2024 in Syria
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Events in the year 2024 in Syria.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 20 January – Assassination of Sadegh Omidzadeh: Israel launches four rockets against a residential building in Damascus, killing four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and another person.[2]
February
[edit]- 1 February – According to American officials, American plans have been approved for multi-day strikes in Iraq and Syria against multiple targets, including Iranian personnel and facilities.[3]
- 2 February – February 2024 American strikes in Iraq and Syria:
- 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. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility.[5]
- 25 February – Two Hezbollah members are killed by an Israeli strike in al-Qusayr.[6]
March
[edit]- 1 March – An Israeli airstrike in Baniyas kills three people, including an IRGC field commander.[7]
- 16 March – At least 16 truffle hunters including nine women are killed in a landmine explosion in northern Raqqa. The mine is suspected to have been planted by Islamic State.[8]
- 17 March – Israel launches airstrikes in southern Syria. The Syrian state media agency SANA reports that the strikes result in a soldier being wounded and few "material losses".[9]
- 26 March – The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bombs Syria, killing one Quds Force officer and 15 other militants.[10]
- 29 March – An Israeli airstrike targeting Aleppo International Airport kills 36-38 Syrian soldiers and six Hezbollah fighters. The incident marks the deadliest Israeli attack on Syria since 2021.[11]
April
[edit]- 1 April – 2024 Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus: An Israeli airstrike targeting the Iranian embassy in Damascus kills eight members of the IRGC, including brigadier general Mohammad Reza Zahedi.[12]
- 6 April – Seven children are killed in Daraa Governorate when a roadside bomb explodes.[13]
- 19 April – Missiles believed to be fired by the IDF allegedly hit sites near the Iranian city of Isfahan, sites in Iraq and radar sites in Syria.[14]
May
[edit]- 2 May – Several people are injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on Damascus, the first since the attack on the Iranian consulate in April.[15]
- 25 May – One person is killed in a car bombing in Mezzeh, Damascus.[16]
June
[edit]- 6 June – A school bus plunges into the Orontes River near Darkush, Idlib Governorate, killing at least six children.[17]
- 11 June – Iraqi security forces in cooperation with U.S.-led coalition forces kill Abu Zainab, a senior member of Islamic State in Raqqa.[18]
- 12 June – Sixteen Syrian soldiers, including an officer, are killed in Homs Governorate in a minefield laid by Islamic State militants and in an attack by the Islamic State.[19]
- 18 June – An Israeli airstrike kills a Syrian army officer in southern Syria.[20]
- 20 June – A court in Sweden acquits former Syrian army general Mohammed Hamo on charges of aiding and abetting crimes against international law during the Syrian Civil War.[21]
July
[edit]- 1 July – Seven people are killed after anti-Turkish protests break out in Turkish-occupied Northern Syria following anti-Syrian riots in Turkey a day earlier.[22]
- 3 July – Investigators in Germany and Sweden arrested eight suspects allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government over alleged participation in crimes against humanity in Syria.[23]
- 4 July – The Islamic State kills eight people, including two civilians, in an ambush on pro-government militiamen in the Badiya desert.[24]
- 5 July – Luna al-Shibl, a special adviser to President Assad and concurrent director of his political and media offices, dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on 2 July.[25]
- 9 July – Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two Israelis.[26]
- 14 July – A Syrian soldier is killed and three others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus and other areas in southern Syria.[27]
- 15 July:
- 2024 Syrian parliamentary election.[28]
- Muhammad Baraa Katerji, a businessman who is also an associate of President Bashar al-Assad, is killed along with his assistant in an Israeli drone strike near Al-Sabboura.[29][30]
- 16 July – Former governor of Deir ez-Zor Governorate and director of the Adra Prison Samir Ousman al-Sheikh is arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles, California amid accusations of torturing and killing political dissidents while serving as prison director and governor.[31]
- 26 July – Italy appoints an ambassador to Syria after 12 years, becoming the first G7 country to do so since the Syrian Civil War.[32]
August
[edit]- 12 August:
- Eighteen progovernment militiamen are killed in an attack by the Syrian Democratic Forces-affiliated Deir ez-Zor Military Council in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[33]
- A magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes Hama Governorate, killing one person.[34]
- 23 August – Abu Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Din, is killed during an airstrike in Jabal Zawiya, Idlib Governorate.[35]
- 24 August – Turkey and Russia resume joint patrols over a parts of northern Syria covered by Operation Peace Spring for the first time since October 2023.[36]
September
[edit]- 9 September – At least 25 people are killed and more than 40 others are wounded in overnight Israeli strikes on Iranian research centers in Masyaf[37] and in Tartus and Hama governorates.[38]
- 14 September – President Assad nominates former Communications Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali as prime minister.[39]
- 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]
- Kata'ib Hezbollah announce that Abu Haidar al-Khafaji, a senior commander in the group, was killed in Damascus, and blame Israel for the attack.[42]
- 24 September – Thirty-seven militants belonging to Islamic State and Hurras al-Din are killed in two separate US airstrikes in the northwest of the country.[43]
- 26 September – Over 22,000 residents in Lebanon are reported to have crossed into Syria to escape ongoing Israeli airstrikes and potential escalation of conflict.[44]
- 27 September – Israel launches an airstrike against a Syrian Army post near Kfeir Yabous, killing five soldiers and wounding one.[45]
- 30 September – Twelve pro-Iranian fighters are killed in airstrikes of unknown origin in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[46]
October
[edit]- 1 October – The Syrian military intercepts several drones and missiles in Damascus. Some explode in the Mezzeh neighbourhood, killing three people and wounding nine more.[47]
- 9 October – Entrepreneur Jin Davod is awarded the Nansen Refugee Award by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, citing her work in connecting trauma survivors to therapists.[48]
- 20 October – The martyrs of Damascus, consisting of eight Franciscan friars and three Maronite brothers who were killed on account of their religion in Ottoman-ruled Syria in 1860, are canonized as saints of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis.[49]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[50]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 8 March – Revolution Day
- 21 March – Mother's Day
- 31 March - Gregorian Easter
- 10 April - Eid al-Fitr
- 17 April - Independence Day
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 5 May - Julian Easter
- 6 May – Martyrs' Day
- 16 June – Eid al-Adha
- 7 July – Islamic New Year
- 15 September – The Prophet's Birthday
- 6 October - Tishreen Liberation War Day
- 25 December - Christmas Day
Deaths
[edit]- 1 January – Riad al-Turk, 93, Syrian political dissident.[51]
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