[394][395][396] In the evening of 24 August, pro-Iranian militias executed a missile attack on the Conoco site and Green Village near al-Omar oil field which had injured three U.S. military service members. In December 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced a decision to withdraw the roughly two thousand U.S. troops remaining in Syria. [301] A civilian was also killed and 2 others were injured by Syrian Army bombardment in the village of Maaret Elnaasan, Idlib. [312], On the same day, an SDF fighter was shot dead and another was injured after suspected ISIS members opened fire on an SDF military vehicle in Himar Al-Ali, near Al-Kasrah. [23], On the same day, according to SOHR, a military commander of the Syrian 4th Armoured Division was killed in an IED blast in Daraa city, as part of the on-going insurrection. More than 2,300 people have now been confirmed dead across Turkey and neighbouring Syria after a 7.8 magnitude tremor struck in the early hours of Monday. Prison Attack in Syria Is Latest Sign of ISIS Resurgence Non-UN aid groups in northeast Syria, which is mostly under the control of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration, a quasi-autonomous authority, say they have been unable to bring in enough aid, particularly for health care, since the UN was forced tostopits cross-border operations between Iraq and Syria in January 2020. [80], On 17 February, following Syrian army shelling on opposition-held town of Al-Dana the day prior, skirmishes broke out between opposition and Syrian government forces on the nearby Idlib frontline, near the town of Darat Izza, leaving one opposition fighter and one Syrian soldier dead. [25], On 18 January in Northeastern Syria, Russian jets launched a series of airstrikes on ISIL positions in the eastern Homs desert, Maadan desert in the Raqqah countryside, and Deir Ezzor desert, killing several ISIL fighters and destroying several vehicles, according to SOHR. The government justified the decision under its overbroad and abusive Counterterrorism Law of 2019. More than 3.4 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, and many have attempted to seek refuge in Europe. [449][450], On the same day, 4 Syrian soldiers were killed in an ISIS ambush whilst patrolling the desert west of Palmyra. All told, the death toll in Trkiye and Syria stands at 4,300 but is likely to continue to rise. Clashes broke out between the drug smugglers and the Jordanian army after the operation was thwarted. A senior Iraqi ISIS militant by the name of Abdulrahman al-Iraqi was killed in the fighting. [258], On 9 June, a man was killed in a airdrop raid by SDF and Coalition forces in the village of al-Atallah, south of Al-Hasakah. It was absolutely otherworldly; I'm still processing it. [455], In the month of November 2022, the SOHR reported 348 people were killed in Syria. The siege lasted six days. This was after a similar attack was carried out in neighbouring Iraq. In the first half of 2021, the SNA arbitrarily detained 162 individuals, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights. This was the first verdict in a historic trial of two former Syrian intelligence officials, on charges related to state-sponsored torture in Syria. [437], In October, the United Nations called for a "nationwide ceasefire" in Syria. [327] A child died of injuries he sustained a day prior following the explosion of a remnant landmine in the village of Qurtal, near Koban. [124][125], On 21 March, a fighter of the Al-Hamza Division was shot dead in the village of Aziziyah, near Ras al-Ayn, during an internal dispute over smuggling.