Governorates of Syria

Syrian Kurdish forces have recaptured more than a third of the villages around Kobane from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) since routing the jihadists from the town a fortnight ago, a monitor said Feb. 8.
      

Kurdish militants have wrestled control of 65 villages in Kobane's countryside from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) control since Jan. 26 in northern Syria, according to a Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) source.

At least 45 people were killed in Syrian government air strikes on opposition areas around Damascus Feb. 5 after rebels fired dozens of mortar rounds at the capital, a monitor said.
      
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least six children were among those killed in nearly 40 air raids on parts of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus province.
     

Syrian Kurdish militias, who drove out Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants from the center of Kobane after 134 days of battle, are launching operations into the villages surrounding the Syrian border town in a bid to clear the last frontiers of the battle from the Islamists.

Kurdish fighters have reportedly expelled the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists from the Syrian border town of Kobane after more than four months of fighting, while Iraqi forces announced landmark gains in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala.

Kurdish fighters have expelled jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Syrian border town of Kobane after more than four months of fighting, a monitor said Jan. 26.
      

 Four civilians were killed and dozens wounded when rebels fired a barrage of rockets and mortar rounds Jan. 25 at central Damascus, a monitoring group said.
      
The rebel attack came two days after they threatened to retaliate for deadly air raids by the Syrian regime against an opposition-held area on the edge of the capital.
      

Kurdish fighters have seized the security and government district of Syria's Kobane from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and now control 80 percent of the border town, a monitoring group said Jan. 5.
     

At least 44 members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were killed in clashes with Kurdish troops in Syria on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
      
Thirty of the jihadists were killed fighting against members of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the village of Qassiab in Hasakeh province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Satellite imagery indicate that 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria, whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by its ongoing civil war, the United Nations' training and research arm (UNITAR) said on Dec. 23.