What's this? This is an unbiased just-the-facts news timeline ('newsline') about Syria, created by Newslines contributors. Become a contributor

Syria

Syria240 posts
Latest News view > Click for Biography view
31 Aug, 2016

Killed in airstrike

Death0 Comments

IS spokesman and head of external operations Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is pictured in this undated handout photoIslamic State says al-Adnani, one of its most prominent and longest-serving leaders, was killed in what appeared to be an airstrike on a vehicle traveling in the Syrian town of al-Bab, depriving the militant group of the man in charge of directing attacks overseas. US officials  stopped short of confirming Adnani’s death, as assessments often take days and often lag behind official announcements by militant groups.

26 Oct, 2014

Killed in Syria

Death0 Comments

Hassan is the fourth person from Portsmouth killed while fighting for ISIS. Chairman of the Portsmouth Jami Mosque, Abdul Jalil:

It has been confirmed with the family that he has died. Right now they are very upset. I am saddened and again shocked for the community about this news.

It is thought he died in Kobane.

20 Oct, 2014

Dies in car crash

Death0 Comments

Shim, a Lebanese-American reporter for Press TV, is killed in a car crash in Turkey a day after stating that Turkish intelligence was spying on her. She had been reporting that ISIS militants had crossed the border in trucks used by NGOs to carry food. Press TV broadcast:

Just a couple of days ago she had been threatened by Turkish intelligence

https://twitter.com/shabbirh/status/524140074792148992

14 Sep, 2014

Austrian girl may be dead

Death0 Comments

Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Alexander Marakovits says authorities have received intelligence that one of the two Austrian teen girls believed to have joined ISIS may have been killed:

We also have this information and have checked it, but cannot say with absolute certainty that it is true. But the parents have been informed their daughter could be dead.

It is not specified whether the girl believed to have died is 16-year-old Samra Kesinovic or 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic, both of whom are believed to have run way from their homes in Vienna in April to join ISIS.

28 Aug, 2014

Second American ISIS fighter may be dead

Death0 Comments

U.S. authorities are investigating a claim by a coalition of Syrian opposition groups that they have killed an American national during fighting with kharijites, or extremists. The statement is an apparent reference to fighting several days earlier between ISIS and the coalition, which is made up of fighters from the Free Syrian Army, Syrian Al Qaeda branch al-Nusra Front, as well as smaller militant factions. If true, the unnamed militant would be the second American ISIS fighter confirmed killed in battle, after the U.S. government said that Florida native Douglas MacArthur McCain also died in the fighting over the weekend.

27 Aug, 2014

15 Australian militants dead

Death0 Comments

Australia’s intelligence chief says at least 15 Australian fighters have been killed in Iraq and Syria, including two suicide bombers:

The draw of foreign fighters to Syria and Iraq is significant and includes more Australians than any other previous extremist conflicts put together

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) believes the number of citizens posing a potential security threat has increased substantially:

ASIO believes there are about 60 or so Australians fighting with the two principal extremist Al-Qaeda derivatives, Jahabat-al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Syria or Iraq.

12 Aug, 2014

19 Lebanese soldiers dead

Death0 Comments

The Lebanese military confirms that 19 soldiers have died in its battle against ISIS and Al Qaeda affiliate the Al-Nusra Front for the border town of Arsal. At least 60 militants are also dead. Army statement on the most recent death:

Cpl. Suheil Mohammad Dannawi, born in 1987 in Tripoli, north Lebanon, was killed in the battle waged by the Army against terrorist groups in the area of Arsal.

7 Aug, 2014

42 Lebanese civilians dead

Death0 Comments

A medical official says 42 civilians have died while over 400 are wounded in clashes between the military and fighters from ISIS and Al Qaeda branch the Al-Nusra Front for control of the border town of Arsal. Lebanese Red Cross official Abdullah Zogheib says medics have evacuated 42 wounded people after the rebels retreat, mostly women and children:

Most of them had very serious wounds. They had been shot by bullets, some in the head, and there were amputees from shell fire