombardment
2016: 27 January 2016: Aleppo Provincial Council says that the systematic destruction of the city by the Assad regime, with the support of Russia and Iran, has had disastrous effects on living conditions in rebel-held parts of the province', and that the 'bombing by the regime forces mainly targets hospitals, schools, bakeries, and also largely destroys roads, water and electricity networks'
February 2016 Russian airforces' northern Aleppo offensive: February 2016 Northern Aleppo offensive by Russian airforces, Iran’s 'Revolutionary Guards', Hezbollah, and Assad regime forces
6 February 2016: Aleppo lives in fear of siege and starvation, as Russian and Assad regime's bombs are falling so fast now that often rescuers don’t have time to reach victims between blasts - 8 February 2016: Civilians and militants took to the streets in Aleppo calling on armed rebel groups to unify as regime offensive in the province's countryside threatens to blockade thousands of residents in the city - 8 February: The ongoing fierce assault on Aleppo by Assad’s forces, backed by Russian air cover and Iranian as well as Hezbollah militias, has forced most schools in the city to close
24 February 2016: Aleppo Province Council forced to work from a tent near the Turkish border after USA-backed 'Syrian Democratic Forces', Assad regime forces and Russian bombing displaced members and their families from northern Aleppo
4 March 2016: Al-Furat water reach the city of Aleppo and it will pumped into Aleppo neighborhoods after 3 months of cut
15 March 2016: 5 Free Syrian Army units operating in northern Aleppo have merged to form a single group in an effort to unify military efforts on the ground, following Russian intervention that first targeted rebel strongholds in northern Syria and the Free Syrian Army
24 March 2016: Absence of advanced weaponry allows Islamic State terrorists to regain liberated villages in Aleppo province, opposition fighters say - 24 March: Families fleeing the Islamic State terrorists forced to gather by the hundreds of thousands near the northern border as Azaz with up to 150 new arrivals each day
April 2016: 1 April 2016: 'Syrian Institute for Justice and Accountability' said it had documented 49 civilians killed by regime bombardment on Aleppo and its countryside during the month of March in violation of the 'cessation of hostilities' agreement - 5 April 2016: Rebel fighters shot down a regime SU-22 fighter jet while it was bombing rebel positions in Al-Eis hill south of Aleppo, the pilot who was captured alive
26 April 2016: Many killed in Aleppo as fierce fighting and deployment of Russian artillery shatters Syria's fragile truce - 30 avril 2016: Après le bombardement d'un hôpital d'Alep mercredi 27 avril, le docteur et pédiatre Maaz vient s'ajouter à la liste de ceux qui ont donné leurs vies pour sauver celle des autres, 'resté dans l'enfer' pour sauver les enfants - 30 April 2016: The ferocity and cruelty of the bombing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad’s air force has shocked even those familiar with the worst, as bombs and guns seek out civilian targets and the regime has launched more than 260 airstrikes, 110 artillery strikes and 18 missiles, and has dropped 68 bombs, according to a civil defence organisation
Since May 2016: Since May 2016 Manbij offensive, military offensive operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces to capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State terrorists
May 2016: 6 May 2016: Syrian Women’s Association organized a panel discussion on activating the role of Syria’s women in civil society organizations and local councils in Aleppo in cooperation with Aleppo provincial council - 19 May: Local council and civil defense issue calls for international community to intervene to protect only road leading into rebel-held Aleppo as city’s last supply route comes under attack
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
October 2016: September–October 2016 Aleppo offensive, military operation launched in Aleppo by Assad's army and allies aiming to capture all of the remaining rebel-held parts of the city of Aleppo - October 2016 Aleppo offensive refers to a military operation launched by rebel forces aiming to establish a new supply line into Aleppo city - 21 October 2016: Hundreds of people in the besieged parts of Aleppo took to the streets to protest against Russia’s planned 'evacuation' of besieged parts of the city, calling for toppling the Assad regime and the ousting of the Russian and Iranian invaders from Syria - 28 October 2016: Rebels launch Aleppo offensive in a second attempt to break Assad's siege, opening a corridor to the east for the month of August after pro-regime forces first applied a blockade in July and a Russian, Assad, and Iranian barbaric assault, that brought nearly 300,000 trapped people in a desperate situation with dwindling supplies of food and medicine and without any international help of imagined democrats and friends of mankind
November 2016: 17 November 2016: Social media reported regime forces and allied militias prevented civilians from entering the recaptured suburb of Assad in Aleppo until the looting of the houses was completed - 24 November 2016: Residents and a group of activists including doctors and civil servants from Aleppo's rebel-held areas urged the international community to make airdrops of humanitarian aid to put an end to the siege the Assad regime and its allies have imposed on the city for nearly three months - 30 November 2016: Syrian Coalition's George Sabra says in an interview that the loss of the eastern part of Aleppo, which is under opposition control, will not mean the end of the battle against the rule of Bashar al-Assad
December 2016: 2 December 2016: Civilians in regime-besieged eastern Aleppo face severe bread shortages after airstrikes forced all bakeries to close down, as tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced as a result of the ongoing onslaught by the Assad, Russian and Iranian-backed forces and as the Syrian civil defense corps says that over 750 civilians have been killed in Aleppo in over 2,000 airstrikes and 7,000 artillery shells on the city and its countryside since 15 November - 14 December 2016: Local opposition council says civilian food supplies in the besieged city of Aleppo had fallen into the hands of regime forces amid reports that pro-Assad forces were carrying out massacres against locals - 14 December 2016: Witnesses describe the horror of the full-scale destruction of Aleppo's rebel-held districts while UN cites reports indicating scores of residents have been executed while attempting to flee their homes over the past few days - 16 December 2016: Thousands evacuated from Aleppo in ceasefire deal, arriving in areas still under bombardment and facing uncertain future in freezing war zones
January 2017: 8 January 2017: Despite nationwide 'truce', clashes and a car bombing in the rebel-held city of Azaz kill dozens in Syria, at least 43 people, mostly civilians, in Azaz on the border with Turkey
March 2017: 4 March 2017: Tens of thousands of Syrian civilians have fled ferocious fighting as local authorities in ravaged north struggle to shelter 40,000 civilians displaced by regime’s Russia-backed offensive to oust jihadists
May 2017: 15 May 2017: Returning to Aleppo's once-gleaming mosque, now ravaged by war
October 2017: 3 October 2017: Eight-year-old Syrian girl Bana Alabed who tweeted from Aleppo in 2016 documents horrors of daily bombardments in memoir - 7 October 2017: Several demonstrations were held in the province of Idlib and Aleppo where demonstrators demanded the removal of the Assad regime and the release of detainees in Assad’s prisons
July 2018: 23 July 2018: At least 5 civilians killed and dozen more wounded in a car bomb attack in the opposition-held areas in northern Aleppo province, according to activists, as another car bomb has rocked the town of Akhtarin, killing two civilians - 25 July 2018: Female schoolteacher Iman Hashem is taking the reins of the Syrian opposition’s local council in western Aleppo, that manages the six districts in the city’s western suburbs still controlled by the opposition Free Syrian Army after in December 2016 al-Assad’s forces captured the city except for those districts
August 2018: 24 August 2018: A criminal court under the authority of the Euphrates Shield forces in al-Bab in the Aleppo countryside has given a six-month prison term and a fine to Dr. Mahmoud al-Sayeh, who lost 22 family members, including of his seven children and his wife during a single airstrike carried out by Assad’s regime forces, because of posts on social media, criticizing Turkish policy in Syria
December 2018: 5 December 2018: Students at the Faculty of Medicine in the town of Marea in northern rural Aleppo held a sit-in protest to demonstrate solidarity with detainees in the prisons of the Assad regime
January 2019 Manbij attacks: 12 January 2019: Two members of the Manbij security forces were killed by a roadside bomb on Saturday - 16 January 2019 Manbij bombing, when an Islamic State suicide bomber targeted a busy market street in Manbij, the death toll is believed to be 19 including four USA personnel - 17/18 January 2019: SDF to intensify anti-ISIS campaign after Manbij suicide attack
February 2019 block of flats collapsed: 2 February 2019: At least 11 people, including four children, have died after a block of flats collapsed in Aleppo's Saleheddin that was heavily bombed before Assad regime forces overran district with Russian support in late 2016
Since December 2019 western and nortern Aleppo countryside assault: Since December 2019 western and nortern Aleppo countryside assault and rebel retreat
27 March 2020 northern Aleppo countryside suspension of classes against covid-19: 27 March 2020: Directorate of Education in the northern Aleppo countryside has decided to extend the suspension of classes in the area until the end of April as a preventative measure against the coronavirus
31 January 2021 deadly car bomb attacks near Aazaz: 31 janvier 2021: Au moins onze personnes, dont six civils, ont péri dimanche en Syrie dans deux attentats à la voiture piégée qui ont frappé des régions du nord tenues par des forces turques et leurs supplétifs syriens, a rapporté une ONG
28 August 2023 closure of Aleppo airport forced by Israeli airstrikes: 28 August 2023: Israeli airstrikes on Aleppo airport in northern Syria have caused the grounding of flights. During more than 12 years of civil war in Syria, Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes on its territory, primarily targeting Iran-backed forces and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, as well as Syrian army positions. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR - which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria - said the strikes also targeted weapons depots at the adjacent Nayrab military airport.


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.
As-Suwayda city: As-Suwayda city, a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan. It is the capital of As-Suwayda Governorate, one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South and Daraa Governorate in the West and Rif Dimashq Governorate in the north and east. The city is referred to by some as 'Little Venezuela' due to the city's influx of affluent Venezuelan Syrian immigrants, as the inhabitants of the city are mainly Druze with a prominent Greek Orthodox Christians and Sunni Muslim minority. The population of As-Suwayda Governorate is 313,231 in 2004.
May 2016 displaced people - forced out from Deir-ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo - in As-Suwayda: 3 May 2016: Hundreds of families from Deir-ez-Zor, Raqqa, and Aleppo forced out of shelters for displaced in the southern city of Suweida, according to local media reports - 5 August 2016: Suweida prisoners revolt against execution sentences
July 2018: 27 July 2018: At funeral of victims of the terrorist bombings that targeted Swaida province, local residents kicked out Assad regime officials who were sent to offer condolences, accusing the Assad regime and its officials of being involved in the suicide attacks
Since August 2018: Since August 2018 As-Suwayda offensive
June 2019: 19 June 2019: Activists held a sit-in protest the city of Suweida on Tuesday to demonstrate solidarity with the detainees in the prisons of the Assad regime and the forcefully disappeared people
4 December 2022 angry protesters stormed the governor's office in the southern city of Sweida: 4 December 2022: Protesters angry because of the worsening economic conditions in Syria have stormed the governor's office in the southern city of Sweida, seting fire to the building amid exchanges of heavy gunfire. Earlier about 200 demonstrators had gathered in the centre of the Druze-majority city, reportedly calling for Bashar al-Assad's overthrow, as Syria at the end of 2022 and after 11 years of Assad's war against its people is in the grip of a severe economic downturn. Hundreds of thousands have died and millions have been displaced. since Assad regime's forces cracked down on pro-democracy protests in 2011, but Sweida province has been spared the violence seen in other parts of the country due to the Druze sect making efforts to avoid being drawn into the war. This has led to spiralling prices and increasing anger towards Assad regime in Sweida, which has avoided the worst violence of the Syrian war.


Damascus Governorate: Damascus Governorate - Damascus is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo - Yarmouk Camp is a 2.11-square-kilometre district of the city of Damascus, populated by 112,550 registered refugees in 2002, with hospitals and schools - Neighborhoods of Damascus - Jobar municipality of Damascus, containing the most venerated site for Syrian Jews, an ancient 2,000 year-old synagogue and shrine in commemoration of the biblical prophet Elijah
Since 2011 Damascus and Rif Dimashq offensives: Since 2011 Damascus and Rif Dimashq offensives
2012/2013: December 2012 Yarmouk camp fighting - February-March 2013 Damascus opposition offensive - April 2013 Jobar chemical attacks - Use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war
2015: 19 October 2015: Damascus suffers of water cuts as half of the city goes without water from the government network for 15 days
2016: 29 February 2016: The district of Qaboun in the northern suburbs of Damascus, one of the first areas to join the peaceful anti-government demonstrations in March 2011, remains under murderous siege despite a cease-fire agreement reached two years ago in early 2014 and despite new 'cessation of hostilities', residents and activists say - 18 March 2016: Protesters in the capital call for the release of women and children detained by regime forces since Wednesday and the opening of the entrances and roads of the Barzeh district - 16 May: Long queues form outside bakeries in the capital Damascus after authorities issue order to reduce bread production in regime-held areas - 16 May: State-run media silent after another fire rips through market in the capital’s historic old city - 6 June 2016: Disgruntled Alawite group claims responsibility for assassination of Alaa Makhlouf, personal bodyguard of Bashar al-Assad's wife - 11 juin 2016: Au moins deux personnes ont perdu la vie dans des attaques terroristes samedi à Damas - 28 August: Shells fell at places in al-Abbasiyyin area in the center of the capital Damascus for the second time in August - 29 December 2016: Russian embassy in Damascus hit by mortars
2017: 3 January 2017: Medical sources in Damascus say that a number of people were rushed to hospital inside the capital after drinking contaminated water that was distributed by the Assad regime to residents of the city - 3 February 2017: Iranian-backed foreign militias accused of arson as shop owners in Damascus Qanawat district refused to sell out their shops and homes to the Iranians, as suburbs of Daraya and Qudsaya as well as the Wadi Barada valley were emptied of their indigenous populations following brutal assaults and sieges by regime forces and their allied foreign militias - 8 May 2017: A deal is currently underway to displace the residents of the Barzeh neighborhood, north of Damascus, with the first batch to be sent to opposition-held Idlib - 2 July 2017: At least nine people reportedly killed and 15 others wounded on Sunday when a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus - 20 August 2017: Rocket fire killed five people Sunday near the entrance to the Damascus International Fair
2018: 20 March 2018: A rocket has killed 35 people in a Damascus shopping district in one of the deadliest rebel attacks on the Syrian capital, as bombardment by the Assad regime and its allies left dozens of civilians dead in an opposition stronghold and the international community still failing to act as 'war crimes on an epic scale' unfold in the besieged suburb of Damascus
24 August 2020 Arab gas pipeline explosion caused Syria blackout: 24 August 2020: Arab gas pipeline explosion caused Syria blackout, as state news agency reports blast that disrupted power across country could be a terrorist act
15 November 2020 Damascus starving in the wake of regime’s failure to secure the Syrians’ basic needs: 15 November 2020: Damascus is starving, in the wake of the Syrian regime’s failure to secure the Syrians’ basic needs and emerging bread crisis
4 December 2020 towns in southern Damascus experiencing severe water shortages: 4 December 2020: Towns in southern Damascus are experiencing severe water shortages, with no solutions from the authorities, and are being forced to pay high prices to water tankers reports Zaman Al-Wasl
20 October 2021 deadly bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus: 20 October 2021: A bomb attack on an Assad army bus in Damascus killed 14 people in the bloodiest such attack to strike the Syrian capital in four years, as France24 reports, as 'The Guardian' reports that moments later shelling by Assad regime forces killed 8 people in the Idlib region, which is controlled by groups that have claimed to have carried out such attacks in the past
March 2022 Damascus, Russia's war crimes since 2015 in Syria, since February in Ukraine: 6 March 2022: SOHR reported that Damascus Industry champers and its countryside expressed its support to Putin regime's army, which is now - following it's destruction of Aleppo and other Syrian cities - attacking Ukrainian cities since February, by placing banners in the capital Damascus of the Russian president 'Vladimir Putin' and read 'We support Russia – Victory to Russia – Right prevails'. This comes in light of the economic crisis in Assad regime-held areas, which started with the war between Russia and Ukraine, manifested as shortage in essential goods and medicine from markets and higher prices, in addition to collapse of the Syrian Lira against the foreign currencies.


Daraa Governorate: Daraa Governorate - Daraa city in southwestern Syria
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'.
18 March 2011 deadly protest in Daraa city: 18. März 2011: Assads Polizei hat in der im Süden gelegenen Stadt Daraa auf friedliche Demonstranten gefeuert, fünf getötet und Hunderte verwundet, von denen viele von Assads Schergen wieder aus dem Krankenhaus geholt und an einen unbekannten Ort gebracht wurden
April-May 2011 Siege of Daraa: April-May 2011 Siege of Daraa - February-March 2015 Southern Syria offensive - March 2015 Battle of Bosra
February 2016 Assad's forces displaced the entire population of 9 towns, villages in Dara’a province: 25 February 2016: Regime forces have displaced the entire population of nine towns and villages in Dara’a province in order to turn them into barracks and military sites - 9 August 2016: Opposition factions launch surprise operation to recapture the city of Sheikh Maskin which regime forces seized earlier this year
2017 Assad and his allies accused of using ceasefire to make advances in rural Daraa: 9 January 2017: Syrian Coalition accuses Assad and his allies of using ceasefire to make advances in rural Daraa - 14 March 2017: Syrian Coalition mourns doctor Hasan Hariri who was killed in regime airstrikes in Daraa on Sunday, after joining the revolution in the very beginning, dedicating his efforts to help victims of the war and despite losing his entire family in a barrel bomb attack by the Assad regime forces as well as the many injuries he suffered while carrying out his duties - 13 June 2017: The local council of Daraa appeals to all human rights and international organizations to take urgent actions to relieve residents of the city and force the Assad regime and its allies to stop their fierce onslaught on the city - 8 November 2017: A wave of killings targeting leaders and members of opposition factions in liberated areas of Daraa reported as at least 40 assassination operations were carried out over the month, with rebel groups discovering a number of cells accused of carrying out assassinations on behalf of the regime
July 2018: 28 July 2018: A fourth batch is displaced from Daraa raising to about 10,000, the number of people displaced from the south of Syria to its north
June-July 2018: June-July 2018 Southern Syria offensive
November/December 2018: 23 November 2018: Anti-Assad slogans reappear on walls of Dara’a schools, reaffirming that the Syrian revolution will continue until the overthrow of the regime - 21 December 2018: Dozens of people took to the streets of the city of Dara’a, raising the flag of the Syrian revolution and chanting slogans against the Assad regime and its forces - 23 December 2018: After Daraa demonstrations against the regime and its arbitrary arrests, unidentified people in Nawa and al-Hrak write anti-regime slogans and its head on the walls - 26 December 2018: Assad regime has detained more than 20 women in Daraa province since the beginning of December, including a woman with her child - 27 December 2018: More graffiti demanding regime overthrow appear on walls in Dara’a city
February 2019: 7 February 2019: Phrases against the Iranians, Hezbollah, and al-Baath Party in the Syrian south in conjunction with increased targeting by cells call themselves the 'Popular Resistance'
June 2019: 24 June 2019: Activists in Dara’a urge young people to refuse joining Assad forces, as Syrian opposition says that the Assad regime continues to detain and execute detainees in its prisons - 25 June 2019: The unstable security condition in southern Daraa province has been leading to severe tensions due to the regime’s revenge policy, despite reconciliation deals, as local activists say the frustration is mounting with regards to the regime’s security policies of arbitrary arrest and isolating the towns with military barriers - 25 June 2019: Daraa province witnesses increase in armed attacks by the Popular Resistance against headquarters and sites of the regime forces and their loyal militias
July 2019 suicidal bombing targets the regime forces: 27 July 2019: In an incident that is the first of kind since the regime forces regained control over Daraa province, a suicidal bombing targets the regime forces and their loyal gunmen and kills 6 of them - Since June 2019, SOHR activists have documented more than 886 attacks and assassination attempts by gunfire and detonations of IEDs, motorcycle-bombs and car-bombs, as attacks and assassinations claimed the lives of 587 persons
29 July 2020 newly inducted members of the Fifth Legion chanted for the fall of Assad's regime in Daraa: 29 July 2020: Hundreds of newly inducted members of the Fifth Legion chanted for the fall of the regime in Daraa today, as a Baladi News correspondent said that the Eighth Brigade had graduated a 900-fighter military cohort as part of a military formation in Busra al-Harir east of Daraa, adding that the military parade was held in the presence of officers of the Russian military police, military leaders in addition to a number of notable figures from Daraa, and at the end of the military parade, the graduating fighters chanted against the Assad regime, for the removal of Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah from all Syrian regions, while the fighters continued to raise the regime flag and wearing its official uniform
1 Februar 2021 head of Al-Msifra town collaborating with the regime’s forces died of injuries: 1 Februar 2021: The head of Al-Msifra town in eastern Daraa countryside, who was collaborating with the regime’s security services, has died of injuries he sustained this morning, after being shot by unknown gunmen in the town, according to sources from the town
26 August 2023 anti-government protests shake Syrian provinces amid anger over economy: 26 August 2023: Rare protests against Syria's al-Assad regime continued with demonstrations reported in a string of towns in Daraa and Sweida provinces. The protests began late last week after the government ended fuel subsidies, dealing a heavy blow to Syrians reeling from years of war and economic crisis. In the Daraa province town of Bosra al-Sham, dozens of people demonstrated, openly calling for an end to Assad’s rule 'we have come to the streets in Bosra al-Sham to confirm our continuation of the Syrian revolution and the demands that brought us here in 2011'.


Deir ez-Zor Governorate: Deir ez-Zor Governorate - Deir ez-Zor is the seventh largest city in Syria and the largest in the eastern part on the shores of Euphrates River
2011-2014 Deir ez-Zor clashes: November 2011 - April 2014 Deir ez-Zor clashes, following protests against the Assad regime and its violence as part of a nationwide crackdown since March 2011
2014 Deir ez-Zor offensives: April–July 2014 Deir ez-Zor offensive - December 2014 Deir ez-Zor offensive
December 2015 civilians killed by Assad regime forces and IS terrorists: 23 December 2015: 28 civilians, including 16 schoolgirls, two women and two children were killed in shelling by regime forces and Islamic State terrorists
2016 Assad's arrest campaign of young people: 23 May 2016: Assad forces and militias launched their largest arrest campaign targeting young people, some no older than 14 years old, in regime-controlled areas of Deir-ez-Zor province
December 2016 SDF Deir ez-Zor Military Council: 8 December 2016 Deir ez-Zor Military Council created during a SDF conference in Hasaka
Since September 2017 Deir ez-Zor campaign launched by SDF: Deir ez-Zor campaign, a military operation launched by the SDF against the Islamic State terrorist group in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate with the goal of capturing territory east and north of the Euphrates river, stalled and paused in early 2018 due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin, but resumed on 1 May 2018
November 2017 massacres by Assad regime and Russian air forces: 2 November 2017: Local activists documented the deaths of 530 civilians in the governorate of Deir Ezzor in October, mostly women and children, including 442 civilians killed in aerial bombardment by Assad regime and Russian air forces, while six more others were killed in airstrikes by the international coalition forces - 6 November 2017: At least 75 people reportedly killed by a car bomb as they attempted to flee the city of Deir-ez-Zor
December 2017: 15 December 2017: Aerial bombardment by the international coalition forces on Thursday killed and wounded dozens of civilians in the town of Jerthi in the province of Deir Ezzor, according to activists
February/March 2018 stalled Deir ez-Zor offensive due to Turkey's invasion of Afrin: On 5 March 2018 USA's Pentagon acknowledged that the Turkish military operation in Afrin had led to an 'operational pause' in the Deir ez-Zor offensive, forcing SDF fighters to leave the offensive in Middle Euphrates Valley to fight elsewhere
February/March 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani: February/March 2019 Battle of Baghuz Fawqani, part of the larger Deir ez-Zor campaign and encompassing the immediate surroundings of the Syrian town of Al-Baghuz Fawqani along the eastern banks of the Middle Euphrates River Valley
March 2019 SDF liberated final area held by IS terrorists: 10 mars 2019: Jour après jour, hommes, femmes et enfants quittent le dernier village de Baghouz encore tenu par l'Etat islamique en Syrie - 23 March 2019: Syrian Democratic Forces announces it has liberated final area held by Islamic State terrorist group in village of Baghouz, saying caliphate is gone but pledging to fight remnants and commemorating 'thousands of martyrs whose efforts made the victory possible'
26 March 2019: 26 March 2019: The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria has called for the creation of an international tribunal to try thousands of suspected members of the Islamic State group, as official Abdul Karim Omar said they were struggling to cope with the thousands who emerged from the last IS enclave of Baghuz


Hama Governorate: Hama Governorate - Hama city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria
1964 Hama riot after the 1963 Ba'athist coup d'état: 1964 Hama riot after the 1963 Ba'athist coup d'état
April 1981 Hama massacre: April 1981 Hama massacre
February 1982 Hama massacre: February 1982 Hama massacre, 10,000–40,000 Syrian citizens murdered by the Assad regime
2011 Siege of Hama, 2011-2012 Hama Governorate clashes: July-August 2011 Siege of Hama, 16 civilians killed in early July 2011, 200 civilians killed during Ramadan offensive - 2011-2012 Hama Governorate clashes
June 2012 Al-Qubeir/Hama massacre: June 2012 Al-Qubeir/Hama massacre
April 2014 Kafr Zita chemical attack: April 2014 Kafr Zita chemical attack
2015 Northwestern Syria offensive in Idlib and Hama Governorates: April-June 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive in Idlib and Hama Governorates
May 2016: 3 May 2016: Activists voice concerns for Hama prisoners' safety as inmates stage riots to protest against the return of detainees to the infamous Saidnaya prison
2017-2018 Northwestern Syria campaign: 2017-2018 Northwestern Syria campaign, a large-scale military operation that initially started in the northern Hama Governorate, then the Syrian Armed Forces launched their offensive against HTS and other rebel groups in the area of the provinces of Hama, Idlib and Aleppo
Since September 2018 so-called demilitarization agreement and bombardments: Since September 2018 so-called demilitarization agreement between Turkey and Russia to create a 'demilitarized zone' in Syria's rebel held Idlib, parts of Aleppo, Hama and Lattakia Governorate - Bombardments on 'demilitarized zone' in Syria's rebel held Idlib, parts of Aleppo, Hama and Lattakia Governorate
Since January 2019 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people: Timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people January–April 2019
March 2019 bombardments: In March 2019 most extensive and heaviest bombardment in weeks, as Assad's and Russian warplanes pounded the rebel-held enclave in the Idlib-Hama-east Latakia region, deemed a 'de-escalation zone' since 2018, and confirmed by Russia in coordination with Turkey
March 2019 refugees: 19 March 2019: At least 750 households have fled the village of Hwaiz in northern rural Hama to Idlib province over the past month to escape the Assad regime’s intensive shelling, causing massive destruction to civilian homes


Al-Hasakah Governorate: Al-Hasakah Governorate - Al-Hasakah city in the far north-eastern corner of Syria with a mixed population of Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians
2013-2015: 2013–present Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict - February–March 2015 Al-Hasakah offensive - May 2015 Al-Hasakah offensive, YPG and allied forces capture the Tell Tamer and Ras al-Ayn countrysides, including 230 towns, villages, and farms, as well the Abd al-Aziz Mountains
2016: 4 March 2016: Local activists in Hassakah province said tens of people have faced murder, torture, displacement and looting by the dominant Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG militia - 23 March: Assad regime bars 'Save the Children' from accessing schools in Kurdish-controlled Hassakeh - 4 April: 14-year-old Bilal Mujhem al-Tallaa killed and two others injured after Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SFD) shoot into crowd of protesters in town of Haul protesting against the SDF’s refusal to let residents return to their homes - 19 May: Clashes between the Kurdish Asayish forces on the one hand and regime forces and allied militias on the other resulted in the burning of crop yields in Hassakeh, as fighting also erupted in Hassakeh City and regime mercenaries were shooting heavy fire in the central market - 22 August 2016: Violent clashes in the city of Hasakah, silence, and continued clashes between Assad regime forces and Kurdish fighters, amid advances for the Kurdish forces taking control on wide parts of Gweran Sharqi
July 2018: 6 July 2018: Residents of Qamishli, a liberal enclave that has only grown amid Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011, greet would-be Jewish returnees with open arms -- but Islamist factions still pose a threat
September 2018: September 2018 Qamishli clashes


Homs Governorate: Homs Governorate, geographically the largest governorate of Syria - Homs city in western Syria located on the Orontes River
2012: May 2012 Houla massacre - 27 May 2012: The UN Security Council condemns the killings, confirmed by United Nations observers, of dozens of men, women and children and the wounding of hundreds more in the village of El-Houleh in attacks that involved a series of government artillery and tank shellings on a residential neighbourhood - 1 June 2012: Journalists reconstruct the events of 25 May in interviews with survivors of the Houla massacre, which reveal the full story of the bloody horror that left more than 100 Syrians dead
2015: Since November 2015 Homs offensive launched by regime forces backed by Russian regime
2016: 4 February 2016: Drone footage of Homs in western Syria, the contry's third largest city, shows the devastation of four years of Assad's, Russian and Iranian war against Syrians - 11 February 2016: Syrian regime forces killed 14 civilians in the northern countryside of Homs as they fled the embattled rebel-held area towards Idleb province, as Russian regime has conducted more than 300 raids on rebel-held provinces of Hama and Homs in 10 days, also dropping leaflets urging rebels to surrender before being exterminated - 29 February: Media activists in the central Homs province record 12 cases of cease-fire violations in the province’s northern countryside by regime forces and its allied Shiite militias since the truce entered into force on Saturday - 19 March: Syrian Coalition’s political committee holds teleconference with Homs provincial council, whose head Abu Wael Idris explains how the Assad regime prevents food from entering liberated and besieged areas
30 March 2016: Around 70,000 people have fled Palmyra during the recent regime-led offensive to retake the desert city of Palmyra from the Islamic State terrorists, as the Assad regime's, its Russian allies' and Hezbollah's offensive was not just a battle against the extremists, which seized the ancient city in May last year, but was in large part against the civilians themselves
15 April 2016: Pro-regime shabeeha militias killed two students at the Baath University in Homs, their only fault being that they were from rebellious districts of the city
23 May 2016: After at least 27 people were killed and around 112 were wounded in continued attacks on the rebel-held area Alhoula local council calls for urgent international action to stop regime and Russian assault
8 September 2016: Residents of the besieged district of Waer in Homs went out in a stand of solidarity in rejection of attempts by the regime to empty the neighborhood
30 November 2016: Opposition negotiators of the Homs neighborhood of Waer are pointing to an older truce agreement after being heavily bombed with rockets and napalm for almost two weeks straight
2017: 9 January 2017: Medical supplies are drying up in the Homs' last rebel-controlled area Waer which is facing a major shortage due to regime-imposed siege
July 2018: 12 July 2018: Assad regime’s security forces and shabiha militants have detained people who have newly returned to their homes in northern rural Homs, according to activists saying that those who have been detained have previously rejected the forced settlement agreements the Assad regime imposed on residents
17 February 2023 at least 53 people killed in a terrorist attack east of Homs: 17 February 2023: At least 53 people were killed in an attack east of Homs in central Syria during an attack by the terrorists of IS to the south-west of the town of Al-Sukhna, as Palmyra hospital's Walid Audi, said those killed were 46 civilians and seven soldiers, and as many people, including women and children, have been targeted in recent years while truffle hunting in central, north-eastern and eastern areas of Syria


Idlib Governorate: Idlib Governorate situated in northwestern Syria, bordering Turkey
Settlements, cities and villages in Idlib province: Settlements, cities and villages in Idlib province
September 2011 – March 2012 Idlib Governorate clashes: September 2011 – March 2012 Idlib Governorate clashes
March 2012 First Battle of Idlib: March 2012 First Battle of Idlib
March-May 2014 Idlib opposition offensive: March-May 2014 Idlib opposition offensive
Idlib city: Idlib city is major agricultural center of Syria, in 2010 its population was around 165,000
History and timeline of Idlib city since 2,350 BC: History and timeline of Idlib city since ancient times, as Ebla tablets 2,350 BC mention a city which is most probably located at Idlib
Since Arab spring 2011 timeline of Idlib city: History and timeline of Idlib city since the uprising during the Arab spring 2011, Idlib was the focus of protests and fighting in the early phase of the Syrian war. As the uprising was oppreses by the Assad regime, it descended into armed conflict. Idlib became the focus of a rebel campaign, which temporarily captured the city and the governorate, prior to a government offensive in April 2012. After this, government forces retook the city and the rebel-controlled province after a month of fighting, prior to the attempted enforcement of the ceasefire proposed by Kofi Annan. After the 2015 Idlib offensive in March, the rebel alliance Army of Conquest, led by the al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham, succeeded in the Second Battle of Idlib and captured the city
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.
22 July 2022 murderous Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province: 22 July 2022: Seven civilians, including four children from one family, have been killed in a Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, as well as family members and medical staff. Friday’s attack on the village of al-Jadidah, near the city of Jisr al-Shughour, also injured 12 others, including eight children.
Nayrab village in Idlib province: Nayrab village located in Idlib Nahiyah in Idlib Governorate, Syria, with a population of 2675 citizens in 2004
30 July 2022 Milky Way glimmers over Idlib governorate's Nayrab town: 30 July 2022: Timelapse images show the Milky Way galaxy glimmering in the night sky as it eerily lights up the town of al-Nayrab, in Syria's northwestern Idlib region, on the frontline between Assad regime forces and rebel fighters
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
March 2015 Second Battle of Idlib: March 2015 Second Battle of Idlib - 30 March 2015: Syrian Coalition welcomes steps taken by rebel factions to form a governing council in recently liberated Idlib, to provide services and to defend civilians - April-June 2015 Northwestern Syria offensive in Idlib and Hama Governorates
2016: 9 March 2016: Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement, a key Syrian rebel group, condemned the fierce break up of Monday's anti-regime demonstration in Idleb city and the arrest of prominent media activists by the Nusra Front-led Jaish al-Fatah (so-called Army of Conquest) - 28 March: 'Radio Fresh' member Ahmed Raslan kidnapped by armed and masked men in Idlib countryside - 31 March 2016: Assad regime warplanes carried out air strikes on the northern Idlib province, killing a child and wounding six people, also targeting the towns of Najiya and Bdama with barrel bombs - 21 April 2016: Nine-year-old Imran Idlebi dies in regime airstrikes on northern town of Maarat al-Nouman in Idlib province weeks after winning the local marathon - 19 August 2016: 15 days of constant bombardment by Assad regime and Russian forces puts Idlib health directorate out of service - 1 Octobber 2016: Syrian Civil Defence volunteer weeps after rescuing baby from the rubble of a four-storey building in Idlib hit by an airstrike carried out by Assad regime terrorists
2017: 18 January 2017: School teachers in the southern Idlib countryside have turned ammunition and rocket crates into desks for students after the school’s seats were destroyed in air strikes, as Iran increases stake in Assad regime's oil, communications and other sectors
2018: 2 January 2018: Idlib rebel groups unite under new joint operations room in the southern countryside to confront attempts by Assad’s forces and allied militias to advance after the regime reached the outskirts of the city of Al-Tamanah - 9 January 2018: Tens of thousands of people have fled a murderous Iranian and Russian backed assault on Idlib, Syria’s last rebel-held province, prompting warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe, as displaced people seek refuge and hospitals are ‘systematically targeted’
August 2018: 14 August 2018: Antiquities museum, damaged by air strikes and housing clay tablets dating back to 2400-2300 BCE showing invention of written alphabet, reopens in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib
September 2018: 18 September 2018: Relieved locals and rebel groups in Idlib have been trying to unpick details of an eleventh-hour truce that excludes much of the northern Syrian province from a Russian-led attack for at least one month and sets up a buffer zone intended to shield 3 million civilians - 18 September 2018: Syrian Coalition's Mustafa welcomed the agreement on Idlib as averting an unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the region facing threats of Assad's and Iranian regime to attack, stressing that the agreement can pave the way for the revival of the political process to find a comprehensive political solution in Syria - 18 September 2018: Northern Syria's emergency response coordinators say international community should contribute to stability in Syria’s north
November 2018: 24 November 2018: Syrian activists Raed Fares, since 2011 known and persecuted for his criticism of the Assad regime, jihadist groups and Western leaders he believed failed to stop the violence in Syria, and Hamod Jnaid, an advocate for freedom of expression and the rule of law, were 'shot dead by unknown assailants riding in a van in the town of Kafr Nabal' in the northwestern province of Idlib, according to their radio station Fresh FM
December 2018: 22 December 2018: Human rights activists called for bringing the Assad regime and its symbols to justice as they marked the 7th anniversary of the Massacre of Badmaya Valley that claimed the lives of dozens of people
Since April 2019 Assad's northwestern Syria offensive: Since April 2019 offensive by the Assad regime forces, its Russian and other allies against northwestern Syria including northwest Hama, southern Idlib and northeastern Latakia
June 2019: 9 June 2019: Hundreds of mourners attended the burial of Syrian goalkeeper Abdel-Basset al-Sarout and popular singer of protest songs against Assad regime after he died of wounds sustained in battle against regime forces
Since December 2019 Russian and Assad's northwestern Syria offensive: Since December 2019 northwestern Syria offensive, codenamed 'Dawn of Idlib 2', a military operation launched by the Syrian Assad, the Russian, Iranian regime, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups against Syrian opposition
2019/2020 humanitarian consequences of Russian and Assad's offensive and resistance: 2019/2020 humanitarian consequences of Russian and Assad's northwestern Syria offensive - Since 2020 Turkish military operation in Idlib Governorate to maintain 2018 Idlib demilitarization agreement and to prevent mass murder of Syrian civilians
12 February 2020 Assad's and Russia's offensive sparks biggest refugee exodus: 12 February 2020: Assad's and Russia's Idlib offensive sparks biggest refugee exodus of Syria war, seeing around 700,000 people fleeing offensive, UN says
March 2020 dozens of aid workers killed and displaced by Assad and Russia in Idlib province: 12 March 2020: Dozens of workers from Syrian relief organizations participated in a solidarity rally north of Idleb, offering condolences for colleagues killed over the past few weeks in the bombing campaigns by Russia, Iran and Assad in Idleb and Aleppo provinces - 13 March 2020: Hounded by war, can Idlib's desperate civilians outrun final assault, 'The Guardian' asks
22 July 2022 murderous Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province: 22 July 2022: Seven civilians, including four children from one family, have been killed in a Russian air attack in northern Syria’s opposition-held Idlib province, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, as well as family members and medical staff. Friday’s attack on the village of al-Jadidah, near the city of Jisr al-Shughour, also injured 12 others, including eight children.
15 March 2024 protests in north-west Syria mark 13 years since start of fight for democracy: 15 March 2024: Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Syria’s rebel-held north-west to mark 13 years since pro-democracy protests swept the country, chanting against President Bashar al-Assad and the region’s jihadist rulers. The government’s brutal suppression of the 2011 uprising triggered a civil war that has killed more than half a million people, drawn in foreign armies and jihadists, and divided the country, 'The Guardian' reports - 15 March 2024: Commemorating 13th anniversary of Syrian Revolution, the people from several towns and cities in Idlib go out in protests demanding toppling of Bashar Al-Assad and Al-Julani, SOHR reports


Lattakia Governorate: Lattakia Governorate
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.
Ugarit ancient port city: Ugarit ancient port city in northern Syria, in the outskirts of modern Latakia, discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts. Its ruins are often called Ras Shamra after the headland where they lie. Ugarit had close connections to the Hittite Empire, sent tribute to Egypt at times, and maintained trade and diplomatic connections with Cyprus (then called Alashiya). The polity was at its height from c. 1450 BC until its destruction in c. 1185 BC, possibly caused by the mysterious Sea Peoples or internal struggle. The kingdom would be one of the many dismantled during the Bronze Age Collapse.
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
History of Latakia in the modern era since 1945: History of Latakia in the modern era since World War II 1939-1945
Timeline of Latakia, documented since 183 CE: Timeline of Latakia, documented since 183 CE. Since 330 CE part of the Eastern Roman Empire, since 528 CE declared capital of the Byzantine province of Theodorias, since 616 CE part of the Umayyad Caliphate, since 637 CE part of the Rashidun Caliphate
20th century timeline of Latakia: 20th century timeline of Latakia
12 February 1928 British-Syrian musicologist Raoul Gregory Vitale born in Latakia: British-Syrian Raoul Gregory Vitale, born in Latakia on 12 February 1928, was a Syrian musicologist who introduced the total description of the ancient Babylonian musical scales used in Music of Mesopotamia and Near East, and also a complete interpretation of the musical notation of the Hurrian Hymn 6 discovered in Ugarit which is considered to be the first known complete musical notation
21st century timeline of Latakia: 21st century timeline of Latakia
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
2015/2016 Lattakia offensive by Assad regime forces backed by Russian regime: 2015–present Lattakia offensive launched by government forces backed by Russian regime to take control of rebel-held territory bordering Turkey
April 2016 Syrian Alawites distance themselves from Assad: 4 April 2016: Syrian Alawites distance themselves from Assad - 23 mai 2016: L'explosion simultanée de sept voitures piégées, dont cinq conduites par des kamikazes de l'EI a provoqué un carnage à Tartous et à Jableh - 4 July 2016: Assad regime bans sit-in in loyalist areas along Syria's coast over rising price of fuel after a number of loyalists also organized a protest last month in the capital Damascus - 22 August 2016: Lattakia province has witnessed an unprecedented rise in crimes of gangs targeting elderly people inside their homes following a number of high-profile cases involving murder and robbery in the coastal city, the perpetrators described on Facebook pages as 'armed gangs of (pro-Assad) shabeeha' militants
October 2019 Latakia wildfires: 15 October 2019: Two members of forestry department in Lattakia died, and eight others were wounded by fires and asphyxiation, when fires broke out in the al-Ananeeb village forest in the al-Qardaha countryside area in Lattakia
15 October 2019 Assad's helicopters bombarding the area of Kabani: 15 October 2019: Assad's helicopters took turns in bombarding the area of Kabani in Latakia countryside by barrel bombs, while sporadic clashes by medium and heavy machineguns took place in the area of Al-Rakaya, accompanied by artillery shelling from positions of the regime forces targeting Rakaya Sajnah in the southern countryside of Idlib
15 October 2022 Assad regime forces, factions exchanged mortar shells north of Latakia: 15 October 2022: Assad regime forces and 'Al-Fath Al-Mubin' operations room faction exchanged mortar shells on Kabbanah frontline in Jabal Al-Akrad, north of Latakia


Quneitra Governorate: Quneitra Governorate is situated in southern Syria, notable for the location of the Golan Heights - Quneitra in south-western Syria is situated in a high valley in the Golan Heights


Ar-Raqqah Governorate: Ar-Raqqah Governorate is situated in the north of the country - Ar-Raqqah city located on the north bank of the Euphrates River
Since 2013 Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict: 2013–present Syrian Kurdish–Islamist conflict - 31 May 2015 – present 'Tell Abyad Campaign' in the northern Ar-Raqqah Governorate conducted by Kurdish People's Protection Units YPG and allied Free Syrian Army against the 'Islamic State' terrorists and linking the Kobanî and Jazira Cantons in Northern Syria
February/March 2016 Battle of Tel Abyad: February/March 2016 Battle of Tel Abyad - February 2016–present Ithriyah-Raqqah offensive
Since November 2016 SDF Raqqa campaign the Islamic State terrorists: Since November 2016 Raqqa campaign, a military operation launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF against the Islamic State terrorists in the Raqqa Governorate, and concurrent with the Battle of al-Bab in the Aleppo Governorate, the Battle of Mosul, the Battle of Sirte 2016 in Libya, the Palmyra offensive 2017, the Central Syria campaign, the 2017 Mayadin offensive, and a reignition of fighting in Deir ez-Zor's siege
February/March 2017: 18 février 2017: Les cadres du groupe 'Etat Islamique' ont commencé à quitter la ville syrienne de Raqa devant l'avancée de l'alliance arabo-kurde soutenue par la coalition internationale - 14 March 2017: USA-led coalition airstrikes hit a school sheltering displaced families in Al-Kesrat village in Raqqa, killing at least 19 civilians and wounding 15 more, according to SOHR
Since May 2017 Raqqa Internal Security Forces RISF: Since May 2017 Raqqa Internal Security Forces RISF, a police unit that was formed by the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF, supported by the United States and Jordan, to handle the security in southern Raqqa Governorate, including Raqqa city, after the region's conquest from the Islamic State terrorists
June-October 2017 Battle of Raqqa and SDF victory: June-October 2017 Battle of Raqqa, the fifth and final phase of the Raqqa campaign 2016–2017 launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF against the Islamic State terrorist group with an aim to seize the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIL since 2014
October 2017: 19 October 2017: Liberation of Raqqa leaves tens of thousands of civilians displaced, as 'Save the Children' warns that 'some 270,000 people who have fled the Raqqa fighting are still in critical need of aid, and camps are bursting at the seams' - 23 October 2017: Who will pay for the reconstruction of Raqqa as estimates suggest that some 1,800 civilians died in the battle, that over 80% of the city has been damaged or destroyed and all of Raqqa’s prewar population of 300,000 Syrians had fled
November 2017: 30 November 2017: British Oliver Hall from Portsmouth, who was in Raqqa city helping to clear mines with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG, was killed while trying to save a young boy who had strayed into a building rigged with Islamic State's booby traps, as his unit – an all-foreign team of about 15 fighters – chaperoned a group of civilians back to their homes
June 2018: 5 June 2018: Rights group's researchers accuse USA-led coalition of showing little regard for lives of non-combatants, indiscriminately shelling city in battle for de-facto IS capital, saying the USA-led coalition’s 2017 assault on Raqqa killed hundreds of civilians and reduced sections of the city to rubble


Rif Dimashq Governorate: Rif Dimashq Governorate completely surrounds the city-governorate of Damascus
Since 2011 Damascus and Rif Dimashq offensives: Since 2011 Damascus and Rif Dimashq offensives
January 2012 Battle of Douma: January 2012 Battle of Douma
August 2012 Darayya massacre: August 2012 Darayya massacre
2013 Ghouta chemical attack: August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack
August–November 2014 Rif Dimashq offensive: August–November 2014 Rif Dimashq offensive
2015: 4 May 2015 - present Qalamoun offensive led by the Shi'ite Lebanese militia Hezbollah, backed up by Assad's army
Since July 2015 siege of Madaya: Since July 2015 siege of Madaya by a combination of Assad regime's forces and the allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah - 7 January 2016: Siege and starvation in Madaya, of the 23 people who have already died, 6 were under one year old, 5 were over 60 years old, and the other 12 were between five and sixty. 18 were men and 5 were women, MSF-supported medics say - 30 septembre 2016: Un témoignage depuis Madaya par Mirna Yacoub et l’UNICEF
November 2015: 20 November 2015: Regime offensive on Eastern Ghouta and three-week siege claims the lives of hundreds, including 69 children and 47 women, and sees the destruction of over 1,000 homes near the Syrian capital, local relief office reports - 20 November 2015: Eastern Ghouta activists say that regime forces and opposition factions in the area reached a 15-day trial ceasefire, starting Thursday
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
30 November 2016: The liberated Damascus countryside in cooperation with a women’s council in the eastern Ghouta organized the area’s first women’s conference in a preliminary step for women to enter organized political life in the Syrian revolution
2017: 29 April 2017: Gunfire targets thousands of demonstrators who got out to stop the bloody fighting between the major factions of the Eastern Ghouta
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
October 2017 Harasta provincial council elections: 30 October 2017: Elections were held in the FSA-held town of Harasta Rural Damascus to elect members of the provincial council
Since November 2017: Since November 2017 Battle of Harasta
November 2017: 27 November 2017: Activists in the Eastern Ghouta have launched a campaign on social media in an attempt to shine a light on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the eastern Damascus countryside due to the siege which is being imposed by regime forces and allied militia
January 2018: 9 January 2018: The local council in the town of Harasta east of the capital Damascus said that 52 civilians were killed and more than 150 others wounded as a result of heavy bombardment by the Assad regime forces over the past week, also using bunker-buster bombs
Since 18 February 2018 Assad's Rif Dimashq offensive and bombing campaign: In the February 2018 Rif Dimashq offensive eastern Ghouta is coming under a ferocious bombing campaign by regime forces who are backed by Russian air force - International reactions to Assad's bombing campaign
February 2018: 24 February 2018: As Assad's and Russian bombs fall on the besieged area of eastern Ghouta, women’s voices are at the forefront, partly because so many men are missing, having been killed or detained by regime forces in the early years of the war, killed fighting or still serving on the front line, and many of their peacetime roles are now filled by women
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
April 2018 Douma chemical attack: On 7 April 2018 a chemical weapon attack carried out by Assad regime's army on the city of Douma was reported to have allegedly killed at least 70 people, as opposition forces and medics on the ground claimed the chemical agents to be chlorine gas and sarin - 9 April 2018: The extremely bad medical situation in the city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta in the Damascus countryside has contributed to the increase of the toll of the chemical attack which the regime carried out on the city, which resulted in the deaths of 180 civilians and the wounding of more than 1,000 through asphyxiations
April 2019: 12 April 2019: Assad regime issued a decision to seize the property of dozens of residents of the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta in response to their participation and activism in the Syrian revolution, according to local media - 12 April 2019: The Assad regime detained at least 10 people in the provinces of Dara’a and rural Damascus on Thursday
August 2019 Assad's campaign of confiscations: 19 August 2019: People accused by the regime of being members of opposition groups are having their properties confiscated and sealed by the Military Security directorate


Tartus Governorate: Tartus Governorate is situated in western Syria, bordering Lebanon to the south, the Mediterranean Sea to the west - Tartus is the second largest port city in Syria - Russian regime's naval facility in Tartus under a 1971 Soviet-era agreement with Ba'athist Syria
May 2013 Bayda and Baniyas massacres


Rojava self-governing cantons in northern Syria: Rojava, also known as Western Kurdistan or Syrian Kurdistan, is a de facto autonomous region originating in and consisting of three self-governing cantons in northern Syria Afrin Canton, Jazira Canton and Kobanî Canton, and the unofficial Shahba region, in terms of governates Rojava is formed of most of al-Hasakah Governorate, northern parts of Al-Raqqah Governorate and northern parts of Aleppo Governorate - Demographics of Rojava
Economy of Rojava: Economy of Rojava
Qamishli city: Qamishli city in northeastern Syria on the Syria–Turkey border, adjoining the city of Nusaybin in Turkey. The Jaghjagh River flows through the city. With a population of 184,231 citizens in 2004 it is the ninth most-populous city in Syria and the second-largest in Al-Hasakah Governorate after Al-Hasakah. Qamishli in the 21st century is predominantly populated by Kurds with large numbers of Arabs and Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians. The city is the administrative capital of the Qamishli District in Al-Hasakah Governorate.
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.
Rojava conflict: Since July 2012 Rojava conflict or Rojava Revolution, a political upheaval, social revolution and military conflict taking place in Northern Syria, involving a coalition of Arab, Kurdish, Syriac and some Turkmen groups - Movement for a Democratic Society - Democratic Union Party in northern Syria - Syriac Union Party - Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria - Since 2011 People's Protection Units YPG - Women's Protection Units, an all-female Kurdish military organization since 2012 - Since 2013 Syriac Military Council - Asayish, the police force of the autonomous cantons within the Federation of Northern Syria Rojava - YPG–Free Syrian Army relations
Since 2015 Syrian Democratic Forces: Syrian Democratic Forces since 2015
October 2019 Syrian Democratic Forces: 2 October 2019: Syrian Democratic Forces, the greatest achievement of the 'international coalition' after the control of one-third of Syria, including 22 military bases and 70% of oil and gas fields
2020s Assad regime remains in control of a large part of the city and rural area: In August 2020, Assad regime forces reportedly clashed with USA troops near Qamishli, which resulted in the death of one Syrian soldier as two more Syrian soldiers were injured. In 2022, the Assad regime remains in control of a large part of the city centre as well as a substantial rural area to the south, including the airport, the border crossing, various government buildings, and many residential neighborhoods. The regime still organises the production and the distribution of the harvest in the southern countryside.
5 April 2022 Al-Qamishli shop owners start sit-up protest against rising taxes: 5 April 2022: SOHR reported that shop owners started a sit-in protest in front of the municipality in Al-Qamishli city, expressing their rejection of a decision issued by the municipality, rising taxes imposed on the shop owners.
Politics of Rojava: Politics of Rojava
Since January 2014 Constitution of Rojava: Since January 2014 Constitution of Rojava
List of political parties in North and East Syria: List of political parties in North and East Syria (Rojava)
2015 Rojava local elections: 2015 Rojava local elections
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
1 December 2017 Northern Syria regional elections: 1 December 2017 Northern Syria regional elections, as local councils for the Jazira Region, Euphrates Region and Afrin Region were elected as well as for the subordinate cantons, areas and districts of the regions of Rojava, and as the turnout was reported to be 69% of eligible voters - Results of the Northern Syria regional elections
December 2017 results of the Northern Syria regional elections: Results of the Northern Syria regional elections
Education in Rojava: Education in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria - Education and shools in Rojava - Since 2014 Mesopotamian Social Sciences Academy is a co-educational university in Qamishli, the capital of the de facto autonomous region, the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria
Since 2016 Rojava University in Qamishli: Since 2016 Rojava University in Qamishli, the capital of the de facto autonomous region Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, with curricula for medicine, engineering, sciences, arts, and humanities, additionally offering programmes for primary school education and Kurdish literature
October 2019 University of Rojava's women’s studies program: 14 October 2019: The University of Rojava in northern Syria this year launched a women’s studies program that seeks to educate its students on how to cope with everyday sexism
Human rights in Rojava: Human rights in Rojava - Ethnic minority and women's rights in Rojava
Legal system in Rojava: Legal system in Rojava
Foreign relations of Rojava: Foreign relations of Rojava
Rojava/Iraqi Kurdistan relations: Rojava/Iraqi Kurdistan relations
2015: 18 August 2015: Kurdistan’s politicized society confronts a sultanistic system
Since January 2018 Turkish aggression against Afrin: Since 20 January 2018 Turkish military operation, code-named by Turkey as 'Operation Olive Branch', in the SDF-controlled Afrin District and the Tell Rifaat Subdistrict - International reactions to NATO-member Turkey's aggression against Afrin
War crime reports by rights groups: War crime reports by rights groups concerning Turkish aggression against Afrin
February 2018 murder of Barin Kobani: 3 February 2018: Syrian Kurds on Friday accused Turkey-backed rebels fighting them of mutilating then filming the body of one of their female fighters, as Turkey remains silent after the victim, a member of the Kurdish People's Protection Unit YPG has been identified as Barin Kobani, who took part in a recent operation to drive the Islamic State terrorists from areas in northern Syria
March 2018: 16/19 March 2018: Human rights and environmental campaigner Anna Campbell from East Sussex, who initially travelled to Syria to join the USA-backed Kurdish struggle against Islamic State terrorists and was then volunteering with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units YPJ in the besieged city of Afrin, was killed when the convoy she was travelling in was struck by a Turkish missile on 16 March - 19 March 2018: Kurdish militia YPG withdrew from Afrin before dawn on Sunday, members blending in with an exodus of up to 150,000 civilians who had been fleeing the city since Friday


Demographics, human rights and culture in Syria: Demographics of Syria - Human rights in Syria - Ethnic groups in Syria
Armenians in Syria
Assyrians in Syria
2016: 24 June 2016: Release of the head of the Assyrian Democratic Organization's political branch Gabriel Moushe Qorriya, who was detained by Assad regime for nearly two and a half years, welcomed by Syrian Coalition, saying the regime's arrest of prisoners of conscience contradicts its claims about seeking a political solution and that it condemns the arrest of all political activists and dissidents - 24 June 2016: Syrian Coalition condemns the recent suicide bombing targeting the Assyrian community in the northern town of Qamishli which killed and injured a number of civilians, claiming the existence of a 'criminal scheme' designed to terrorize and expel the Assyrian community
October 2019 Turkey invades northeast Syria and Christians there are on the brink: 31 October 2019: Turkey invades northeast Syria and Christians there are on the brink, as Turkish-backed forces are moving into villages, that provided refuge for Assyrian Christians who fled Turkey over a hundred years ago
November 2019 Erdogan's factions displace threatened Assyrian families: 15 November 2019: Threatened Assyrian families almost completely displace from Tal Tamr town as Turkey-loyal factions reach its outskirts, except elderly people staying and facing attacks by Erdogan's factions in order to go deep in Tal Tamr, which come with Turkish air support via drones as well as intensive and violent ground shelling
19 November 2019 Assyrians, who escaped Islamic State terrorists, now fearing the Turks: 19 November 2019: Assyrian Christians, who escaped the occupation by Islamic State terrorists in 2015 and did not choose to emigrate, now anxiously watch the advance of Turkish forces towards their villages in the south of Hasakeh province, fearing being ‘pushed into exile’ once again since 100 years
Bedouins in Syria
Druze in Syria
16 June 2015: Druze youths fighting alongside Syrian army forces quit after regime sends them to fight in hometown of Suweida - 16 June 2015: Thousands of Israeli Druze took to the streets in the northern towns of Isfiya and Majdal Shams in a solidarity protest on behalf of members of their community caught up in the turmoil of the ongoing civil war across the border in Syria
Greeks in Syria
Iraqis in Syria - Refugees of Iraq, Iraqi nationals who have fled Iraq due to war or persecution
Jews in Syria derive their origin from two groups, from the Jews who inhabited the region of today's Syria from ancient times and from the Sephardi Jews who fled to Syria after the Alhambra Decree forced the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 CE - History of the Jews in Syria
Since 1948, the refoundation of Israel following Word War II caused by Germany and the Holocaust: History of the Jews in Syria since 1948, repession of Syrian Jews, at the same time banned from emigrating, in October 2015, with the threat of Islamic State terrorists nearby, nearly all of the remaining Jews in Aleppo were rescued in a covert operation and moved to Ashkelon in Israel, estimated 18 Jews remain in Syria
November 2015 rescuing the last Jews of Aleppo: 12 November 2015: Rescuing the last Jews of Aleppo
Kurds in Syria - Syrian Kurdistan - Syrian Kurdistan campaign 2012–present
2015: 16 June 2015: Kurds seize city of Tal Abyad, dealing a major blow to the 'Islamic State' terrorists
2016: 18 March 2016: Two hundred representatives of the 'self-administration' in the regions of Al-Jazira, Ain al-Arab (Kobani), and Afrin reached a final agreement on the terms of federal rule, electing joint presidents of federalist Kurdish areas of northern Syria Hadiyeh Youssef and Mansour Saloum - 4 July 2016: Opposition leaders meet in Istanbul to review circumstances behind the 2015 massacre which resulted in the deaths of over 200 civilians by Islamic State terrorists - 30 décembre 2016: Les organisations kurdes de Syrie et leurs alliés se sont entendus jeudi sur un projet de constitution pour les territoires qu'ils ont conquis aux dépens de l'Etat islamique
Palestinians in Syria - Palestinian refugee - Yarmouk Camp, a district of the city of Damascus populated by Palestinians with hospitals and schools, since 1957
2016: 12 May 2016: One in five Palestinians in Syria have fled country, according to UNRWA, saying 560,000 Palestinians in Syria before Assad's war since 2011 - 7 June 2016: Assad regime forces tortured Palestinian boy Mohamed Diab, who was detained three years ago at the age of 13 following protests in Hama city, to death for participating in demonstrations against the Assad regime, as the number of Palestinians tortured to death in Assad's prisons has reached 444 victims, according to the Action Group for Palestinians in Syria
Romani people in Syria
Turks in Syria are Syrian citizens of Turkish descent, who have been living in the Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire before its dissolution and continue to live in the country
Culture of Syria: Culture of Syria
Languages of Syria: Languages of Syria
Arabic language: Classical Arabic language of the 6th century and its modern descendants - Levantine Arabic spoken in the 100 to 200 km-wide Eastern Mediterranean coastal strip and considered one of the five major varieties of Arabic - Mesopotamian Arabic native to the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq as well as spanning into Syria, Iran, and southeastern Turkey - North Syrian Arabic, a variant of Levantine Arabic, mainly spoken in the region of Aleppo
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
Kurdish languages: Kurdish languages - as of 2009 studies estimate between 20 and 30 million native speakers of Kurdish in total - Northern Kurdish, a group of Kurdish dialects predominantly spoken in southeast Turkey, northwest Iran, northern Iraq and northern Syria and the most widespread dialect group of the Kurdish languages
List of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War: List of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War - 25 December 2014: UN agency maps extensive destruction to Syria’s cultural heritage
Music of Syria: Music of Syria - Syria has long been one of the Arab world's centers for cultural and artistic innovation, especially in the field of classical Arab music
Syriac music and Syrian chant: Syriac music - Syrian chant - as Syria was one of the earliest centers of Christianity, its style of chant is among the oldest in the world
Religion and freedom of religion in Syria: Religion in Syria - Freedom of religion in Syria
2015: 22 January 2015: Unknown gunmen loot Assyrian cathedral in Al-Hasaka - 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 - 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
2016: 15 August 2016: Russian air strikes hit Idlib in Syria destroying a large part of the Church of the Virgin Mary, the only church in the city, in addition to destroying much of the Christian district in a repeated assault
Education in Syria: Education in Syria
2017 Syria's interim government working to keep universities open in liberated areas: 30 May 2017: Syria's interim government is working to keep universities open in liberated areas despite risks faced by students and instructors due to the six-year conflict
August 2018 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011: 8 August 2018: SNHR said in a report that there were 4,360 incidents of attacks hitting 1,356 schools in Syria since 2011, which caused about half of them to go out of service, documenting the deaths of 528 civilians as a result of attacks on schools and educational institutions, as the Assad regime attacked 996 schools, the Russian forces are responsible for attacking 169 schools and the international coalition forces are responsible for attaching 87 schools
May 2020 students in opposition-held areas joined online education programs: 17 May 2020: Online English classes revive ties severed by war in Syria, as some 500,000 students in opposition-held areas are estimated to have joined online education programs according to a local NGO
Health in Syria: Health in Syria
October 2013 WHO says Syria fighting 'épidémie de poliomyélite': 30 octobre 2013: L'Organisation mondiale de la santé confirme que le nord-est de la Syrie est frappé par une épidémie de poliomyélite
2014 270,000 Syrians with disabilities and life-threatening infectious diseases: 5 December 2014: A Media Office report confirms that the Assad regime’s ongoing brutal campaign against the Syrian people have left more than 270,000 Syrians with disabilities, such as amputations, severe deformities, paralysis, and brain injuries - 23 December 2014: WHO says that the ongoing war in Syria has left a million people with mutilations or life-threatening infectious diseases, calling for giving unfettered access to besieged areas
Since March 2020 covid-19 pandemic in Syria: Since March 2020 Chinese coronavirus pandemic in Syria, reported to have spread to the country on 14 March 2020, based on indirect evidence from Pakistan, where among confirmed 14 imported COVID-19 cases some arrived from Syria, and as Syria is considered especially vulnerable to the epidemic due to ongoing Assad's, Russian and Iranian regime's war against the Syrian people and dire humanitarian situation
17 March 2020 shrines closed for renovations after coronavirus deaths: 17 March 2020: Sayeda Zeinab and Sayeda Ruqaya shrines in Damascus closed for renovations and sterilization, amid reports that Iranian fighters in the area have died from coronavirus
29 March 2020 Syria reports first coronavirus death: 29 March 2020: Health ministry said that a woman who died after being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment was found to have been infected by coronavirus in the first officially-reported death from the disease
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
2022/2023 cholera outbreak in Syria and Lebanon and timeline: Since September/October 2022 cholera outbreak in Syria and Lebanon, as the outbreak - currently ongoing in Syria - is particularly serious in North-western Syria, targeted since 2011 by Assad's war against the Syrian people and severely hit by the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes since February 2023
Healthcare in Syria: Healthcare in Syria
12th century hospital in Damascus built in 1154 and enlarged by the physician Badr al-Din: Nur al-Din Bimaristan, a large medieval 'bimaristan' (hospital) in Damascus, built in 1154, as in 1242 an extension was added by the physician Badr al-Din, representing the Hellenistic, western Asian and Egyptian scientific tradition
2011-2014 Assad forces systematically attacked the healthcare system in opposition-held areas since 2011: 14 May 2014: Assad forces have systematically attacked the healthcare system in opposition-held areas of the country over the past three years
December 2014 Assad regime have left more than 270,000 Syrians with disabilities: 5 December 2014: A Media Office report confirms that the Assad regime’s ongoing brutal campaign against the Syrian people have left more than 270,000 Syrians with disabilities, such as amputations, severe deformities, paralysis, and brain injuries
December 2014 Assad's war left a million people with mutilations or life-threatening infectious diseases: 23 December: WHO says that the ongoing war in Syria has left a million people with mutilations or life-threatening infectious diseases, calling for giving unfettered access to besieged areas
2015 Assad regime forces for 88% of its recorded attacks on hospitals and almost all recorded killings of medical workers: 12 March 2015: Physicians for Human Rights blame Syrian Assad regime forces for 88 percent of its recorded attacks on hospitals and almost all recorded killings of medical workers during the country's four-year conflict - 3 October 2015: Russian air force struck field hospitals providing medical care to civilians over the past two days, prompting the medical staff to declare a state of emergency and to evacuate all hospitals close to the Turkish border and in Hama province, Syrian Coalition says - 8 October: After Assad’s forces have struck hospitals and medical centers 307 times, killing 670 medics and destroying 225 hospitals and medical centers, Syrian doctor calls for construction of underground hospitals as Russian strikes continue the regime's targeting of civilian hospitals, adding that building one hospital would take a whole year
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
Children in Syria: Children in Syria - Massacres of the Syrian civil war - List of massacres during the Syrian civil war - Houla massacre 2012
August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack: August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack - 23 August 2013: Unicef says the global community has failed in its responsibility to the children displaced by the violence in Syria as the number of registered child refugees had reached 1 million - 24 novembre 2013: Plus de 11.000 enfants tués dans le conflit syrien, près de 400 par des snipers
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
2016: 15 March 2016: UNICEF report estimates up to 3.7 million Syrian children born into devastating conflict conditions, and that at least eight million children in Syria and the neighboring countries are in need of humanitarian aid, including 2.4 million Syrian refugee children - 23 August 2016: Syrian girl sings to mum before bomb explodes outside home
2017: 6 March 2017: Children in Syria are suffering from 'toxic stress', a severe form of psychological trauma that can cause life-long damage, as 5.8 million of the country’s children are in need of aid in Assad's war against the Syrian people since 2011, according to a study of 'Save the Children' and its partner agencies in Syria - 3 October 2017: Eight-year-old Syrian girl Bana Alabed who tweeted from Aleppo in 2016 documents horrors of daily bombardments in memoir
2018: 27 March 2018: As more than half million people killed in seven years of brutal ground and aerial bombing by the Assad regime and its allies, and as Syrian children have taken the biggest share in the horrible death toll, the unstoppable roar of Russia's warplanes has caused a heart attack for Lojain Said, taking the life of the schoolgirl who lived in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour, the Civil Defense rescue group says
July 2019: 27 July 2019: War monitors say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths, including 200 children, since the Russian-backed Syrian government offensive began in April
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
4 January 2022 some days ago two-year-old child died in Hawran neighbourhood of severe torture, many bruises: 4 January 2022: On 31 December 2021, a two-year-old child died in Hawran neighbourhood, as the child was a victim of his parent’s divorce. His father, shortly after the divorce, has married and took the child to live with him and his new wife. The father told his ex-wife that their boy died after falling on the house stairs. However, the forensic medicine report proved that the child died of severe torture and many bruises were found on the body especially on the head and face
Women in Syria: Women in Syria
2012-2014: 2 November 2012: Syrian Women's Forum for Peace kicks off in Cairo - Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace (SWFP) since 2012 - 23 January 2014: Syrian women have united to create a Syrian Women's Charter for Peace - 2 December 2014: Medic Umm Abdu has lost her husband and a son to the war in Syria, but the pistol-wearing woman refuses to abandon her embattled city Aleppo saying 'hell is never far away'
2015/2016: 30 January 2015: Kurdish people remember the women who died defending Kobani against IS terrorists - 17 November 2015: The Eastern Ghouta Women Center for Training and Rehabilitation organized a sit-in calling on the international community and the UN to work on protecting civilians from the fighting in Syria in general and in eastern Ghouta in particular, calling to stop the bombing of residential areas and the massacres and for opening humanitarian corridors to enter relief and medical aid - 1 September 2016: Women of Syria, a strong constituency for peace, says Insaf Hamad, member of the first-ever Women’s Advisory Board, composed of 12 independent civil society representatives from diverse backgrounds, who consult regularly with the UN Special Envoy for Syria
2017: 8 March 2017: A total of 23,502 women have been killed in Syria since March 2011, nearly 91% of the victims were killed at the hands of regime forces, according to SNHR
October 2017: 26 October 2017: The Syrian Women’s Movement called for a radical change in the structure of the authoritarian regime in Syria, a transition to a modern democratic, the establishment of a pluralistic state, and commitment to a peaceful and political solution in Syria
December 2017: 15 December 2017: Female detainees speak of horrors in Assad's prisons, as most of tens of thousands are detained in security branches without civil or military trial
9 March 2018 Eastern Ghouta women hiding in cellars with their children to escape brutal campaign: 9 March 2018: International Women's Day was celebrated across the world on Wednesday at a time when the women of the Eastern Ghouta are hiding in the cellars with their children to escape a brutal campaign waged by the Syrian regime on the area - 11 March 2019: Women in Syria are facing increasing pressure as they become the main breadwinners in their families and are victim to the worst abuses of the Assad regime, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights
August 2019 torture victim now refugee: 13 August 2019: After five years of physical and psychological torture in Assad's Adra Central Prison, Amina al-Mulhim was reunited with her children in the Turkish city of Istanbul, where they were living as refugees
4 January 2022 murder of Aya El-Refaay by her husband has ignited public anger: 4 January 2022: The murder of Aya El-Refaay, a 19-year-old Syrian female, by her husband has ignited public anger, a new crime added to the list of violations against Syrian women by their husbands after some day ago Aya El-Refaay arrived in Al-Mojtahed Hospital in Damascus after being resuscitated by her husband and his family. According to the hospital forensic department, there were signs of torture and severe beating on her body.
Media of Syria: Media of Syria
Since 2006 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR: Since 2006 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights SOHR, a UK-based information office whose stated aim is to document human rights abuses in Syria, and which has focused since 2011 on Assad's, Iranian and Russian regime's war against the Syrian people - SOHR's website
February 2011 Syrian Free Press: Syrian Free Press is a non-profit news organization that covers the latest events in Syria, founded in February 2011
Since 2011 Syrian Network for Human Rights SNHR: Since 2011 Syrian Network for Human Rights SNHR, a UK-based non-governmental organization, which monitors Assad's, Iranian and Russian regime's war against the Syrian people since 2011 - SNHR's website
Since 2011 Violations Documentation Center in Syria VDC: Since 2011 Violations Documentation Center in Syria VDC, a network of Syrian opposition activists documenting human rights violations perpetrated since 2011, to provide an independent documentation that may help any future justice-related procedures as the center's main sources of information include medical records, families of the victims and information received from the Imam of the mosque that performed burials - Violations Documentation Center in Syria VDC's website with Danish-held list of misdeeds
December 2013: 13 December 2013: Four activists, among them non-violent activist Razan Zaitouneh, from Syria's Violations Documentation Center were kidnapped by unidentified masked gunmen from the center's Douma office on the outskirts of Damascus
December 2014: 9 December 2014: Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira al-Khalil, Wael Hamada, and Nazem Hammadi - the Douma Four - remain missing a year after their abduction, 71 organizations said today
August 2017: 13 August 2018: New atack on the VDC office in Duma
January 2018: 1 January 2018: Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria, a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset 2011–2016, published by The Lancet Global Health
July 2018: 23 July 2018: As more than an estimated 500,000 people have been killed as a result of Assad's war against the Syrian people, the VDC has documented 188,957 of those deaths and mainly documents today the shelling and barrel bombs dropped by helicopters, the targeting of hospitals and bakeries in opposition-held areas, a notable trend particularly since the regime’s capacity was improved by the arrival of the Russians
2015 Syria’s first independent women's radio station: 15 October 2015: Syria’s first independent women's radio station, staffed exclusively by women, started broadcasting from the city of Amouda, in the country’s northeast, with a focus on the social aspects of life in the region
2017 crack-down on opposition journalists: 1 February 2017: Opposition website Enab Baladi says Syrian regime threatening to imprison those who practice journalism without permission, in an apparent effort to crack-down on opposition journalists covering the regime
Journalists killed during the Syrian civil war: List of journalists killed during the Syrian civil war - 29 septembre 2013: Le photographe syrien Abou Chouja, qui collaborait avec l'AFP, a trouvé la mort lors d'un bombardement dans la ville orientale de Deir Ezzor - 30 septembre: Le photographe Abou Chouja tué par une roquette alors qu'il pédalait - 21 December 2013: A Syrian photographer who took pictures for Reuters on a freelance basis has been killed while covering fighting in Aleppo - 10 December 2014: 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
2015: 4 May 2015: UNESCO awards its annual press freedom prize to Syrian journalist and rights activist Mazen Darwish who has been jailed by the Assad regime for more than three years - 22 September: Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan reported killed under torture in Assad prisons - 28 October 2015: The Assad regime is responsible for almost half the violations against Syrian journalists and media centers during the third quarter of 2015, a report by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression has found
2016: 25 June 2016: Syrian Coalition mourned the death of journalist Khaled Alissa, who was pronounced dead at a Turkish hospital of wounds he sustained in an assassination attempt along with fellow journalist Hadi Alabdullah in Aleppo on 17 June, and who sacrificed his life trying to document the crimes of the Assad regime against the Syrian people and to convey the truth to the world - 27 June 2016: Islamic State terrorists killed five journalists in the city of Deir-Ezzor, according to a video recording published on 26 June
2017: 4 February 2017: At least three journalists were killed and one more injured by Assad regime forces and Islamic State terrorists in January, SNHR says adding that nine more journalists and media activists, including two female media activists, were detained in January - 16 March 2017: In Syria, 211 journalists and citizen journalists killed in conflict which began with a wave of protests exactly six years ago, Reporters Without Borders say - 4 May 2017: 17 Palestinian journalists killed in Syria since March 2011, according to AGPS
2 November 2017: Marking the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, SNHR says in a report that at least 634 journalists and media activists have been killed in Syria in the past seven years
November 2018: 24 November 2018: Syrian activists Raed Fares, since 2011 known and persecuted for his criticism of the Assad regime, jihadist groups and Western leaders he believed failed to stop the violence in Syria, and Hamod Jnaid, an advocate for freedom of expression and the rule of law, were 'shot dead by unknown assailants riding in a van in the town of Kafr Nabal' in the northwestern province of Idlib, according to their radio station Fresh FM
Internet in Syria: Internet in Syria - Internet censorship in Syria - Syrian Free Press - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
2015: 11 September 2015: Activists in Suweida posted video clips of the demonstrations that took place in the city during the past two days, which demanded the Assad regime to be overthrown and Colonel Wafiq Nasser, head of the local military security service, to be held accountable for last week's explosions - 8 October 2015: Activists and human rights organizations call for the release of software developer and defender of freedom of expression Bassel Khartabil, held unlawfully since 2012 and transferred to an undisclosed location
2016: 18 November 2016: Syrian activists launch online campaign to support FSA
2018: 4 January 2018: As reports emerge about the siege of more than 350 regime fighters in the Vehicles Administration, a parallel war is ongoing on social media, as government ministries accused of 'treason'
Crime in Syria: Crime in Syria
Racism and antisemitism in Syria: Racism in Syria - Antisemitism in Syria and in the Arab World
Corruption in Syria:
2016: 5 April 2016: Mossack Fonseca, at the centre of the Panama Papers leak, serviced a string of companies for a top financier in Assad’s regime in the face of international concern about corruption within the Syrian regime
2018: 28 August 2018: Syria was ranked among the most corrupt countries in the world in 2017 as the Assad regime and Iranian militias continue to dominate state institutions - 29 August 2018: Assad regime forces have arrested a war profiteer in a regime-controlled area whose record includes manipulation and embezzlement amounting to two billion Syrian pounds
Political repression and torture in Syria: Political repression in Syria - Torture in Syria
United Nations OHCHR monitoring Syria's compliance with obligations of human rights treaties
Since 2011 Assad's war against the Syrian people: Since 2011 Assad's war against the Syrian people - Casualties of the Syrian Civil War
Refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people: Refugees of Assad's war against the Syrian people - Syrian refugee camps - Palestinian refugees as part of the Syrian refugee crisis
2012: 25 August 2012: Number of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries 'surpasses 200.000' - 9 novembre: En un jour 11.000 Syriens ont fui leur pays, dont 9.000 en Turquie, 1.000 en Jordanie et 1.000 au Liban - 19 November: Refugee children 'face winter risks' - 24 November: The number of Syrian refugees registered in neighbouring countries has nearly doubled since the beginning of September to more than 440,000, according to the the UN refugee agency - 19 December: The UN is appealing for $1.5bn to fund relief efforts for those affected by the conflict in Syria - 20 December: As 2012 draws to a close, Al Jazeera reports on the plight of a Syrian refugee family in Jordan
January 2013: 12 January 2013: The worst storms in a decade have passed, but for many Syrian refugees living in camps along the borders the weather remains bitterly cold - 17 January: Syria refugees hold elections in Turkish camp hoping to overcome the challenges they may face when they return to Syria - 24 January: Jordan launches urgent appeal for aid after 20.000 Syrian refugees cross into country over past seven days, fleeing aerial bombardments and missiles falling in towns and villages - 'What good are your cameras? We are getting no support from anyone', a Syrian says - 29 January 2013: Fleeing the war in Syria Palestinians become double-refugees
April/May 2013: 4 avril: Quatre millions de Syriens ont été forcés de se déplacer dans leur pays en raison du conflit, estime le HCR - 3 May: Russia and China have rejected UN Security Council plans to inspect Syrian refugee camps in Jordan - 7 May: The UN humanitarian office says, the number displaced inside Syria hits 4.25 million people - 18 May: The UN refugee agency says the number of Syrian refugees has surpassed the 1.5 million mark - 15 June: In Lebanon, traumatised Syrians from Qusayr struggle to survive
June-August 2013: 19 June: The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to the high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the UN says - 17 juillet: Près de 6 000 personnes fuient chaque jour les combats en Syrie, selon l’ONU - 23 August: Unicef says the global community has failed in its responsibility to the children displaced by the violence in Syria as the number of registered child refugees had reached 1 million
September/October 2013: 3 September: More than two million people have fled Assad's war against Syrians and another 4.25 million have been displaced, the UN refugee agency said - 26 September: Poor and desperate, Syrian refugees beg on Yemen's streets - 13 octobre 2013: Après le naufrage au sud de Malte qui a coûté la vie à des dizaines de migrants en majorité syriens, le Premier ministre maltais Muscat a déploré que la 'Méditerranée soit en train de devenir un cimetière' - 20 October: A boatload of 254 Syrian and Egyptian migrants including 94 minors landed in Italy on Sunday after a perilous voyage through rough seas from Egypt
November 2013: 4 November: UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the UN Security Council that 6.5 million people have now fled their homes and 9.3 million need outside assistance to survive - 21 novembre: Au Liban, les réfugiés syriens s'enfoncent dans la pauvreté - 29 November: UN highlights trauma of Syrian refugee children
December 2013: 3 décembre: Unicef et Oxfam s'alarment pour des millions de déplacés à l'approche de l'hiver - 12 December: Snowstorm brings new misery for Syria refugees
January-March 2014: 17 January: Assad regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk, reportedly killing at least 9 people and wounding many - 18 January 2014: Damascus Yarmouk refugee camp receives aid for first time in months after reports that people have died of hunger and lack of medical care - 27 January: Syrian refugees in Lebanon exceed 890,000 - 9 February: The refugee camp Yarmouk shames the world - 26 February: Syrians supplanting Afghans as world's biggest refugee group, UN says - 26 February: Queue for food shows desperation of refugees in Syria's Yarmouk camp, which has been under blockade for month - 14 March: UN says more than 9 million Syrians displaced in world's largest refugee crisis
April-June 2014: 3 April: The number of Syrians registered as refugees in Lebanon has surpassed one million, UN says - 19 April: Assad's blockade of Yarmouk refugee camp raises fears for 18,000 people left starving inside, with some already resorting to eating leaves and animal feed - 27 April: Palestinian families who have managed to escape Yarmouk refugee camp are now arriving in Lebanon with terrible stories of their suffering - 1 May: Jordan opens new Syria refugee camp for 130,000 people - 5 May: After talks at the Zaatari camp in Jordan with the UN commissioner Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon urge the implementation of a UN resolution demanding rapid unhindered access for aid - 20 May: Lebanon will have 1.5 million Syrian refugees by year end, UN says - 18 June: Mostly women and children killed by Assad regime helicopters in first attack on a refugee camp in southern Syria along the border with Jordan
December 2014: 1 December: More than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt face food crisis as UN funds dry up - 3 December 2014: Rights group urges Turkey to remove from its border with Syria landmines which have killed three people and wounded nine among more than 2,000 Syrian refugees camped in a minefield
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
2016: 7 February 2016: Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing Russian-backed regime's advance on Aleppo remain stranded near the Turkish border, with no sign that the Turkish government will respond to mounting international pressure to allow in more refugees uprooted by the escalating war - 8 February 2016: Turkish aid groups have delivered food and shelter to tens of thousands of refugees amassed across the Turkey-Syrian border following a sharp escalation in murderous assaults from the Russian and Iranian backed Assad regime forces - 13 February 2016: Drone footage shows the Bab al-Salama refugee camp on the Syrian border with Turkey - 14 April 2016: A new wave of refugees has fled northern Syria for the Turkish border after Islamic State opened fire on communities that had sheltered them, killing at least three people and uprooting thousands more, but find themselves being shot at by Turkish border troops - 26 June 2016: As the international community marked the annual World Refugee Day, the Syrian crisis has entered its sixth year, nearly 5 million Syrians are taking refuge all across the Middle East, also creating a desperate need for mental health services particularly among Syria’s children, while others continue to risk their lives for a chance to reach Europe’s doorsteps
April 2018: 26 April 2018: 10m Syrians at risk of forfeiting homes under new property law, as analysts say law leaves citizens who have opposed Assad regime facing permanent exile


Since January 2011 Syrian protests and Assad regime's war against the Syrian people: 2011/2012 Syrian protests (since January 2011) and uprising - Civil uprising phase of Assad regime's war against the Syrian people 15 March 2011 – 28 July 2011 - List of war crimes in Assad's war, no prosecutions since the beginning in 2011 - Massacres perpetrated, airstrikes conductec, and barrel bombs dropped by Assad's army - Siege of Hama 3 July - 4 August 2011
Since March 2011 Local Coordination Committees of Syria and since July 2011 Free Syrian Army: Local Coordination Committees of Syria since March 2011 - Free Syrian Army, first opposition army group on 29 July 2011 - Since 2011 factions of the Free Syrian Army - Since December 2016: Revolutionary Army composed of 5 FSA factions which mainly operate in the Daraa Governorate in southwestern Syria - Since March 2013 Syrian opposition, an umbrella term for Syrian opposition groups with certain territorial control in the form of a proto-state as an alternative Syrian government
Since 2011 Military operations of the Syrian Civil War involving the Free Syrian Army
Since August 2011 Turkey based Syrian National Council: Turkey based Syrian National Council (since August 2011)
Since November 2012 Qatar and Turkey backed 'National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces': 'National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces', founded in Doha in the Emirate of Qatar in November 2012 - National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (website) - Since March 2013 Syrian Interim Government
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
YPG–Free Syrian Army relations: YPG–Free Syrian Army relations - FSA groups allied with the YPG
November 2012: 5 November 2012: Free Syrian Army FSA and People’s Defense Units YPG say that both groups have reached an agreement on cooperation against the regime of Bashar Assad
October 2014: 23 October 2014: Free Syrian Army's Colonel Malik el-Kurdi criticized USA's Obama administration over airdropping weapons to the armed Kurdish factions that struggle to save Kobani from the Islamic State terrorists, saying 'it is disgusting politics for the U.S. to deliver weapons to the Kurds who have been fighting ISIS for only a month in a small town, while depriving the mainstream opposition for more than three years from any military and strategic aid while resisting the Assad regime that commits any kind of war crime'
2014/2015 Euphrates Volcano coalition: September 2014 – 10 October 2015 Euphrates Volcano coalition of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units YPG) and factions of the Free Syrian Army FSA, to expel IS terrorists from Aleppo and Raqqa provinces
August 2016: 30 August 2016: FSA factions in the SDF denounced Turkey’s targeting of civilians in which at least 20 died in Jeb el-Kusa and at least another 15 in al-Amarnah by airstrikes and artillery fire
Since 2014 Inter-rebel conflict: Since 2014 Inter-rebel conflict during Assad's war against the Syrian people - List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War
Since October 2015 Syrian Democratic Forces SDF: Since October 2015 Syrian Democratic Forces SDF alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrians, Armenian and Turkmen militias established during the Syrian Civil War, seeking to expel the Islamic State terrorists from the Ar-Raqqah Governorate and other areas in Syria - Since 2013 Syriac Military Council - Since 2015 Bethnahrain Women's Protection Forces, an all-female Assyrian military and police organization based in al-Qahtaniyah in al-Hasakah Governorate - Since 2012 Jabhat Thuwar al-Raqqa (Front of Raqqa Revolutionaries) rebel group and part of the Syrian Democratic Forces - Since May 2015 Army of Revolutionaries, a multi-ethnic armed Syrian rebel coalition and part of the Syrian Democratic Forces
November 2015: 18 November 2015: Over a dozen factions in the provinces of Idleb and Aleppo have announced they are joining the Syrian Democratic Forces SDF alliance
Since April 2016 Syrian Democratic Forces military councils: Since April 2016 Syrian Democratic Forces military councils, including the Manbij Military Council, the al-Bab Military Council, the Jarabulus Military Council, and the Deir ez-Zor Military Council
December 2015 first inside Syria Provincial councils conference, Supreme Council: 19 December 2015: The Syrian interim government-run provincial councils met on Thursday in their first conference inside Syria and agreed to form a Supreme Council for the provincial councils, consisting of the heads of the provincial councils, their deputies, and general secretaries in the provinces
September 2017: 6 September 2017: Interim Government announces formation of united 'National Army', after more than 44 military groups of the opposition forces have thrown their weight behind the project
March 2016: 7 March 2016: Following the Coalition’s bylaws, Syrian Coalition elected Anas Al-Abdah as new president succeeding outgoing President Khaled Khoja, also amending articles to allow previous presidents to run for president a year after the end of their term in office - 26 April 2016: Syrian Coalition's political committee to increase women representation by 15%, which will see the number of women in the General Assembly rise from 5 to 20
May 2016: 17 May 2016: Syrian Coalition’s General Assembly elected Jawad Abu Hatab head of the Syrian interim government, who will be forming a new government to be based in Syria to better serve the needs of the civilian population
July 2016: 19 July 2016: Syrian Coalition suggests Syria's main internal opposition group, the National Coordination Commission, is advocating regime crimes against civilians by attempting to distort the truth
January 2017: 21/23 January 2017: Deputy Syrian opposition president Steifo says that armed opposition group FSA and other rebel groups will form a joint council to monitor the ceasefire and core of National Army following negotiations with the regime in the Kazakh capital Astana - 26/27 January 2017: Rebel factions in Syria join forces in wake of Jihadist attacks, targeting the Free Syrian Army groups west of Aleppo this week, as the Syrian Coalition calls for the formation of an international coalition to oust all terrorist organizations from Syria and vows to continue the struggle against the murderous Assad regime, the Iranian occupiers, and all forces of terror, and as Syrian Opposition delegation to Astana rejects Russian attempts to impose draft constitution
Since May 2017 Turkish-backed TFSA faction: Since May 2017 Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army TFSA faction, partially reorganized as the Syrian National Army by Turkey since 30 May 2017, is an informal armed Syrian opposition structure mainly composed of Syrian Arab and Syrian Turkmen rebels operating in northern Syria
January 2018: 27 January 2018: Local Councils in Dara’a, Quneitra and Rural Damascus declare rejection of Sochi conference


January–April 2011: January–April 2011 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people, after protests began in Syria as early as 26 January 2011, erupted on 15 March 2011 with a 'Day of Rage' protest and after Assad regime's reaction to the protests became violent on 16 March and deadly on 18 March, when unarmed protesters were killed in Daraa - Background of Assad's war against the Syrian people since March 2011
15/16 March 2011: 15 March 2011: Pro-democracy protests in Syria appear to have started as a group of 200 mostly young protesters gathered in the Syrian capital Damascus to demand reforms and the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, as social media garner thousands of supporters, and after an independent Syrian MP from Aleppo on 11 March called for review of harsh emergency laws - 16. März 2011: Menschenrechts-Demonstration von Verwandten politischer Häftlinge in Damaskus mit Gewalt aufgelöst
18 March 2011: 18. März 2011: Assads Polizei hat in der im Süden gelegenen Stadt Daraa auf friedliche Demonstranten gefeuert, fünf getötet und Hunderte verwundet, von denen viele von Assads Schergen wieder aus dem Krankenhaus geholt und an einen unbekannten Ort gebracht wurden
April 2011: 28. April 2011: UN uneins gegen Assad - 29. April 2011: USA-Sanktionen gegen Assad
May 2011: 9. Mai 2011: EU-Sanktionen gegen Syrien - 21. Mai 2011: Nach landesweiten Protesten gegen das syrische Regime mit 44 Toten durch Assads Militär und Polizei läßt Assad auf Trauerzug schießen und mindestens 5 Syrer töten - 30 mai 2011: L'armée assiège de nouvelles villes - 30. Mai 2011: Folter und Ermordung des dreizehnjährigen Hamza al-Khatib
June 2011: 1 juin 2011: L'opposition Syrienne réunie en Turquie pour préparer la transition démocratique - 4. Juni 2011: Blutbad im syrischen Hama - 7. Juni 2011: Hinweise auf Meuterei in syrischer Armee - 9 June 2011: European nations demand UN resolution condemning Syria's violent actions - 9. Juni 2011: UN Sicherheitsrat soll über neue Syrien-Resolution abstimmen - 10. Juni 2011: 30.000 syrische Soldaten im Grenzgebiet zur Türkei im Einsatz - 10 June 2011: Assad's army attacks in Northwest - 11 June 2011: Deadly clashes in Jisr al-Shughur, witness reports - 11. Juni 2011: Schüsse auf Demonstranten aus Assads Helikoptern - 12. Juni 2011: Assads Panzerangriffe und Politik der verbrannten Erde - 12. Juni: Syrisches Militär stürmt Jisr ash-Shughur - UN-Resolution wegen China und Rußland fraglich - 15 June: Syria widens crackdown in north and east - 17 June: Syria's army enters towns in north - 17. Juni: Syrische Demonstranten trotzen Assads Gewalt - Syrian opposition sets up National Council - Asad vor Rede zur Lage der Nation - EU berät Verschärfung der Sanktionen - Proteste nach Asads Fernsehansprache - Arabische Liga stützt Asad - 21. Juni: Obama und Erdogan fordern Ende der Gewalt und demokratische Reformen für Syrien - EU verschärft Sanktionen gegen Syrien - Syriens Außenminister bezeichnet Europa als inexistent - Syrische Panzer in Dorf an türkischer Grenze - Syrian refugees flee army advance - USA warns Syria over conflict reaching Turkey border - New violence against protests on Friday - 25. Juni 2011: Panzer verhindern Trauerzug in Syrien - Opposants se réunissent à Damas 27/06/2011 - 29. Juni: Panzer in Mar Ajan und Isem - Razzien und erschossene Einwohner - "Nationaler Zusammenschluß der Kräfte des demokratischen Wandels" in Syrien am 30. Juni gegründet - 30. Juni 2011: Proteste in Syrien greifen auf Aleppo über
July 2011: 1. Juli: Widerstand gegen Asad nun auch in Aleppo - Asads fortgesetzte Gewalt verhindert Proteste am 1. Juli nicht - 2 July 2011: Hama governor sacked after massive anti-government demonstrations - 3 July 2011: Syrian tanks 'deploy outside Hama' - 4. Juli 2011: Syrische Streitkräfte rücken in Hama ein - 5 July 2011: Syrian troops are reported to have shot dead at least six protesters in Hama - 8. Juli: Hunderttausende demonstrieren gegen Asad - Hama als Symbol des Widerstandes - 9. Juli: Syrische Offiziere sollen Schüsse auf Zivilpersonen befohlen haben - Asads 'Nationaler Dialog' beginnt ohne bekannte Oppositionelle 10. Juli - Le ton montre entre Paris et Damas - 11 July 2011: Syrian forces 'raid central city of Homs' - Botschaften Frankreichs und der USA von Assad-Anhängern attackiert - Nach Angriffen auf Botschaften spricht Hillary Clinton Assad die Legitimität als Staatschef ab - 13. Juli: Barack Obama warnt Assad - 14 July: Syrian forces kill protesters in the city of Deir al Zour and in the Jebel al-Zawiya region - 15. Juli: UN-Sicherheitsrat berät über syrisches Atomprogramm - "Die Hölle ist losgebrochen" - Erneut Tote bei landesweiten Protesten in Syrien am 15. Juli - 17. Juli: Syrische Soldaten desertieren - Proteste und Repression weiter verschärft - 18/19 July: Syrian troops kill civilians im Homs - 19. Juli: Tote durch Regierungsgewalt bei Begräbnis - 'Bodies on the streets' in crackdown in Homs - 22. Juli: Massenproteste in Syrien nach Freitagsgebeten - Homs mourns Friday deaths 23 July - 25 July new law - political parties in Syria? - 29. Juli: Zehntausende demonstrieren in ganz Syrien gegen die brutale Unterdrückung und gegen die Passivität anderer arabischer Länder - 31. Juli: Panzereinheiten stürmen syrische Protesthochburg Hama am Sonntagmorgen - 31. Juli: Schockiert über Massaker verurteilen UN, EU und USA die Gewalt und Brutalität des Assad-Regimes am Vortag des Ramadanbeginns - rechtliche Konsequenzen Thema
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
September 2011: 1. September: Berichte von Kämpfen zwischen desertierten Soldaten und Regierungsmilizen im Grenzgebiet zum Irak - 2. September: Asads Soldaten erschießen erneut Demonstranten - die meisten Opfer in einem Vorort von Damaskus - 3. September: Rußland kritisiert EU-Ölembargo gegen Syrien - auch China blockiert weiterhin - 7 September: Syrian forces 'launch fresh assault on Homs' - 8. September: Viele Tote durch Staatsterror vor allem in Homs - 8. September: Auch Irans Ahmadinejad fordert Asad auf, die Niederschlagung der Proteste zu beenden - Aufnahme eines Dialogs verlangt - 9 September 2011: Syrian opposition calls for foreign help - 13. September: Massive Militäroffensive Asads - 14. September: Asads Armee stürmt Gebirgsregion nahe der türkischen Grenze - 16 September 2011: Syrian National Council of about 140 members to present united front against Assad regime - 16. September: Wieder Tote bei Razzien in Syrien - 17 September: Protests across the country - dozens reported dead in ongoing crackdown - 17 September 2011: Syrian opposition meet in Damascus to support protests - 19 September: Syrian dissidents 'killed in raids' in Homs - 23 September: An 18-year-old woman dies in detention - 23 September: More people killed by Assad's forces across Syria as EU steps up sanctions - 26 September: Tanks bombard central town of al-Rastan - 28 September: New draft resolution drops demand for immediate UN sanctions - 30. September: Am Freitag wieder Demonstrationen von Zehntausenden in ganz Syrien - Berichte von Rebelleneinheiten
October 2011: 2 October: Syrian opposition launches joint National Council - 2 octobre: L'opposition se dote d'une structure réunissant tous les courants anti-Bachar - 5. Oktober: Rußland und China verhindern UN-Resolution gegen Asads Gewalt - 5 October: Europe, Turkey and the US condemn China's and Russia's veto of the UN-resolution - Turkey will 'inevitably impose right now a package of sanctions' - 5 October: Europe, Turkey and the US condemn China's and Russia's veto of the UN-resolution - Turkey will 'inevitably impose right now a package of sanctions' - 6. Oktober: Syrische Opposition protestiert landesweit gegen das UN-Veto Rußlands und Chinas - 6 October: Syrian troops cross into Lebanese territory and kill Syrian farmer in Lebanon - 7 October: Syrian troops pursue armed defectors near the Turkish boarder - 7 October: More than 20 Syrians killed at Friday protests - support of the newly formed opposition front - 8. Oktober: Zehntausende Syrer demonstrieren nach der Ermordung des kurdischen Nationalratsmitglieds Tamo und werden beschossen - 10 October: Dozens killed in clashes across Syria on Sunday - 21. Oktober: Asad läßt wieder Demonstranten gegen seine Gewaltherrschaft töten
November 2011: 2 November: Assad's regime agrees to Arab League plan including the removal of tanks and armoured vehicles from the streets - immediate implementation of all articles in the plan demanded - 7 November: Arab League wants new meeting ... on Saturday 12 November - was there an agreement on Wednesday 2 November to end the bloodshed? - 7 November: Homs a 'disaster area', says Syrian National Council calling for international action to stop the massacre - 9 November: UN Navi Pillay says Syria runs risk of Libya-style civil war as troops join the opposition - 10 November: Reports of an eight-year-old girl among more than 30 killed Syrians by Assad's regime - 11 November: Deadly crackdown continues some hours before the Arab League meets on Saturday - 14 November: Jordan calls on Assad to resign - 15 November: Dozens killed in Syria clashes - 15 novembre: À Homs plus de 70 personnes abattues lundi par le régime - 17 November: Arab League gives Assad regime three more days to stop 'the bloody repression' as supporters of Assad vandalise Arab embassies in Damascus - 19 November: Syria killings continue as peace deadline nears - 28 November: Assad regime commit systematic 'crimes against humanity' a UN report says - 28 November: UN report on human rights abuses as Assad regime calls Arab sanctions 'economic war' - 30 November: Turkey imposes sanctions on Assad regime, a government 'at end of the road'
December 2011: 2 December: Free Syrian Army members say they left Assad's forces because they were forced to shoot unarmed protesters - 2. Dezember: EU-Sanktionen - Britisch-holländischer Konzern Shell verläßt Syrien, der französische Konzern Total bleibt - 2 December: UN rights body condemns Syria violations and urges tougher international action - 12 December: Syrians hold strikes amid battles of Assad's forces and defectors in south - 12 December: Turnout of local polls expected to be low after activists call for boycott and deaths continue - 'Dignity strikes' - 13 December: UN Human rights chief calls situation in Syria 'intolerable' - 16 December: Syrians hold rallies to demand Arab action - 17 December: Syrian National Council holds congress in Tunisia as violence in Syria continues
January 2012: 6. Januar: Assads Truppen greifen Beobachterteam an - 6 January: Syria rocked by fresh bloodshed, Damascus blast and clashes kill many - 7 January: Dozens dead in Damascus bombing - 7 January: Colonel Suleiman and 50 soldiers defect from Syrian army saying they will keep protesters in Hama safe during demonstrations - 8 January: Foreign ministers from the Arab League to debate their observer mission and to discuss whether to ask for UN help - 8 January: Arab League monitor mission to continue despite a barrage of criticism and calls for their withdrawal - 8. Januar: Arabische Liga will trotz fortgesetzter Gewalt des Regimes Beobachtermission fortsetzen - SNC-Sprecherin Basima Kadami verlangt wegen des Scheiterns der Mission nach mittlerweile 14 Tagen die Übergabe dieser Aufgabe zur Erfüllung des Vertrags vom 2. November an die Vereinten Nationen - 12. Januar: Kämpfe in Syrien werden wegen der Zunahme desertierender Soldaten heftiger - Assad erhält neue Munition von Putin - 13 January: Turkey stops 'Freedom convoy' entering Syria - 13. Januar: Syrischer Nationalrat SNC und Freie Syrische Armee FSA vereinbaren enge Kooperation - 13 January: On Friday Syrians rally in support of army defectors - 14 January: Qatar calls for Arabs to send troops into Syria to stop Assad forces killing civilians - 15. Januar: UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon fordert von Assad ein Ende des Tötens - Unterdrückung, Gewalt und Zwang seien eine Sackgasse - 16 January: UN says it would start training Arab League observers working in Syria within days - 25. Januar: Großoffensive Assads in Hama - 26. Januar: Assad läßt die Stadt Duma bei Damaskus stürmen - 27. Januar: UN Sicherheitsrat diskutiert am heutigen Freitag die Lage in Syrien - 27 January: Syria activists report 'massacre' in Homs - 28. Januar: Rußland stemmt sich weiter gegen Syrien-Resolution des UN-Sicherheitsrates - 28 January: UN Security Council considers draft resolution amid an upsurge in violence - 28 January: Arab League suspends Syria mission - 29 January: Assad's military has launched an offensive near Damascus - 30 January: Syrian troops retake control of Damascus suburbs - 30 January: Free Syrian Army withdraws from Damascus suburb
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
May 2013: 2 May: Assad forces stormed the coastal village of al-Baida on Thursday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says - 3 May: Syrian National Coalition condemns the massacre in al-Baida and urges the international community to act to protect the country's people - 4 May: After the bodies of at least 62 murdered residents including 14 children have been found in a Sunni neighbourhood of the city of Banias, the Syrian National Coalition says that mass killings in the area raised the spectre of a campaign of ethnic cleansing - 9 May: Assad's air force was shelling rebel positions in Aleppo and Idlib as his troops pushed on with an offensive to reclaim more territory from the opposition - 11 May: Turkey claims evidence of chemical weapons use by Assad regime - 16 May: Opposition battles to free inmates from a prison in the key city of Aleppo - 19 May: A car bomb exploded near Shamdeen Square in Damascus killing at least five people and wounding others, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports - 20 May: As Assad's warplanes bomb Qusair and as his army is hitting the town with tanks and artillery from the north and east, Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah is firing mortar rounds and multiple rocket launchers from the south and west - 22 mai: L'opposition appelle tous les insurgés à venir combattre pour sauver Qousseir - 23 mai: L'opposition réunie à Istanbul avant la conférence de paix internationale - 24 mai: Quand l'opposition en débat à Istanbul, l'offensive du régime continue à Qousseir - 26 mai: La réunion de l'opposition prolongée à Istanbul, l'armée d'Assad avance à Dabaa - 27 May: Syrian opposition still divided amid international peace bid - 27 May: First-hand accounts given of chemical attacks against Syrian rebels by Assad regime - 28 May: Syrian village of al-Baida gives up secrets after dawn killings by Assad - 28 May: Indian-origin British doctor and two other civilians die in Syria bombing on hospital - 31 mai: Réunie à Istanbul l'opposition syrienne se dote de 40 nouveaux membres, condemnant l'invasion de l'Iran et de la milice chiite libanaise du Hezbollah en Syrie
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: 1 août: L'explosion d'un dépôt de munitions, appartenant à des milices pro-régime, à Homs fait plusieurs dizaines de morts - 2 August: Forty people have been killed and at least 160 more wounded in explosions at a weapons cache in Homs, activists' network says - 3 August: UN warns of plight of women, children in Syria's Homs - 3 August: Near the border with Lebanon an Assad warplane has killed at least nine people including six members of the same family and wounded nine others, targeting the opposition-held Syrian town of Yabroud just across the border from the Lebanese town of Arsal - 4 August: Syria's main opposition group SNC urges the United Nations to probe numerous massacres committed by Assad's forces during Ramadan - 5 August: Thirty people killed in heavy fighting in the Jabal Akrad mountains of east Latakia province - 5 August: Assad's forces used chemical weapons in an assault on Douma, a suburb of Damascus, video shows and Al-Arabiya reports - 6 Auagust: A bomb killed 10 people in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana - 6 August: Syrian rebels capture villages in the region dominated by Assad’s minority Alawite sect in the coastal Latakia province - 7 August: Before and after satellite images of Aleppo show major destruction ordered by Assad's regime forces - 8. August: Syrische Aufständische haben in Damaskus den Konvoi von Assad angegriffen, der unverletzt geblieben sein soll - 10 August: Assad air strikes killed at least 20 people in Latakia province in the northwest overnight - 11 August: Assad sends air force to thwart rebel advances in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect in Syria's north - 16 August: An airstrike by Assad's forces reportedly killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens of others in the city of Aleppo
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
November 2013: 7 November: Bomb attacks in Damascus and southern Syria killed at least 16 people, a day after Russia and USA failed to announce a date for proposed peace talks - 12 November: Syrian Coalition accepts Geneva peace talks and says Assad must go - 17 novembre: Au moins 31 soldats tués dans une attaque près de Damas - 22 November: Opposition forces in Syria seized key town of Deir Attiyeh in Qalamoun province that has been under army control since the outbreak of the conflict - 24 novembre: Plus de 11.000 enfants tués dans le conflit syrien, près de 400 par des snipers - 24 November: Fierce fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past two days as opposition forces battle to break siege of suburbs - 30 November: At least 20 people, including seven women and a child, were killed in an aerial bombardment on Saturday of Al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province
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
February 2014: 1/2 February: Assad's army killed 46 civilians in Aleppo barrel bomb raids and dropped more bombs on Aleppo on Sunday, bringing the death toll to at least 83 people - 4 February: Assad's regime extended its intense aerial campaign against Aleppo on Monday, conducting a series of airstrikes that killed at least 18 people, including five children - 7 February: A pause in fighting to evacuate civilians from besieged Homs is expected to begin on Friday - 8 February: After about 80 people were evacuated on Friday, the UN and aid agencies are hoping to deliver food and medicine to civilians trapped in Syria's third largest city Homs, under siege for 18 months - 8 February: An aid convoy bringing supplies to Homs became trapped for several hours after coming under attack from mortars and gunfire as it was leaving - 8 February: New aerial bombardment from Assad's explosives-packed barrel bombs in Aleppo killed at least 20 people on Saturday - 12 February: Assad's forces and allied terrorist organization Hezbollah reportedly step up assault near Lebanon border - 13 February: Assad's Russian warplanes and artillery bombard Syrian democracy stronghold of Yabroud - 19 February: Assad regime is using a powerful type of cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch says - 23 February: At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in a car bombing near a field hospital in Atmeh on the border with Turkey that serves as a main supply line for opposition fighters - 24 February: Two days after the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling and aerial attacks, Assad air raids on opposition-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday
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
April 2014: 1 April: At least 1,50,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year-old civil war, one third of them being civilians, SOHR says - 10 April: While Assad regime's shelling left at least four teenagers dead near Homs, Syria rebel infighting kills 51 near Iraq border - 12 April: Residents of Kafr Zita reportedly had trouble breathing and showed poisoning symptoms after regime troops hit the village with barrels packed with explosives - 14 April: Syrian opposition says it has evidence of chlorine gas attack in Kfar Zeita - 16 April: Assad's forces attack with poison gas in capital, opposition says - 17 April: Syrian opposition warns of potential Homs massacre as regime troops advance - 18 April: Assad's army advances in Homs as car bomb kills 14 people - 19 April: Rivalry between jihadist groups in Syria and brutal abuses against civilians sparking infighting which experts say has hampered efforts to topple Assad - 20 Activists say that asphyxiation cases as a result of the poison gas attack on Taman’a in Idlib rose to more than 50 cases, including women and children - 20 April: Allegations that Assad forces have used chemical weapons gained credence when French president Hollande says France has information that toxic gases have been used against opposition in recent attacks - 20 April: Syrian Coalition calls on the international community to shoulder its responsibility and 'put an end to the regime’s use of barrel bombs filled with poison gas to kill the Syrian people amid the world’s silence' - 20 April 2014: Scores killed in latest barrel-bomb attacks on Aleppo - 21 April: Activists say there are more than 100 casualties after a chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime, this time in Idlib Province - 22 April: Having indications toxic chemicals used in Syria this month USA to examine whether Assad regime is responsible - 24 April: Dozens of casualties in regime airstrike on Al-Atarib near Aleppo - 28 April: Western broadcasters witness devastation of Assad's air bombardment on Aleppo - 28 April: Residents and rescuers tell the broadcasters barrel-bombed Aleppo living in fear - 30 April: Assad airstrike hit a school in an opposition-held district of Aleppo killing at least 19 people, including 10 children
May 2014: 1 May: At least 33 people killed in an Assad air strike on a market in an opposition-held district of Aleppo - 2 May: Opposition fighters reportedly withdraw from besieged parts of Homs - 7 May: Evacuation of Homs opposition districts under Assad siege for nearly two years to begin on Wednesday - 13 May: Human Rights Watch says 'strong evidence' Assad regime used chlorine gas - 16 May: At least 12 people killed and 48 wounded in Assad airstrikes on Atareb, near Aleppo - 18 May: Assad's air 'defense' chief killed during an offensive by regime's forces against opposition east of Damascus - 19 May: More than 100 rebels who surrendered to Assad's regime in the hope of an amnesty have languished for months in a detention centre in Homs, fearing re-arrest or retribution - 20 May: Rocket fire by Assad military helicopters killed at least ten people in the northern town of Azaz, hours after of a rocket strike on the nearby town of Marea killed 13 people, 10 of them children - 23 May: Syrian opposition releases video of a reported chlorine gas attack - 26 May: At least 13 people reportedly killed when a car bomb exploded on a busy roundabout in Homs - 27/28 May: Syria's oldest synagogue in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus destroyed by Assad forces in the months-long bombardment of Jobar
June 2014: 1 June: Tunnel bomb kills 40 Assad soldiers in a military base in Aleppo - 16/17 June: Assad helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held districts of Aleppo, killing at least 60 people, including several children, and injuring dozens - 18 June: Mostly women and children killed by Assad regime helicopters in first attack on a refugee camp in southern Syria along the border with Jordan - 21 June: The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening and the number of people needing urgent help has reached 10.8 million, almost half of Syria's population of 22 million, UN's Ban Ki-moon says
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
Since 16 September 2014: Since 16 September 2014 Siege of Kobanê (ongoing)
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
November 2014: 1 November: Peshmerga bolster Kurd defenders of Kobane - 1 November: Assad regime committed at least 14 massacre in besieged East Ghouta in September and October that claimed the lives of 274 civilians, including 71 children and 40 women, in addition to leaving 1,150 civilians injured, rights group says - 2 November: Iraqi fighters warmly welcomed by Kobane's defenders - 24 November: Advances for YPG in Kobane - 25 November: Intensified Assad bombardment on Wadi Barada near Damascus - 25/26 November: Assad air raids on Raqa kill many civilians including children - 28 November 2014: More than 500 people have been killed in 2,000 air strikes across Syria by regime forces over the past 40 days, rights group says - 28 November: The world’s shameful silence emboldens Assad to commit more massacres, Syrian Coalition says after the death of more than 150 civilians in the bombing of Raqqa - 29 November: 'Islamic State' terrorists launch attack on Kobani from inside Turkey for first time - 30 November: Seven civilians reportedly killed and dozens wounded in Assad air raids on Nawa west of Dara’a, six more killed in raids on Inkhil and a child in Dael
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
September/October 2015 Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War: 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 and wounding Free Syrian Army members - 2015 Russian air raids in Syria - 30 September 2015: Russian warplanes target the countryside of Hama and Homs and directly participate in the Syrian people killing, also targeting areas controlled by opposition forces who are working to establish a democratic Syria - 30 September 2015: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Daraa and in Rif Dimashq province, in Hama and in Homs 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
9 November 2015: Assad regime dropped 1,438 barrel bombs in October 2015, killing dozens of people
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 -