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Syrian Army Syrian government forces assaulted the city of Hama to crack down on the opposition, leading to the deaths of up to 200 civilians. [21] Darayya massacre: 20–25 August 2012 Darayya, Rif Dimashq: 320 [22] –500 [23] Syrian Army Many people were killed in a five-day Army assault on the town, which the rebel army had surrendered . [10]
The Syrian government claimed that more than 80 people were killed by Islamist rebels, with the most of them being civilians. [ 95 ] Between 15 and 28 December, activists accused the Syrian government of launching helicopter attacks with barrel bombs [ 96 ] against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, leaving 517 people dead, including 151 children, 46 ...
According to the Syrian opposition website Syrian Martyrs, the conflict's documented death toll was 151,888 up to 30 April 2016, which was the time of its last update. [26] The number includes 35,859 rebel combatants but does not include members of the government security forces or pro-government foreign combatants who have died. [27]
QUTAYFAH, Syria (Reuters) -An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled ...
A web of Syria's neighbors and countries around the world have backed either Assad's government or various rebel opposition groups to varying degrees. Syria's war: How barbarity, confusion and ...
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from November 2024. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found in casualties of the Syrian civil war.. On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [1] led by Islamist Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive [2] against pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA ...
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 ...
A UN report confirmed this, saying soldiers had used children as young as eight, detaining and killing children afterwards. The UN added the Syrian Government as one of the worst offenders on its annual "list of shame". [46] In May 2012, Al Arabiya aired leaked footage of a man being tortured in a government detention centre in Kafranbel. [47]