Timeline:Syria

Dated events for Syria, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-23

• Mossad chief, Syria FM hold positive de-escalation talks after Israeli airbase strike, source says - Jerusalem Post

2026-08-20

• Israel strikes military airbase in Syria while warning Turkey - Long War Journal

2026-08-18

• Netanyahu's office: Syria risked status quo - Breakingthenews.net

2026-07-09

• Is Syria stable enough to engage with the world? - Al Jazeera

2026-06-23

• “Dear Syria … ” - Public Books

2026-06-06

• Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il

2026-05-27

• Is Accountability in Syria Possible? - Pulitzer Center

2026-05-01

• Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-26

• Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-17

• Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

• Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-03-25

• Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
• The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-17

• Syria: Labour Market Assessment Report - ReliefWeb

2026-03-05

• Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-27

• Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-11

• Inside the End of Kurdish Self-Rule in Syria - New Lines Magazine
• Syria’s Future Between Fragmentation and Rival Reconstruction - Manara Magazine

2026-02-10

• Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-03

• The U.S. is Moving Quickly to Leave Syria - New Lines Institute

2026-02-01

• The U.S. should pull the plug on its Syria deployment - Defense Priorities

2026-01-30

• What the New Agreement Means for Kurds in Syria and Beyond - JINSA

2026-01-08

• Syria’s Reconstruction Begins: Recycling the Rubble of War - The Syrian Observer

2025-12-16

• Squeezing Water From the Rubble in Syria - Jacobin

2025-12-14

• Attack on US troops in Syria “tragic & devastating” | Syria's War - Al Jazeera

2025-12-12

• Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-11

• It’s time for a reckoning at the UN in Syria, and beyond - The New Humanitarian

2025-12-10

• A new Syria struggles to be born - Engelsberg Ideas

2025-12-08

• Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera
• What Syria Achieved One Year Ago - Time Magazine

2025-11-18

• Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-11-13

• Syria-US rapprochement sees cooperation surge - Al Majalla

2025-11-10

• Sharaa Visit to Washington Affirms Syria Realignment - The Soufan Center

2025-11-06

• Kurds Could Hold Syria Together or Pull It Apart - New Lines Magazine

2025-11-05

• After Assad, What’s the Future for Syria’s Kurdish Region? - Inkstick Media

2025-10-26

• Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-13

• Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-01

• Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
• Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-29

• How the Shipwrights of Arwad Weathered Syria’s War - New Lines Magazine
• Video | Syria War News | Syria’s Children Return To School After 14 Years Of Conflict - NDTV

2025-09-26

• Israel - General Debate

2025-09-25

• Benjamin Netanyahu confirms security negotiations with Syria - The Jerusalem Post

2025-09-24

• Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-18

• Creating safer learning environments in Syria - Unicef

2025-09-17

• Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
• History of the Kaaba - TRT World
• Syria, Lebanon sign agreement on border demarcation - TRT World

2025-09-16

• Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley - Rest of World

2025-09-11

• Syria says it arrested ‘Hezbollah cell’ in Damascus countryside - Anadolu Ajansı

2025-09-05

• Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-08-27

• Abkhazian delegation arrives in Syria for international fair - OC Media

2025-08-26

• Ahmed Sharaa on Syria's 'zero-problems' strategy - Al Majalla
• Dan Air reduces flight connections to Syria - Aviation.Direct
• Explained: Syria’s currency revaluation and how it works - TRT World
• Syria won't join Abraham Accords: Al Sharaa - TRT World
• Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

• Regional Flash Update #41 Syria situation crisis - ReliefWeb
• Syria condemns Israeli ‘military incursion’ in southwest - Al Arabiya English
• Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

• Area: 187,437 sq km - CIA World Factbook
• Background: After World War I, France acquired a mandate over the northern portion of the former Ottoman Empire province of Syria. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: The French administered the area until granting it independence in 1946. - CIA World Factbook
• Background: The new country lacked political stability and experienced a series of military coups. - CIA World Factbook
• Branches: the interim government authorities in Syria have established a Ministry of Defense and are attempting to unify the dozens of armed factions operating in Syria under a single, state-linked army; it has also established a Ministry of Interior to manage police and other security forces (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Capital: Damascus - CIA World Factbook
• Chief of state: Ahmad al-Shara'; former President Bashar al-ASAD was overthrown by Islamist rebels on 8 December 2024 - CIA World Factbook
• Climate: mostly desert; hot, dry, sunny summers (June to August) and mild, rainy winters (December to February) along coast; cold weather with snow or sleet periodically in Damascus - CIA World Factbook
• Equipment: the military forces of Syria are equipped with Russian and Soviet-era armaments (2025) - CIA World Factbook
• Ethnic groups: Arab ~50%, Alawite ~15%, Kurd ~10%, Levantine ~10%, other ~15% (includes Druze, Ismaili, Imami, Nusairi, Assyrian, Turkoman, Armenian) - CIA World Factbook
• Government type: transitional presidential republic - CIA World Factbook
• Head of government: Prime Minister Muhammad al-BASHIR (since 8 December 2024) - CIA World Factbook
• Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian, French, English - CIA World Factbook
• Legal system: mixed system of civil and Islamic (sharia) law (for family courts) - CIA World Factbook
• Life expectancy: 74.8 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Literacy: 94.4% (2021 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Lebanon and Turkey - CIA World Factbook
• Major urban areas: 2.585 million DAMASCUS (capital), 2.203 million Aleppo, 1.443 million Hims (Homs), 996,000 Hamah (2023) - CIA World Factbook
• Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower - CIA World Factbook
• Personnel: not available - CIA World Factbook
• Population: 24,261,882 (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
• Religions: Muslim 87% (official; includes Sunni 74% and Alawi, Ismaili, and Shia 13%), Christian 10% (includes Orthodox, Uniate, and Nestorian), Druze 3% - CIA World Factbook
• Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west - CIA World Factbook
• Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook