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Syria is free. Syria is free." World leaders react. ... The rebels quickly took control of Aleppo, one of Syria's largest cities, Hama, and the strategic city of Homs, which sits at an important ...
On 5 August 2011, an anti-government demonstration took place in Syria called "God is with us", during which the Syrian security forces shot the protesters from inside the ambulances, killing 11 people. [272] The Arab Spring events in Syria subsequently escalated into the Syrian civil war.
6 June: ISIL militants carried out multiple attacks in the city of Mosul, Iraq. [60] [61] 7 June: ISIL militants took over the University of Anbar in Ramadi, Iraq, killed guards and held 1,300 students hostage, before being ousted by the Iraqi military. [62] [63] 8 June: An ISIL bombing in Jalula killed 18 members of the Kurdish security forces ...
[22] [23] [21] The Syrian military conducted combing operations and airstrikes against the pocket, but with limited success. [24] [25] IS propaganda claims a peak territorial extent of 282,485 km 2. [26] The majority of the Islamic State's territory, population, revenue, and prestige came from the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria. [14]
The Syrian government fell early Sunday after rebels entered the capital of Damascus, ending the Assad family’s 50-year rule in the war-torn country. The rebels’ victory concluded a 10-day ...
PHOTO: Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Dec. 8, 2024. (Omar Sanadiki/AP) "This is a moment of considerable risk and uncertainty ...
Syria launched new strikes the next day when at least 50 people were killed and 132 others wounded, including civilians, after missiles launched by Syrian fighters hit a municipal building, a market, and a bank in Al Rutba. It was unclear whether the Syrian fighters actually entered Iraqi territory when they made the airstrikes. [6]
There were two routes towards Syria from Iraq: one was via Daumat-ul-Jandal, and the other was through Mesopotamia, passing through Raqqa. The Muslim armies in Syria were in need of urgent reinforcement, so Khalid avoided the conventional route to Syria via Daumat ul Jandal, as it was the longer route, and would take weeks to reach Syria.