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List of events
Events in the year 2022 in
Syria
Incumbents
Events
For events related to the
civil war , see
Timeline of the Syrian civil war (2022)
20–30 January - The
Battle of al-Hasakah , a large-scale
Islamic State (IS) attack and
prison riot aimed at freeing arrested IS fighters from al-Sina'a prison in
Al-Hasakah , which resulted in a partial strategic victory and major propaganda victory for IS over the Kurdish-led and US-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with hundreds of prisoners, including important Emirs, being freed from captivity. The attack was the largest IS attack since
it lost its last key Syrian territory in 2019 .
[2] 346 IS and 154 SDF fighters were killed, the SDF arrested 1,100 prisoners and 400 prisoners were found missing.
[3]
[4]
3 February: ISIL leader
Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi killed himself during a raid by
US special forces on a house in
Atme .
[5] According to the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , thirteen other people, including seven civilians, died during the raid.
[6]
22 February –
Syria voices support for
Russia 's recognition of the
Donetsk People's Republic and the
Luhansk People's Republic as independent states.
[7]
1 March – Eleven people die after a fire breaks out in a mall in
Damascus .
[8]
18–20 June -
Clashes took place between
Ahrar al-Sham and the
Levant Front , two factions of the
Turkish-backed
Syrian National Army , across the
Turkish-occupied areas of the
Aleppo Governorate . Ahrar al-Sham was supported by
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the latter's territories in the
Idlib Governorate , while the
Sham Legion and
Jaysh al-Islam backed the Levant Front.
[9]
[10]
20 July – The
Foreign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations with
Ukraine .
[11]
22 July -
Israel
attacked government military positions near
Damascus , killing three Syrian government soldiers and wounding seven others.
[12]
[13]
4 September – A
Syrian Air Force helicopter crashes in
Hama ,
Syria , killing all of the people on board.
[14]
7 September – Eleven people are killed and two others are injured by a
building collapse in
Aleppo .
[15]
10 September – The
Kurdish administration in Syria, the
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria , requests help from the
World Health Organization to contain a
cholera outbreak which has killed three people in the region.
[16]
22 September – At least 71 people are killed when a
boat carrying migrants from
Lebanon
capsizes off Syria's coast.
[17]
26 September – The death toll from the
cholera outbreak in Syria increases to 29, with a total of 338 cases reported, the majority of whom are in
Aleppo Governorate .
[18]
5 December – Protests occur in the town of
Atarib ,
Aleppo Governorate , after a
Turkish military vehicle ran over and killed a woman and a child while conducting a patrol with a local rebel group, according to the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights .
[19]
Deaths
30 January –
Jawdat Said , 90, Islamic scholar.
[20]
19 February –
Walid Ikhlasi , 86, writer.
[21]
23 February –
Edmund Keeley , 94, Syrian-born American novelist and poet.
11 March –
Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan , 77, politician.
15 May –
Dhu al-Himma Shalish , 71, military officer.
4 July –
Khairy Alzahaby , 76, novelist and historian.
[22]
5 August –
Ali Haydar , 90, military officer.
28 October –
Safwan al-Qudsi , 82, politician,
MP (since 1977).
[23]
10 November –
Humaydi Daham al-Hadi , 86, politician, co-governor of the
Jazira canton (since 2014).
[24]
26 December –
Munira al-Qubaysi , 89, Islamic scholar, founder of
Al-Qubaysiat .
[25]
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"400 ISIS Fighters Missing After Syrian Prison Jailbreak" . 31 January 2022.
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"13 killed in rare NW Syria raid by US special forces" . France 24 . 2022-02-03.
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"Syria supports Putin's recognition of Ukraine breakaway regions" . Reuters . Retrieved 2023-02-02 .
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"Syria Shopping Mall Fire" . March 1, 2022.
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