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

According to the World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. - Wikipedia
Archaeologists have demonstrated that civilization in Syria was one of the most ancient on earth, perhaps preceded by only that of Mesopotamia. - Wikipedia
Area: 187,437 sq km - CIA World Factbook
At the time, people used containers made of stone, gyps, and burnt lime (Vaisselle blanche). - Wikipedia
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
By 2020, the UN estimated that over 5.5 million Syrians were living as refugees in the region, and 6.1 million others were internally displaced. - Wikipedia
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
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Syria hosted a population of refugees and asylum seekers numbering approximately 1,852,300. - Wikipedia
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
Importance is placed on family, religion, education, self-discipline and respect. - Wikipedia
In what the UN has described as "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era", by 2014 about 9.5 million Syrians, half the population, had been displaced since March 2011; 4 million were outside the country as refugees. - Wikipedia
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
Marriage ceremonies and the births of children are occasions for the lively demonstration of folk customs. - Wikipedia
Median age: 24.5 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert. - Wikipedia
Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower - CIA World Factbook
Overall population density before the civil war was about 99 per square kilometre (258 per square mile). - Wikipedia
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
Some Syrian dishes also evolved from Turkish and French cooking: dishes like shish kebab, stuffed zucchini/courgette, and yabraʾ (stuffed grape leaves, the word yabraʾ deriving from the Turkish word yaprak, meaning leaf). - Wikipedia
Syria is a traditional society with a long cultural history. - Wikipedia
Syrian cuisine is rich and varied in its ingredients, linked to the regions where a specific dish has originated. - Wikipedia
Syrian food mostly consists of southern Mediterranean, Greek, and Southwest Asian dishes. - Wikipedia
Syrians are an overall indigenous Levantine people, closely related to their immediate neighbors, such as Lebanese, Palestinians, Jordanians and Jews. - Wikipedia
Syrians' taste for the traditional arts is expressed in dances such as the al-Samah, the Dabkeh in all their variations, and the sword dance. - Wikipedia
Terrain: primarily semiarid and desert plateau; narrow coastal plain; mountains in west - CIA World Factbook
The Natufian culture was the first to become sedentary around the 11th millennium BC and became one of the centers of Neolithic culture (known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), where agriculture and cattle breeding first began to appear. - Wikipedia
The Neolithic period (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) is represented by rectangular houses of Mureybet culture. - Wikipedia
The ancient cities of Hamoukar and Emar played an important role during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age. - Wikipedia
The discovery of obsidian tools from Anatolia are evidence of early trade. - Wikipedia
The earliest recorded indigenous civilization in the region was the Kingdom of Ebla near present-day Idlib, northern Syria. - Wikipedia
The main dishes are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh, fattoush, labneh, shawarma, mujaddara, shanklish, pastırma, sujuk and baklava. - Wikipedia
The site of Tell Qaramel has several round stone towers dated to 10650 BC, making them the oldest structures of this kind in the world. - Wikipedia
The vast majority of this population was from Iraq (1,300,000), but sizeable populations from Palestine (543,400) and Somalia (5,200) also lived in the country. - Wikipedia
Urbanization: 57.4% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook