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The US launches retaliatory airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, in response to an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan. [ 4 ] 5 February – A drone attack against a U.S. military base in Deir ez-Zor Governorate kills seven Syrian Democratic Forces fighters and injures 18 others.
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 ...
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, this caused some population displacement towards various Syrian cities, including Hama. [ 19 ] Hama city is a strategic city which had supply lines to loyalist coastal strongholds [ 20 ] and is close to areas inhabited by Alawites who had largely backed the Assad government in the past.
The airstrikes on Al Hury, Syria, 27 June 2021. On 28 June 2021, President Biden directed airstrikes against Iran-backed militia groups close to the Syria-Iraq border. [2] F-15E and F-16 aircraft were used to launch the attack in what the U.S. described as a retaliatory attack against U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq by militia groups.
AMMAN (Reuters) -At least 25 people were killed in northwestern Syria in air strikes carried out by the Syrian government and Russia, the Syrian opposition-run rescue service known as the White ...
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and ...
23 May - Jableh and Tartous bombings in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria, killed at least 184 people. [40] The Syrian government had accused Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey of being behind the wave of bombings in these cities. [41] [42] 27 July - Qamishli bombings killed more than 44 and more than 171 were wounded. The IS praised the ...
On 27 November 2024, Syrian opposition groups led by Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive in northwestern Syria on the forces of the Bashar al-Assad government. This marked the first major offensive by any faction in the conflict since the March 2020 Idlib ceasefire. [14] On 5 December, opposition forces captured Hama.