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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 ...
Syria, [g] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [h] [16] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.
Operation Dawn of Freedom [d] refers to a military offensive launched by the Syrian National Army (SNA; a Turkish-backed coalition of forces) against the Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAAF) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), targeting the northern Aleppo Governorate region between al-Bab and Tadef within the Operation Euphrates Shield zone.
[citation needed] In July 1949, Syria was the last Arab country to sign an armistice agreement with Israel. In March 1949, Syria's national government was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Husni al-Zaim in a coup. Some authors claim involvement by the United States CIA. [4] [5] [6] [7]
17 September – At least seven people are killed in Syria during simultaneous explosions of pagers used primarily by Hezbollah members in Syria and Lebanon. [40] 22 September – Three children are killed and a fourth child from the same family is injured, when a land mine in a plastic bag explodes near a park in Manbij, Aleppo Governorate. [41]
Protesters throughout Syria remained defiant despite intensifying arrests and attacks in Daraa and Douma. [1] The Syrian military continued shelling homes in Daraa with tanks. [2] As the military siege on Daraa continued, Assad's security forces allegedly killed 40 civilians elsewhere in the town of Tel Kalakh.
In the beginning of Faisal’s reign in the Arab Kingdom of Syria, particularly after the San Remo Conference of March 1920, the term "Southern Syria" emerged as a political neologism synonymous with Palestine, [2] and it would take on an increased political significance as a way of rejecting the separation of Palestine from the Kingdom. [8]