We have started to collect the most important news related to Syria in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Nineteen of the 220 members of an Assyrian Christian community kidnapped by Islamic State in Syria have been freed, activists say.
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New CCTV pictures appear to show three UK girls on the Turkish leg of what is believed to have been their journey to join Islamic State in Syria.
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In the parts of northern Syria where so called Islamic State has taken control, a brutal code of public floggings and executions is being enforced with particular dangers for women.
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The intelligence agencies are accused of using flawed tactics after it emerged they were aware of the man dubbed 'Jihadi John' before he went to Syria.
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The prime minister defends the security services amid criticisms they failed to stop the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" from travelling to Syria.
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What we know about abduction of Syrian Christians by IS
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A former Syrian doctor admits having a hoard of explosive ingredients and instructions on how to prepare bombs in Edinburgh.
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A people smuggler tells the BBC he spoke to the person who smuggled three UK schoolgirls into Syria.
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US authorities arrest three foreign nationals living in New York who agents say tried to join the Islamic State in Syria.
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There is growing concern over the fate of dozens of Christians abducted by Islamic State militants, amid continuing fighting in north-east Syria.
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The Syrian government dropped barrel bombs on hundreds of sites last year, violating a UN Security Council resolution, Human Rights Watch says.
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Three missing UK teenagers believed to be heading to join Islamic State militants are thought to have crossed into Syria, police say.
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Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted dozens of Assyrian Christians from several villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say.
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Bethnal Green Academy in east London, which the three missing schoolgirls believed to be heading to Syria to join Islamic State used to attend, has reopened after half term.
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France for the first time confiscates the passports of six of its citizens allegedly planning to travel to Syria to join jihadists.
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There is no evidence that three girls thought to be going to Syria to join Islamic State were radicalised at Bethnal Green Academy, its principal says.
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One of the three schoolgirls believed to be heading to Syria to join Islamic State militants flew to Turkey on her older sister's passport, it has been confirmed.
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Relatives of three missing London girls say there were no signs the teenagers were planning to go to Syria, in emotional interviews appealing for their return.
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Renu Begum, the sister of one of the three girls who are believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State,, urges her to come home, saying she is "our baby".
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Turkish forces enter war-torn northern Syria to evacuate troops guarding a historic tomb, demolishing it and moving the remains elsewhere.
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There is still no news of the three schoolgirls who are thought to be trying to cross the border in Syria to join IS.
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The family of a Glasgow woman who may have encouraged three London girls to join militants in Syria say security services "failed" to stop them leaving.
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Turkish troops cross into Syria to evacuate and destroy Suleyman Shah's mausoleum - an enclave where the forefather of the Ottoman empire was buried.
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Two families of two of the three London schoolgirls believed to be on their way to Syria to join so-called Islamic State, have issued direct appeals to them to return home.
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Relatives of three London girls believed to be heading to Syria appeal to them to return, as the family of a Glaswegian woman express their horror at reports she may have recruited them.
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David Cameron calls the disappearance of three London schoolgirls feared to be travelling to join Islamic State extremists in Syria as "deeply concerning".
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Three missing east London schoolgirls are feared to be travelling to Syria via Turkey, police say.
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Fears grow over three London schoolgirls who have flown to Turkey, amid concerns they may cross the Syrian border and join the Islamic State terrorist group.
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UN investigators say they are considering revealing the names of an estimated 200 individuals suspected of committing war crimes in Syria.
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Turkey and the US sign an agreement to train and equip moderate Syrian opposition forces, US officials say.
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Syrian Kurdish fighters and rebel forces have advanced into Raqqa province, capturing 19 villages from Islamic State, a monitoring group says.
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Syria's government is prepared to halt aerial attacks on Aleppo for six weeks as part of a local ceasefire plan, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says.
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A BBC investigation has gathered evidence of how looted antiquities are being smuggled from Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State militants.
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Syrian government forces have captured several villages north of Aleppo as they seek to cut a key supply route for rebels inside the city, activists say.
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War victim benefits from advanced surgery in Israel
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What does Syria's president really think about his country's civil war?
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Did elderly Syrian woman really call IS fighters 'donkeys'?
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Air strikes carried out by Syria's air force have killed almost 200 people in the past 10 days, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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A Belgian court jails the leader of a group that sent jihadists to Syria to 12 years in jail, in a case with 46 suspects - the largest such case in Belgium.
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A Belgian court is due to return the verdicts of 46 people accused of belonging to a Belgian Islamist group that sent young Muslim men to fight in Syria.
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The aunts of aid worker Kayla Mueller pay tribute to the 26-year-old, who was held by Islamic State militants in Syria, and whose death has been confirmed by the US.
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Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad tells the BBC he receives indirect messages from the US-led coalition about air strikes against Islamic State.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies dropping "indiscriminate weapons" such as barrel bombs on rebel-held areas, following the uprising against his rule.
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Japan seizes the passport of a journalist to prevent him from travelling to Syria, after two Japanese hostages were killed by militants there last month.
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Islamic State militants say US hostage Kayla Jean Mueller was killed in a Jordanian air strike on Syria, without providing evidence.
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A British jihadist who travelled to Syria then faked his own death to try to return to the UK undetected is given a 12-year custodial sentence.
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Heavy fighting in and around the Syrian capital Damascus kills at least 40 people and wounds many more, state media and observers say.
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The UN says it is "extremely concerned" by pictures which appear to show the logo of the Islamic State militant group on its food aid to Syria.
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Terror raids in Paris and Lyon lead to the arrest of eight men suspected of recruiting fighters for Islamist militants in Syria.
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Fake "femme fatales" have been used to steal battle plans and other data from Syrian opposition groups, a report suggests.
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A bomb explodes on a bus in Syria's capital Damascus, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more, activists and media reports say.
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Days after Kurdish forces drove Islamic State militants from Kobane in northern Syria, people who fled the town are now waiting to return.
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Hundreds of Syrian children have contributed to an exhibition about their lives in refugee camps in Lebanon.
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Kurdish forces have driven Islamic State (IS) militants from of Kobane, officials say, ending a four-month battle for the northern Syrian town.
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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad dismisses the country's Western-backed opposition as "puppets", as a new round of peace talks begins in Moscow.
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Five Lebanese government soldiers are killed in clashes with militants near the Syrian border, the Lebanese army says.
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More than 30 people are killed in air strikes by Syrian government warplanes near the capital Damascus, activists say.
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Coalition strikes in Syria and Iraq have halted or reversed the momentum of Islamic State militants, the top US diplomat says at talks in London.
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The UN envoy and former prime minister Gordon Brown has said he wants to provide Syrian refugees in Lebanon with hope and is calling on the international community to help
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Dozens of people are killed in a suspected Syrian government air strike on a village held by Islamic State in eastern Syria, activists say.
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A British jihadist who faked his death in an attempt to return from Syria to the UK undetected admits four terrorism offences.
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Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards confirm that a general was killed in a suspected Israeli air strike in the Syrian Golan Heights.
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A woman whose son came back to Britain after fighting in Syria says returning fighters need more support.
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An Israeli air strike kills six members of Hezbollah in Syrian sector of Golan Heights, the Lebanese militant movement says.
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At least 35 Syrian soldiers die when their plane crashes in Idlib province, with authorities blaming bad weather and rebels claiming to have shot it down.
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Islamic State militants are reported to have publicly killed 15 people over the past 24 hours in Syria and pushed two men to their deaths in Iraq.
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The US says it is to send 400 troops and hundreds of support staff to train moderate rebels against Islamic State (IS) in Syria.
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Two young Italian aid workers who had been taken hostage in northern Syria last year arrive safely home following their release.
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Islamic State (IS) is reported to have beheaded a man accused of setting up a guerrilla cell in eastern Syria that attacked its fighters.
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USS Carl Vinson is an aircraft carrier at the centre of air operations against IS militants in Syria and Iraq.
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The UN refugee agency urges the international community to help alleviate the "desperate living conditions" of Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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China arrested a group of Uighurs and Turks in November over a plot to use fake passports to smuggle people to Syria, state media report.
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