Since 1970 Russia supporting Assad's dictatorship (father and son): Russia/Syria relations - since 1971 military, economic and political cooperation and support, Russia became Syria's main arms supplier - April 1981 Hama massacre - February 1982 Hama massacre, 10,000–40,000 Syrian citizens murdered by the Assad regime - Russian involvement in the Assad regime's war against the Syrian people since 2011 - 19. März 2012: Stark gestiegene Waffenimporte aus Rußland - 10 June 2012: Russia will continue to oppose attempts by the UN Security Council to sanction military intervention in Syria, FM Lavrov says - 11 July 2012: Russia sends a large flotilla of 11 warships to Syria in show of support to Assad - 24 August 2012: Russian regime says Assad regime has guaranteed it will not deploy its arsenal of chemical weapons - 13 février 2013: La Russie continuera de livrer des armes à la Syrie - 17 May 2013: USA general Dempsey says the new Russian shipment of modern Yakhont missiles to Assad will prolong the conflict, as rights group finds new evidence of arbitrary detention and torture by Assad's forces

Since 2011 Iranian support for Assad regime's war against the Syrian people: Since 2011 Iranian support for Assad regime's war against the Syrian people perpetuating the dictatorship

Since 2011 Hezbollah's involvement in the Assad regime's war against the Syrian people Terrorist organization Hezbollah's involvement in the Assad regime's war against the Syrian people since 2011



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 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
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
28 April 2011: 28. April 2011: UN uneins gegen Assad
May-August 2011: May-August 2011 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
6 May 2011 – 9 May 2014: Siege of Homs, a series of military operations being conducted by Assad's military 6 May 2011 – 9 May 2014
4 June 2011: 4. Juni 2011: Blutbad im syrischen Hama
9 June 2011: 9 June 2011: European nations demand UN resolution condemning Syria's violent actions
3 July 2011 – 4 August 2011: Siege of Hama 3 July 2011 – 4 August 2011
3 August 2011: 3. August 2011: Keine UN-Resolution zu Syrien - China, Indien und Rußland blockieren
Since 2011: List of vetoed UN Security Council resolutions on Syria, vetoed by Russia and China since 2011
Since 2011: 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
September-December 2011: September-December 2011 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
4 September 2011: 4 September 2011: Syrian pro-democracy activists say at least 13 people have been killed in anti-government protests, as Assad forces surrounded hospitals 'to prevent the wounded from being brought in for treatment, according to the LCC
8 September 2011: 8 September 2011: At least 34 people, mainly in Homs were killed Wednesday in Assad's swoops, as at least three defectors from the Syrian Army were killed and two others detained by Assad forces in the north-eastern region of Jabal al-Zawiya
9 September 2011: 9 September 2011: More deaths reported as Syrian demonstrators call for international protection
11 September 2011: 11 September 2011: Assad forces stepped up raids across the country to arrest activists on Sunday after one of the bloodiest weeks in the six-month uprising against his dictatorship
January-April 2012: January-April 2012 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
19 March 2012: 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
May-August 2012: May-August 2012 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
25 May 2012: Houla massacre 25 May 2012 - 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
6 June 2012: Al-Qubeir massacre in the small village of Al-Qubeir near Hama on 6 June 2012
September-December 2012: September-December 2012 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
6 September 2012: 6. September 2012: Ban Ki Moon kritisiert den Sicherheitsrat der UN wegen Untätigkeit und Versagen im Syrien-Konflikt
27 September 2012: 27 September 2012: UN Assembly remains divided over Syria - ongoing support of Assad's crimes by Russia
17 October 2012 - March 2015: Since 17 October 2012 use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War, many attacks confirmed by the United Nations
January-April 2013: January-April 2013 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
2 January 2013: 2 January 2013: At least 30 people killed as Assad warplanes bomb gas station near Damascus
May-December 2013: May-December 2013 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
16 May 2013: 16 May 2013: USA President Obama says the US has seen evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria, after talks with Turkey's PM Erdogan
27 May 2013: 27 May 2013: 'Extremely concerned' over Lebanese terror group’s role in Qusair fighting UN's Ban Ki-moon condemns Hezbollah over Syria involvement
14 June 2013: 14 June 2013: USA says the Assad regime has used lethal nerve gas Sarin against opposition forces
22 August 2013: 22 August 2013: UN holds emergency meeting on Syria chemical attack outside Damascus, confirmed by videos, witness accounts and testimonies by emergency medics
25 August 2013: 25 August 2013: 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
30 August 2013: 30 August 2013: 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 2013: 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
4/5 September 2013: 4/5 September 2013: A Hezbollah official has said Bashar al-Assad ordered poison gas attack near Damascus on August 21, according to German spy agency
16 September 2013: UN report on the use of chemical weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013
18/30 September 2013: 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 - 30 September 2013: Germany delivered 350 tons of "dual-use" chemicals until 2011 to Syria
26 September 2013: 26 September 2013: Poor and desperate, Syrian refugees beg on Yemen's streets
3 December 2013: 3 December 2013: 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
January–July 2014: January–July 2014 timeline of Assad's war against the Syrian people
9 January 2014: 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
17 January 2014: 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
8 February 2014: 8 February 2014: New aerial bombardment from Assad's explosives-packed barrel bombs in Aleppo killed at least 20 people on Saturday
1 April 2014: 1 April 2014: 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
14 April 2014: 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'
12 July 2014: 12 July 2014: Follow all the latest updates on Israel's efforts to extinguish rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon
24/25 July 2014: 24 July 2014: Two civilians killed in air strikes on Barada Valley rural Damascus, more victims in similar attacks on Douma and on Sarghaiya road - 24 July 2014: Seven civilians, including three children, killed by barrel bomb attacks on Jassem, Dara’a - 25 July 2014: 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
1 August 2014: 1 August 2014: 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 2014: 2 August 2014: Syrian Coalition demands the release of 150,000 detainees in Assad’s prisons
4/5 August 2014: 4 August 2014: 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
10 August 2014: 10 August 2014: At least 13 civilians killed in Aleppo yesterday, including women and children, as Assad regime continues its brutal barrel bomb campaign - 10 August 2014: Opposition forces reportedly advance on Damascus airport - 10 August 2014: First batch of UN relief aid enters Dara’a
10 August 2014: 10 August 2014: Israeli government says no negotiations under fire as rocket fire on Israel continues, as Hamas says it will quit Cairo and Gazans in addition to hundreds of victims, destruction and unemployment struggle with rising prices
12 August 2014: 12 August 2014: Intensified Assad air raids on Mleiha, East Ghouta and ongoing barrel bombs carnage in Aleppo
13 August 2014: 13 August 2014: 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 2014: 15 August 2014: 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
19 August 2014: 19 August 2014: Three civilians killed in Assad artillery shelling on Douma near Damascus, more deadly barrel bomb attacks and air raids reported
8 September 2014: 8 September 2014: 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
10/11 September 2014: 10 September 2014: 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 2014: 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
13/14 September 2014: 13 September 2014: 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 2014: Nine civilians killed and dozens injured on air raids on the district of Douma, alongside air strikes on Ain Tarma and East Ghouta
16/17 September 2014: 16 September 2014: 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 2014: 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
19/20/21 September 2014: 19 September 2014: 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 2014: 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 2014: 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
23/24/25 September 2014: 23 September 2014: 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 2014: 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 2014: 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
28/29 September 2014: 28 September 2014: Seven civilians killed and many others wounded in barrel bomb attacks on Rastan north of Homs - 29 September 2014: 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 2014: Assad's army bombs areas in Aleppo province with barrel bombs and other projectiles and has carried out air strikes in Hama
1 October 2014: 1 October 2014: 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 2014: 2 October 2014: 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 2014: 3 October 2014: Syrian Kurds plea for help defending Kobani from Isis advance
4 October 2014: 4 October 2014: 115 Syrians killed under torture in Assad’s jails in September - 4 October 2014: 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
7 October 2014: 7 October 2014: 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
11 October 2014: 11 October 2014: 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
12 October 2014: 12 October 2014: Rights group says, it had documented at least 83 attacks carried by regime forces using cluster munitions between January and September 2014
13 October 2014: 13 October 2014: Syria's Assad air force ramps up strikes in west, taking advantage of USA strikes in the east
16 October 2014: 16 October 2014: Syrian Coalition calls on international anti-IS forces to direct strikes against regime's targets after new state terrorism attacks
17 October 2014: 17 October 2014: Chemical attack on Jobar buoyed by the world’s silence, Syrian Coalition says
22 October 2014: 22 October 2014: As USA attacks Islamic State terrorists, Assad regime steps up assaults on opposition forces
23 October 2014: 23 October 2014: 22 civilians killed in Assad's air raids on Naseeb and Jiza in rural Dara’a
24 October 2014: 24 October 2014: Syrian Network for Human Rights says that it had documented 5,307 civilians shot by snipers of the Assad regime and Hezbollah militias
26 October 2014: 26 October 2014: 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 2014: 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 2014: 27 October 2014: Assad forces’ escalating attacks and indiscriminate shelling on Aleppo and its countryside cause mass displacement of the civilian population - 27 October 2014: 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
29 October 2014: 29 October 2014: Many reported dead after Assad army drops barrel bombs on displaced persons camp in the northern province of Idlib
30 October 2014: 30 October 2014: 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
1 November 2014: 1 November 2014: 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
26 November 2014: 26 November 2014: An estimated 12.2 million Syrians need assistance because of increasing violence and deteriorating conditions, UN says
28 November 2014: 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 2014: 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
30 November 2014: 30 November 2014: 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
1 December 2014: 1 December 2014: 30 civilians killed and nearly 100 wounded in brutal aerial and artillery shelling on a market in the opposition-held town of Jassim - 1 December 2014: More than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt face food crisis as UN funds dry up
2 December 2014: 2 December 2014: Nazi war criminal Brunner, the unrepentant 'right-hand man' of Adolf Eichmann and wanted for deporting tens of thousands of Jews to death camps, is 'almost certain' to have died in Syria, where he was protected by successive regimes, four years ago, Simon Wiesenthal Centre says - 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'
3 December 2014: 3 December 2014: Rights group documents 31 massacres committed by pro-Assad forces in November 2014
18 December 2014: 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
17/19 December 2014: 17/19 December 2014: Syrian regime detained at least 215,000 Syrians since the beginning of the uprising against Assad, now in its fourth year, according to Syrian Network for Human Rights, which is urging the ICC to mount prosecutions for crimes against humanity
19 December 2014: 19 December 2014: 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
24 December 2014: 24 December 2014: An Assad's warplane targeted a civilian bus near Saraqib in rural Idlib, killing four children and injuring ten more
25 December 2014: 25 December 2014: 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 2014: 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
31 December 2014: 31 December 2014: Regime forces launch new chlorine gas attack on Jobar
1 January 2015: 1 January 2015: Syrian Coalition's Nora Al-Ameer observes hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners in Homs
1 January 2015: 1 January 2015: Syria's war killed 76,021 people in 2014, 33,278 of them civilians, SOHR says
15 January 2015: 15 January 2015: Monitoring groups say that 36 Syrians, including 24 children, died during the past week as a result of the snowstorm hitting the region
16 January 2015: 16 January 2015: Residents of besieged Yarmouk camp send a distress call to the international community to take action
21 January 2015: 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 2015: 23 January 2015: An Assad air strike on Hamoria, a district in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, killed more than 30 people on Friday
25 January 2015: 25 January 2015: Assad’s air force has stepped up aerial bombardment of areas in Hammouriya in East Ghouta, Douma, in rural Homs, and in rural Aleppo
30 January 2015: 30 January 2015: USA Holocaust Museum displays images of Assad regime mass killings
6 February 2015: 6 February 2015: Assad's air force strikes kill at least 70 people in an opposition district outside Damascus following rocket attack - 6 February 2015: Assad's air force targeted residential areas especially in Douma, Kafr Batna, Arbin, Ain Tarma, Sakba and Zamalka - 6 February 2015: 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
10 February 2015: 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
18 February 2015: Battle of Debaltseve and intensified attacks and seizure by Russian-backed militants after Minsk II ceasefire agreement on 12 February 2015
20 February 2015: 20 February 2015: Assad's warplanes carry out raids on villages in the countryside of Hama and the eastern countryside of Aleppo
23 February 2015: 23 February 2015: Captive regime officers killed and injured in Assad air raids on Douma that targeted their place of detention - 23 February 2015: 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 2015: 24 February 2015: 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 2015: 25 February 2015: 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'
3 March 2015: 3 March 2015: 74 people, including students and a child, killed under torture in Assad’s prisons in February 2015, rights group says - 3 March 2015: 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 2015: 4 March 2015: Aleppo’s explosion and the clashes followed it leave 35 deaths, and the shells launched by rebel battalions kill 9 people
8 March 2015: 8 March 2015: 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 2015: 9 March 2015: 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
11 March 2015: 11 March 2015: Three men from al-Zabadani tortured to death inside Assad's jails and barrel bombs dropped on the town of Sayda
12 March 2015: 12 March 2015: 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 2015: 13 March 2015: 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: 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
19 March 2015: 19 March 2015: 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 2015: UN High Commissioner for Refugees says seven million Syrians are internally displaced as a result of Assad's war against Syrian people, 2.2 million from Rural Damascus, 1.7 million from Aleppo, 1.1 million from Homs, 390,000 from Deir Ezzor, 300,000 from Latakia, 245,000 from Dara’a, 235,000 from Hama and 520,000 from Idlib, Damascus, and Al-Hasakah
20 March 2015: 20 March 2015: 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 2015: 21 March 2015: Regime’s bombardment kills three civilians in Otaya town, warplanes carried out 2 raids on areas of Idlib Province killing five women and a child and wounding dozens, seven people from Deir Ezzor and Daraa tortured to death inside regime jails - 21 March 2015: Regime forces shell Bostan al-Qaser, killing a man, his wife and their 2 children while other people were wounded
23 March 2015: 23 March 2015: Assad's helicopters dropped barrel bombs on places in the town of Ma’raba - 23 March 2015: Assad regime forces reportedly behead two fighters and publish photos of the two heads on WhatsApp - 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 - 23 March 2015: 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 2015: Assad's warplanes strike areas in the countryside of Hama - 23 March 2015: Assad's barrel bombs kill five brothers children in the town of Tafas in Daraa
25 March 2015: 25 March 2015: Regime forces shelled places in Deir Ezzor - 25 March 2015: 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 2015: 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
26/27 March 2015: 26/27 March 2015: 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 2015: 27 March 2015: OPCW to investigate Assad’s chlorine gas attack on Sarmin that killed six and wounded dozens earlier this month
28 March 2015: 28 March 2015: Assad regime forces bombarded areas and his helicopters dropped barrel bombs on places in Daraa Province
31 March 2015: 31 March 2015: Heavy damage inflicted on Idlib civilian hospital by Assad regime bombing, killing four people, after rebels take the province of Idlib - 31 March 2015: 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
2 April 2015: 2 April 2015: 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 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 2015: The Syrian Human Rights Committee confirmed three Palestinian sisters died under torture at the hands of Assad regime's intelligence inside Branch 235 - 2 April 2015: Regime attacks destroy Idleb's National Hospital
5 April 2015: 5 April 2015: Assad's helicopters drop barrel bombs on areas in Aleppo, Idlib on the Yarmouk camp, and regime forces shell areas in Daraa and Hama
14 April 2015: 14 April 2015: Assad regime aircrafts and helicopters attack towns and villages in Idlib province and kill another four children and three women in Aleppo province
20 April 2015: 20 April 2015: 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 - 20 April 2015: Syrian Network for Human Rights says it has recorded 87 violations of the UN Security Council resolution 2118 by the Assad regime, 59 of which occurred in 2014, and 28 in 2015, also reporting 15 violations of UN resolution 2209 by the Assad regime - 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
30 April 2015: 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 2015: 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 2015: 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 2015: 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
20 May 2015: 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 2015: 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: 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
17 June 2015: 17 June 2015: 163 people killed yesterday (16 June 2015) including 106 civilians, 14 children and 7 women in Aleppo
1 August 2015: 1 August 2015: Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids and drop more barrel bombs on areas in Rif Dimashq province, in Daraa and Homs province
4 September 2015: 4 September 2015: 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 2015: 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 2015: 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
20 September 2015: 20 September 2015: 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 2015: 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 2015: 21 September 2015: 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 2015: 22 September 2015: 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 - 22 September 2015: 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 - 22 September 2015: 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 - 22 September 2015: Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan reported killed under torture in Assad prisons
30 September 2015: 30 September 2015: 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
Since September/October 2015 Russian military intervention in Syria and air raids against the Syrian people: Since 30 September 2015 Russian military intervention in Assad's war against the Syrian people, first attacking areas in Latakia, Homs, and Hama province and murdering 36 civilians, including five children, and wounding Free Syrian Army members - Since 2015 Reports of Russian war crimes and attacks on civilians 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
2 October 2015: 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
5 October 2015: 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 2015: Warplanes believed to be Russian bombed areas in Idlib province - 5 October 2015: Russian fighter jets target farm on the outskirts of Ihsim in Idlib province, killing nine members of one family - 5 October 2015: Suspected Russian warplanes carried out several strikes on the towns and villages in Hama province - 5 October 2015: Warplanes, believed to be Russian, attacked places in Aleppo province killing and wounding people, as Assad's helicopters dropped more barrel bombs - 5 October 2015: 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
22 October 2015: 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: At least three Syrian hospitals bombed since Russian airstrikes began, doctors say, as the latest attack kills at least 12 people at Sarmin hospital in Idlib province and as at least three of the victims are believed to be medical staff - 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
23 November 2015: 23 November 2015: At least 30 civilians have been killed across Deir-ez-Zor province as Russian and Assad regime warplanes target Mayadin, Al-Bukamal, Al-Mohassan and areas surrounding Deir-ez-Zor military air base - 23 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Aleppo province, in al-Raqqa and Idlib province - 23 November 2015: In yet new intensification of its aggression on Syria, the Russian air force bombed the headquarters of Free Aleppo University, the Faculty of Education, and the Faculty of Science in northern rural Aleppo - 23 November 2015: Russian air strikes on Deir Ezzor have caused dozens of civilian casualties, including women and children, Syrian Coalition's Khoja says stressing that instead of targeting ISIS headquarters, the Russian aggression has targeted civilians in Deir Ezzor who have made immense sacrifices on road to freedom
27 November 2015: 27 November 2015: Russia renewed its air strikes on aid vehicles near the Turkish border, targeting a convoy in Sarmada in Idlib province - 26 November 2015: A report by the 'Independent' suggests that the deadly chemical weapon know as white phosphorous is being used in airstrikes in Raqqa, as both Russian and French fighter jets have been bombarding Raqqa with airstrikes in an ongoing campaign - 27 November 2015: 12 casualties and about half of them children killed in bombing by warplanes on areas in Al-Raqqah city - 27 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Lattakia province, in Homs province, in Aleppo province, and in Idlib province - 27 November: Russian warplanes bombarded areas in Hama and Lattakia province
28 November 2015: 28 November 2015: The Russian air force has intensified aerial attacks on areas in the provinces of Aleppo, Idlib and Latakia, targeting relief convoys, vital civilians facilities, a marketplace in Awijil, and a bus station Al-Dana, leaving dozens of civilian casualties - 28 November 2015: A man was killed by Russian airstrikes on Wadi al-Ahmar in Homs province - 28 November 2015: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Homs province - 28 November 2015: Russian terror warplanes raid areas of al-Taman’a, al-Maghara, Benech, and Ma’ra al-Nu’man in Idlib province, killing 3 people and wounding 6 in Ma’ra al-Nu’man - 28 November 2015: Russian terror warplanes target Der al-Asafir in Rif Damashq province, wounding a number of civilians
27 January 2016: 27 January 2016: Russian warplanes and warplanes believed to be Russian carry out more airstrikes in Deir Ezzor province - 27 January 2016: A total of 30 civilians, including women and children, killed and many more wounded in Russian airstrikes on rebel-held areas across Idlib province, targeting a public market in the town of Ariha, a residential area in the town of Jarjanaz, the town of Tarmanin and the towns of Saraqib, Tamana’a and Al-Najiya - 27 January 2016: Dozens of civilians reportedly killed and injured in Russian airstrikes on the town of Mheimidah in western rural Deir Ezzor, as the Russian air force also bombed the towns of Al-Mayadin, Abu Hamam and Al-Shuheil in rural Deir ezzor, causing civilian casualties - 27 January 2016: SOHR was able to document the death of 471 civilians including 127 children and 56 women, since the beginning of January 2016 until last night January 27th, they were all killed by Russian airstrikes targeted different Syrian provinces
14 February 2016: 14 February 2016: Russian warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen-dominated villages in the southern countryside of Hama province in the past month, displacing 10,000 people to the northern countryside of Homs, a FSA commander says, as activists and displaced Turkmen families witness heavy aerial bombardment by Russian jets
30 April 2016: 30 April 2016: Despite carnage, Syria’s Aleppo excluded from so-called fighting 'freeze’, as shelling and Assad regime's air raids in the city over past week have killed over 230 civilians, showing 'monstrous disregard' for civilian lives, according to UN, and pushing February 27 ceasefire to verge of collapse - 30 April 2016: 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 Idlib and Deir Ezzor province - 30 April 2016: Fighting continues and more casualties reported in Aleppo - 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
18 May 2016: 18 May 2016: At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed in airstrikes by regime forces on the town of Alrastan north of Homs as towns of Hama, Homs province and rural Damascus were struck with 60 airstrikes and barrel bombs, while Russia is stepping up airstrikes and Iran and the Assad regime have amassed around 11,000 troops around Aleppo and Idlib, according to the opposition’s negotiation delegation in Geneva - 18 May: Aerial bombardment targets Aleppo city - 18 May: 5 civilians were killed while no less than 20 others were wounded by aerial bombardment targeted al-Takaia street in al-Hamidian neighborhood in Deir-Ezzor - 18 May: Areas of Khan al-Shekh in Rif-Damashq province were exposed to bombardment by explosive barrels, what rose the number of airstrikes on the area to 48
2 June 2016: 2 June 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Rif Damashq province, in Damascus province, in Idlib and Lattakia province, and in Aleppo province, dropping barrel bombs
13 June 2016: 13 June 2016: At least 20 civilians, including women and children, were killed when Russian war planes target a local marketplace in the northern city of Idlib, medics say, and two more people also killed in a Russian vacuum missile attack on the Masjed al-Masri neighborhood in Marat al-Numanb, as 41 casualties in two massacres carried out by the regime’s warplanes in the cities of Idlib and Maarrat al-Nu’man reported by SOHR - 13 June 2016: Russian-made hoses containing highly explosive material and shrapnel dropped by Assad regime on residential neighborhoods in Aleppo, as continuous air and artillery strikes on Aleppo, its outskirts and countryside reported by SOHR - 13 June 2016: Syrian regime helicopters on Sunday dropped 12 barrel bombs on the besieged town of Daraya, southern Damascus suburbs
17 July 2016: 17 July 2016: Assad's troops besiege rebel-held parts of the city of Aleppo, which is now completely besieged - 17 July 2016: 300,000 people face death or starvation in Aleppo, USA doctor Dr. Samer Attar, who is treating the horrific injuries suffered by Syrian civilians, warns - 17 July 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Rif Damashq province, dropping more barrel bombs on Daraya today amid aerial bombardment and regime’s bombardment on the city - 17 July 2016: Human losses after aerial bombardment and shells on Aleppo city - 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 - 17 July 2016: Assad regime forces backed by non-Syrian militants and Hezbollah reportedly were able to reach the Castello road and take control on it, besieging the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city
19 July 2016: 19 July 2016: Russian airstrikes disrupt last remaining ambulance service in rural Aleppo - 19 juillet 2016: Près de 60 civils, dont 11 enfants, morts et des dizaines de blessés mardi dans des raids de la coalition menée par les Etats-Unis près du village d'al-Toukhar tenu par Daech dans la province d'Alep, selon l'OSDH - 19 July 2016: Assad regime forces bombarded al-Zabdani in Rif Damashq province, its explosive barrels targeted Daraya, the number of civilians who were killed by aerial bombardment on Duma and Harasta rose to 12 including 4 women and a child - 19 July 2016: As at least 500 civilians were killed in aerial attacks by the Assad regime and Russia forces on Aleppo and its countryside between 11-19 July mainly directed on the rebel-held areas, Syrian Coalition's Yahya says that the Syrian people lost confidence in the international community as more get killed every day
15 August 2016: 15 August 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Aleppo city and province - 15 August 2016: Assad regime and Russian warplanes launched 40 air raids with vacuum bombs and over half-ton bombs on Tayir Malaa village and the cities of Talbiyse and al-Rastan in Homs province, killing civilians and injuring scores, mostly women and children
15 August 2016: 15 August 2016: Russian air strikes that hit Idlib 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 - 15 August 2016: Russian warplanes hit Kafarnaha, Qabtan al-Jebel, and Howr in the western Aleppo countryside, simultaneously with artillery bombardment on Andan in the northern countryside, leaving dozens killed and wounded
12 September 2016: 12 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Rif Damashq and in Daraa province, also dropping barrel bombs on places in the town of Tal Antar, in Deir Ezzor and in Homs province, in Aleppo province, also dropping more barrel bombs, in Idlib and in Lattakia province, as it rose to 13 including 3 from one family, and 4 others from another family, the number of civilians who were killed by aerial bombardment on Maara Masrin in the northern countryside of Idlib, and again in Rif Damashq province - 12 September 2016: Rose to 31 including a child and 4 women the number of civilians who were killed by 2 massacres in the eastern Ghouta and Idlib northern countryside and in bombardment on Om Sharshouh and al-Farhania, and by shells targeted Aleppo city in the first day of Eid - 12 September 2016: Bombardment targets several areas of Syria after announcing the cease fire
19 September 2016: 19 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Deir Ezzor province, massive bombardment by Russian and Syria warplanes witnessed, also torturing a man to death in regime prisons after detaining him for months, in Damascus province, in Homs province, also dropping barrel bombs in the northern countryside, in Hama province, also dropping barrel bombs, in Aleppo province, again in Deir Ezzor province, in Daraa and in Rif Damashq province, and again in Hama province - 19 September 2016: At least 32 casualties and tens of injuries in Aleppo and its countryside as a result of the intensive airstrikes shortly after Russian and Assad regimes officially end truce
20 September 2016: 20 September 2016: About 40 were killed by bombardment on Aleppo city, including women and children - 20 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, as it rose to 5 the number of rebels who were killed by a landmine in Idlib province - 20 September 2016: USA blames Russia after UN aid convoy in Syria targeted by air attack and UN official says 'inexplicable' attack could amount to a war crime if bombing which killed aid workers proved to be deliberate - 20 September 2016: Red Cross president says attack on UN and Red Crescent convoy delivering supplies is unacceptable violation of international law and UN suspends all aid convoy movements in Syria after airstrike - 20 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, also dropping 27 explosive barrels on the neighborhoods of Bustan al-Qaser, al-Ansari, Bab al-Nasir, Bab al-Neirab, al-Maisar, Karam al-Tarab, and Jesr al-Haj, in Daraa and in Rif Damashq province, in al-Quneitra province, in Deir Ezzor province, and in Homs province, also dropping barrel bombs
21 September 2016: 21 September 2016: At least three people killed and 15 others wounded in the northern countryside of Homs as the Assad regime extends its aerial bombing campaign - 21 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Rif Damashq province, in Daraa and in Lattakia province, in Homs province, in Aleppo province, where another 13 people including 9 rebels and 4 members of the Medical crew of Osom International organization are killed by aerial bombardment on Khan Toman area, as more than 3,000 Russian soldiers reportedly arrive in Aleppo province to support regime forces - 21 September 2016: 7 people confirmed to be dead including 3 children and 1 rebel, killed by aerial bombardment on Khan Shekhon city in Idlib province - 21 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Hama province, also dropping barrel bombs
22 September 2016: 22 September 2016: Russian warplanes carried out an air raid on a medical point in the town of Khan Touman in the southern Aleppo countryside, killing five people and injuring a number of others also killing nine rebel fighters, UOSSM and SOHR say - 22 September 2016: Dozens of Syrians are killed overnight in rebel-held districts of Aleppo during murderous airstrikes, as by midnight doctors and activists have identified 49 people, including children, killed in Aleppo province since noon that day in dozens of airstrikes, as USA's John Kerry calls for all Syrian planes to be stopped from flying over combat zones where humanitarian aid is delivered, and as Russian murderous regime announces its only aircraft carrier would be sent to the Syrian coast - 22 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province
23 September 2016: 23 September 'What's happening now is annihilation', local aid worker Ammar al Selmo says as Assad regime warplanes backed by Russian forces target rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo in the heaviest murderous airstrikes in months, and as 'Alternative Nobel' honors Middle East activists including Syrian civil defense group, also in Aleppo - 23 September 2016: Assad regime helicopters resume dropping barrel bombs on a number of besieged districts inside Aleppo city, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries among civilians amid bombardment from Russian warplanes on opposition positions south of the city - 23 September 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places, carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, also dropping more barrel bombs and forcing civilians to migrate from the eastern section of Aleppo, in Hama province
23 September 2016: 23 September 2016: Residents of rebel-held east Aleppo describe scenes of devastation, with activists claiming that both Syrian and Russian warplanes have attacked the city hours after the announcement of a major new offensive - 23 September 2016: The Syria Civil Defense service says three of its four facilities in the east of Aleppo were 'deliberately targeted' in a wave of Assad and Russian bombings, 15 victims have been reported since midnight, also meaning that ambulances are now unable to reach dozens trapped under the rubble - 23 September 2016: Many of the victims are children, 'they lose their limbs and become disabled for life and their only sin is that they are the children of Syria', Russian and Assad criminals 'have burned their childhood and their innocence and made them homeless in their country and all we get in return are words and promises from outside', Bara’a, a nurse in Aleppo, says
1 October 2016: 1 October 2016: Assad regime’s offensive to recapture the whole of Aleppo again bolstered by its Russian ally’s rejection of international demands for a halt to its murderous bombing campaign in support of the advancing troops, as Doctors Without Borders describe the impact of Syrian and Russian bombardment as a 'bloodbath' - 1 October 2016: As the Russian aggression on Syria entered its second year, thousands of Syrians on Friday took to the streets in many towns and villages across Syria to protest against the ongoing aggression and to show solidarity with Aleppo - 1 October 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out murderous raids on areas in Aleppo province and city, in Homs province, in Idlib province, in Hama province, in Rif Damasha province, dropping more barrel bombs
17 October 2016: 17 October 2016: At least 40 civilians were killed and many more wounded in Russian airstrikes on Aleppo city and its countryside on Monday, according to activists saying that 'bunker-buster bombs' were used causing massive damage to residential buildings - 17 October 2016: Syrian Coalition says that the FSA’s liberation of the town of Dabiq form Islamic State terrorists is the beginning of the end for the group, representing a turning point in the fight to cleanse all of Syria’s territory from these terrorists - 17 October 2016: According to a SNHR report on Sunday, Russian and Assad forces have killed 361 civilians, including 96 children and 55 women, since their ending of the ceasefire on 18 September, recording that Russian forces carried out 13 massacres and 22 acts of aggression against civilian centers, using incendiary weapons in six attacks
22 October 2016: 22 October 2016: International inquiry has found Syrian Assad regime forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack in Qmenas in Idlib governorate on 16 March 2015, according to a fourth report submitted to the UN Security Council, after the third report by the inquiry in August blamed Assad for two chlorine attacks in Talmenes on 21 April 2014 and Sarmin on 16 March 2015, following Ghouta chemical attacks in August 2013 on opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus using chemical agent sarin, and after in September 2013 the USA Senate filed a resolution to authorize use of military force against Assad's military in response, averted when the murderous regime accepted a USA–Russian negotiated deal to turn over 'every single bit' of its chemical weapons stockpiles for destruction, but has in reality encouraged Assad to escalate his war against the Syrian people, to invite the Russian regime and its murderous military to join Assad's terrorism and to annihilate the Syrian democracy and any opposition against dictatorship - 22 October 2016: After intensified Russian and Syrian bombing of besieged opposition-held parts of Aleppo in the past weeks has hit hospitals, bakeries and water pumping stations, and killed hundreds of civilians, United Nations criticises unilateral ceasefires after long sieges, saying they can be helpful only if combined with humanitarian access for those who do not want to leave
26 October 2016: 26 October 2016: Airstrikes by Russian and the Assad regime air forces using high-explosive parachute-retarded bombs hit a schools complex and a public market in the town of Hass in rural Idlib, killing at least 26 civilians and wounding dozens more, mostly schoolchildren and teachers - 26 October 2016: Rose to 76 including 38 children and women, the number of civilians who were killed by Russian and Assad's aerial bombardments targeting areas of Idlib countryside since the 20th of October until today, while no less than 150 others were wounded and seriously wounded including women and children - 26 October 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Hama, in Idlib and in Lattakia province, in Rif Damashq province, in Idlib province, in Homs and in al-Quneitra province, and in Aleppo province
28 October 2016: 28 October 2016: SOHR condemns the massacres committed by the Russian and Syrian warplanes against the Syrian citizens in Syria and in Idlib's Has, murdering in the recent school attack at least 37 civilians including 15 students, 4 teachers, 3 females, and a doctor, who died wounded after the aerial bombardment, as the USA directly accuses either Syria or Russia of being behind airstrikes that destroyed the school complex in Idlib province, as rescue workers describe details of the attack that levelled much of the area, killing almost 40 people, and as a doctor who treated many of the wounded says most of the dead were children aged six to 15 as well as female teachers, putting the number of injured at more than 100 and describing that many of the children who had arrived at the hospital had lost limbs - 28 October 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, in Homs and in Lattakia province, in Rif Dimashq province, also targeting Duma city with aerial bombardment, murdering a pregnant woman and her unborn child, while many others were wounded
29 October 2016: 29 October 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Damascus and in Rif Damashq province, again in Rif Damashq province, as regime forces shell places in the city of Zabadani, while helicopters are dropping barrel bombs on areas at the outskirts of Khan al-Shih camp in the Western Ghouta, again in Rif Damashq province, in Hama province, in Daraa and in Idlib province, also dropping more barrel bombs amid aerial bombardment targeting Maara Masrin, Benesh and other areas of the northern countryside, al-Bara town in the Zawiya mount and in Aleppo province, targeting Hreitan and al-Bab city, in Homs province, again in Homs province, and in Aleppo province, while Russian and regime’s warplanes renewed the raids on the front stretching from the outskirts of Jam’eyyat al-Zahra’a neighborhood west of Aleppo city, to the southern and southwestern outskirts of the city - 29 October 2016: Assad terrorist forces launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes in an attempt to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in Aleppo
31 October 2016: 31 October 2016: Clashes continue between regime forces and rebels amid aerial bombardment, regime forces bombard al-Rashdin, rebels target regime bastions of Jamiaa al-zahraa, a child was killed by bombardment by regime forces on al-Ferdous neighborhood, a woman and a man were killed by aerial bombardment on Shekh Ali village in Aleppo's western countryside - 31 October 2016: Opposition infiltrates regime-held Western Aleppo, killing Assad forces - 31 October 2016: Regime forces ambush and kill 35 rebels in Daraa countryside - 31 October 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province and in Hama province, as explosive bullets target Maharda town and regime forces bombard areas of Taiba al-Imam and its surroundings - 31 October 2016: Islamic State terrorists expel Deir-ez-Zor residents to receive families of fighters fleeing Mosul - 1 November 2016: SOHR documents death of 4,527 persons in October 2016, including 1,343 civilians, 317 children under the age of eighteen, and 182 female citizens over the age of 18
1 November 2016: 1 November 2016: Media activist and cameraman Abdel Salam Kanaan was covering events in the town of Zafarana in the northern Homs countryside when he was hit by an air raid that killed a number of civilians and wounded others - 1 November 2016: Assad regime moves to implement Daraya model in Waer, as residents refuse - 1 November 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, as aerial bombardments target Kafar Naha, Orom al-Kobra and Kafar Dael, as more casualties are reported in Aleppo city, in Hama province, where regime forces bombard the western countryside of Salamia, and in Homs province amid aerial bombardment, in Daraa and Rif Damashq province - 1 November 2016: At least 1,106 people, including 791 civilians, were killed in attacks by the Assad regime and Russian forces across Syria in October 2016, SNHR says
15 November 2016: 15 November 2016: Assad regime and Russian warplanes have destroyed three hospitals and a medical complex in Aleppo and Idlib provinces over the past week, putting them out of service and causing dozens of casualties - 15 November 2016: Tens of casualties and injuries in new massacres by warplanes and Assad's helicopters on the eastern section of Aleppo city and more casualties in al-Bab city
20 November 2016: 20 November 2016: Video shows the moment a paediatric hospital in eastern Aleppo was struck in an Assad/Russian airstrike on Friday, as doctors and nurses at the children’s hospital scrambled to evacuate babies to safety after the facility was bombed for the second time this week and all hospitals in eastern Aleppo are now out of service - 20 November 2016: About 180 casualties in Aleppo and its countryside during 5 days of bombing escalation, hundreds of wounded are in a catastrophic situation - 20 November 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Aleppo province, in Deir-Ezzor and in Idlib province, again in Aleppo, as about 55 civilians are killed by massive bombardment on eastern Aleppo during the past 24 hours, also dropping barrel bombs, again in Idlib and in Lattakia province, and in Rif Damashq province
7 December 2016: 7 December 2016: Assad regime warplanes carried out dozens of air raids using vacuum bombs on the towns and villages of the Idlib countryside, killing six civilians and wounding 15, some of them seriously, as schools in Idlib province have suspended teaching after the regime and Russia’s deadly aerial campaign killed around 70 people, including many children, over the past four days - 7 December 2016: 72 hours of bombardment escalation by warplanes of the regimes of Putin and Assad on Idlib province kills 121 civilians and wounds tens of others - 7 December 2016: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Lattakia province, in Hama and in Homs province, in Rif Damashq province, in Damascus province, again in Idlib and in Rif Damashq province, in Daraa province, again in Hama province, and in Aleppo, as dozens of corpses are still in the streets from Shaar neighborhood, because the ambulances and rescue teams are not able to pull the corpses due to the murderous Russian and Assad's military operations
13 December 2016: 13 December 2016: OPCW seriously concerned about claims that at least 105 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed by a gas attack in central Syria when airstrikes hit a cluster of five villages, as up to 300 people were injured as a result of the intense airstrikes and attacks by Sarin nerve agent by Assad regime and Russian air forces on several villages in eastern rural Hama - 13 December 2016: At least 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, in four different neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo have been killed by Assad regime troops and allied Iraqi militia, 'being shot in the street trying to flee and shot in their homes', UN says - 13 December 2016: Interior Minister Aryeh Deri says that he had asked PM Netanyahu to officially request an emergency UN Security Council session on the worsening humanitarian situation in Syria, asserting that, 'as Jews, we cannot ignore these atrocities'
30 December 2016: 30 December 2016: Reports shows a wave of purchases by Iranian traders involving a large amount of Syrian real estate in a number of cities including Damascus and Homs - 30 December 2016: Disgruntled Alawite group claims responsibility for assassination of Alaa Makhlouf, personal bodyguard to Asmaa Assad - 30 December 2016: No records of death in the first night of a Turkish-Russian ceasefire agreement, as Assad regime forces target Taiba al-Imam and Batish in the northern countryside of Hama, areas in Daraa province, also dropping barrel bombs, in Aleppo, Idlib and in Lattakia province, again in Daraa province - 30 December 2016: A demonstration took place in Duma city, demanding the unit of rebels, amid ongoing aerial bombardments, in Aleppo province, where a man and a child were killed and others wounded by Assad regime's bombardment targeting al-Karamil village - 30 December 2016: Thousands of Syrians took to the streets in several towns and cities in Syria to demonstrate against the Assad regime a few hours after a nationwide ceasefire took effect on Thursday midnight
10 February 2017: 10 février 2017: L'état-major turc a réfuté la version russe des circonstances de la mort de trois soldats turcs dans un bombardement russe en Syrie, affirmant que les coordonnées indiquant l'emplacement de ses hommes avaient été fournies à plusieurs reprises à la partie russe et 'nos unités touchées par l'avion (russe) le 9 février se trouvaient au même emplacement depuis environ 10 jours' - 10 February 2017: Seven airstrikes by Assad regime forces hit the district on Friday, killing six people and injuring dozens more, activists in Alwaer district say - 10 February 2017: At least 162 rescue workers have so far lost their lives while performing their humanitarian duty in search and rescue operations among the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Assad regime and Russian forces in 2016, according to the Syrian Civil Defense's 3rd Annual Conference
14/15 March 2017: 14 March 2017: Syria a 'torture-chamber', a 'place of savage horror and absolute injustice', UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told the 'Geneva Forum' in call for Assad to release prisoners and for torturers to be brought to court, as the Assad regime did not attend and a Russian envoy, its main ally, called the Geneva event a 'waste of valuable time' - 14 March 2017: Assad's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December 2016, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people in and around the capital Damascus, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria says, adding that the attack was one of several war crimes including the use of lethal chlorine gas and the bombing of shools and medical facilities committed by Assad's forces - 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
5 April 2017: 5 April 2017: At least 60 people have been killed in Idlib province after being exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, and at least another 100 people were being treated in hospitals, as hours after the attack a hospital treating the injured was also hit, and as CBRN's Hamish de Bretton Gordon says Russian claim to protect their allies that an al-Qaida or rebel stockpile of sarin has been blown up in an explosion was 'completely untrue' because Sarin would be destroyed if blown up - 5 April 2017: Warplanes thought to be Russian carried out heavy and concentrated airstrikes on rescue centers and medical facilities which were treating victims of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Civil Defense in Idlib countryside says - 5 April 2017: Warplanes carried out Wednesday morning 5 strikes at least on areas in Khan Shaykhun city south of Idlib province
10 April 2017: 10 April 2017: Russian airstrikes targeted the main hospital of Dael in southern Daraa, killing and wounding medics and patients and forcing services to stop, local activists say - 10 April 2017: Civilians voice concern over increased air campaigns against residential areas, as witnesses report white phosphorus attacks in the hours after the USA cruise missile strike on Syrian air base - 10 April 2017: At least 21 civilians were killed when Russian jets struck the northern Idleb province with cluster bombs, as Russia’s jets also hit towns of Maerherma and Basamis with white phosphorous - 10 April 2017: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Damascus province, as escalated Assad missile strikes target neighborhoods of the capital, in Aleppo province, in Hama province, also dropping barrel bombs, in Deir Ezzor and in Idlib province
26 April 2017: 26 April 2017: French intelligence has concluded that Assad forces carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on 4 April in northern Syria and that Assad or members of his inner circle ordered the strike - 26 April 2017: Assad regime or Russian warplanes kill 12 people wounding others in Kafr Takharim in the rebel-held Idleb countryside after striking a hospital with a number of air raids, victims include doctors and nurses, alongside a number of patients receiving treatment at the time of the raids - 26 April 2017: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Idlib province dropping barrel bombs, amid aerial bombardements and as warplanes believed to be Russian carried out another massacre, in Aleppo province, in Damascus and in Daraa province, in Homs province, and in Rif Damashq province
15 May 2017: 15 May 2017: Assad’s victims given voice in haunting new film by former BBC producers Sara Afshar and Nicola Cutcher, methodically documenting the brutality of the Assad government, its crackdown on democratic protests sinc 2011 and its jailing of activists including gripping firsthand testimony from some of the victims - 15 May 2017: There are fears of a looming disaster in Syria's last opposition stronghold of Idlib, with up to 2 million civilians trapped in the region vulnerable to attack from Russian and Assad forces, at the mercy of a jihadist group arresting FSA fighters, as Turkey has officially closed its border so unless civilians are able to pay a bribe - 15 May 2017: Syrian activists say an airstrike on a village held by the Islamic State group in northern Syria has killed several civilians
11 October 2017: 11 October 2017: 95,000 people were displaced due to airstrikes on Deir Ezzor between 1-8 October, according to UN - 11 October 2017: Continuing Russian-backed terror attacks, Assad regime forces shell places and carry out raids on areas in Idlib province