Observatory

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and 13 injured when a bombing raid by the US-led coalition hit an army camp in the east of the country, a monitor said on Dec. 7.

Jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) edged closer to a strategic airbase in eastern Syria in heavy clashes that left 54 fighters dead, a monitoring group said on Sept.10.

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies seized the last regime-held military base in northwestern Idlib province on Sept.9, in the latest setback for President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

The toll from heavy government bombardment of a rebel stronghold outside the Syrian capital rose on Aug. 23 to 34 civilians, including 12 children, a monitoring group said.

The increased toll came as nine people, including civilians, were killed in rocket attacks on a regime-held neighbourhood northeast of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.    

At least 70 people were killed Aug. 16 in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, a monitoring group said.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) hit a weapons depot belonging to a rebel group allied with Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate overnight in northwestern Syria, a monitor said on August 12.

More than 50 child soldiers recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria have been killed since the beginning of this year, a monitoring group said July 15.    

Two coalitions of Syrian rebels battled to advance in government-held western Aleppo on July 4, seizing an army barracks in one district, but being pushed back elsewhere.

The fighting in the country's former economic powerhouse is some of the fiercest since the Syrian conflict arrived in the northern city in mid-2012.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters entered the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh overnight, seizing two neighbourhoods from government forces in heavy clashes, a monitoring group said on June 25.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Leavnt (ISIL) militants have laid landmines and explosives at the site of the ancient ruins in Syria?s Palmyra, a monitor said June 21, adding the purpose of the move was unclear.

The head of Syria?s antiquities department, reached by phone in Damascus, said he had also received reports from Palmyra residents that mines were laid at the site.