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The following lists events that happened in 2014 in Syria.

Incumbents

Events

For events related to the Civil War, see Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (January–July 2014) and Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (August–December 2014)

January

  • January 5 - A sniper kills a man and six people are wounded in clashes between districts in Tripoli, Lebanon, that support rival sides in neighboring Syria's civil war.[1]
  • January 7 - Both the Syrian opposition and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant mass execute dozens of their combatant prisoners.[2]
  • January 9 - Syrian Civil War
    • A car bomb kills 18 people, including women and children, in central Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization.[3][4]
    • Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda try to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who have traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home.[5]
  • January 11 - 500 people are killed in inter-factional fighting between an alliance of secular rebels and moderate Islamists against radical Islamists.[6]
  • January 12 - Syrian State TV claims that a rebel mortar attack kills 19 people in the government-controlled Ghouta and Karm al shami areas of the city of Homs.[7]
  • January 14 - 46 Palestinians and Syrian residents in the Yarmouk Camp have died of starvation and lack of medical care, since October, from a Syrian army enforced blockade.[8]
  • January 16 - A suicide bomber kills 4 people and injures 26 in the Lebanese town of Hermel, a Hezbollah stronghold near the Syrian border.[9]
  • January 17 - A rocket fired from Syria into the Lebanese border town of Arsal kills seven people and wounds 15.[10]
  • January 20 - Two car bombs hit a rebel-held post on the Syrian border with Turkey, killing at least 16 people amidst continuing fighting between Turkey-supported rebels and Saudi-supported rebels.[11]

February

  • February 6 - Fighting between Syrian rebels and government forces rages around the Aleppo Central Prison in the war-torn city of Aleppo, but it is unclear whether rebels control all or part of the facility.[citation needed]
  • February 7 - Civilians are evacuated from a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Homs after more than 18 months under a government blockade.
  • February 9 - Hundreds of civilians are evacuated from Homs, as a tense truce between rebel and government forces is maintained.[citation needed]
  • February 12 - Syrian Civil War
    • The Syrian Army and their Lebanese ally Hezbollah begin an assault to retake the strategic border town Yabrud from the Syrian rebels.[citation needed]
    • Russia says it will veto a U.N. resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria, claiming that the draft is an effort to prepare for military strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's government.[citation needed]
  • February 14 - From 18 to 43 people including civilians are killed and dozens wounded by a car bomb outside a mosque in the southern Syrian village of al-Yadouda according to local reports.[citation needed]
  • February 16 - Syrian Civil War
    • Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, calls on other sectarian forces in the Arab world to withdraw from Syria, saying that if they did so, Hezbollah would also "not remain in Syria either."[citation needed]
    • A Syrian child is transferred to an Israeli hospital near Tiberias for emergency treatment after being injured during clashes in Syria, near the Israeli border, between rebels and Syrian Army.[citation needed]
  • February 23 - Seven people are killed and 50 wounded in a car bombing near a field hospital in northern Syria, close to the border with Turkey.[citation needed]
  • February 24 - Israeli Air Force planes reportedly bomb a weapons shipment of SS-21 missiles destined for Hezbollah near a Hezbollah stronghold on the Lebanon-Syria border.[citation needed]
  • February 26 - Syrian army and Hezbollah troops kill over 70 rebel fighters in an ambush in the outskirts of Damascus.[citation needed]
  • February 28 - Syrian air strikes near the Lebanese border town of Arsal killed three people.[citation needed]

March

April

  • April 11 - Chemical weapons are used again in Syria, this time on the town of Kafr Zita, Hama.[12][13]

May

  • May 7 - Rebels withdraw from the besieged city of Homs in accordance with the U.N.-brokered deal between them and the Syrian government.[14]
  • May 23 - Russia and China veto a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Syria.[15]

June

  • June 3 - Syria presidential election takes place in government-controlled areas, amidst an opposition boycott. While the West denounces the election as rigged and "meaningless", delegations from Assad's main supporters, including Russia, Iran and Venezuela, praise the election as transparent and free.[16]
  • June 4 - The Syrian government announces Assad was re-elected, claiming that Assad had won with 88.7% of the vote and a turnout of 73.47% of eligible voters.[16]
  • June 9 - The Syrian government declares a general amnesty for all citizens;[17] Assad would later fail to follow through and release any political prisoners.[18]
  • June 18 - Syrian Civil War
    • The OPCW releases a preliminary report indicating more chemical weapons have been used since the August 2013 attacks, confirming France's suspicions that the Syrian government has still been using chlorine gas attacks.[19]
  • June 23 - The final stockpile of "declared" chemical weapons is shipped out of the country.[20]
  • June 25 - The Syrian Air Force bombs Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-held towns in Iraq, killing at least 57 civilians.[21]

July

  • July 16 - Bashar Assad is sworn in to serve his third seven-year term as President of Syria.[22]

August

  • August 4 - The Lebanese Army states that 14 soldiers have been killed and 22 are missing after alleged clashes with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters on the Syrian border.[23]
  • August 19 - American journalist James Wright Foley, kidnapped in 2012, has reportedly been beheaded by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.[24]
  • August 21 - The Syrian opposition accuses the Syrian army of launching a chemical attack on the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, killing at least six civilians.[25]
  • August 22 - The United Nations estimates that the death toll in Syria has doubled to at least 191,000 in the past year.[26]
  • August 27 - Syrian Civil War
    • The UN Human Rights Council issues a report accusing both IS militants and Syrian government forces of committing war crimes in Syria.[27]
  • August 28 - Syrian Civil War
    • An unidentified rebel group captures 43 Fijiian peacekeepers on the Golan Heights.[28]
  • August 29 - Syrian Civil War
    • The United Nations estimates that three million Syrians live as refugees overseas while another 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, and states that "almost half of all Syrians have now been forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives".[29]

September

October–December

See Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (August–December 2014)

References

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  2. ^ "Syria crisis: Rebel groups 'execute rivals'". 7 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
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  4. ^ "Car bomb kills 18 in Syria's Hama province". 9 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  5. ^ "Syria Militants Said to Recruit Visiting Americans to Attack U.S." 9 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Syria conflict: Rebel clashes 'leaves almost 500 dead'". 11 January 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Syrian mortar attack kills at least 19". 13 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ^ "Syria conflict: dozens die of starvation in besieged Damascus refugee camp". 15 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Suicide car bomb kills three in Hezbollah stronghold near Syria". 16 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  10. ^ "Rocket fired from Syria kills seven in Lebanese border town". 17 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  11. ^ "Sixteen killed by twin bombs at Syria-Turkey border post". 20 January 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Timeline of Syrian Chemical Weapons Activity, 2012-2015". www.armscontrol.org. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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  14. ^ "Rebels evacuated from Homs, cradle of Syrian uprising". Reuters India. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
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  16. ^ a b "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wins third term - BBC News". BBC News. 5 June 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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  27. ^ "Syria and Isis committing war crimes, says UN". The Guardian. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
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  29. ^ Cumming-bruce, Nick (29 August 2014). "Syrian Refugees Surpass 3 Million, U.N. Says". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  30. ^ Raf Sanchez (September 2, 2014). "Steven Sotloff 'beheaded by Islamic State' – latest". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved April 22, 2016.
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