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Syria Weekly: June 10-17, 2025

1 week ago | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

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Weekly Data Update (June 3-10, 2025)

2 weeks ago | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

Dear reader – given the clearly persistent trend of vigilante justice in recent months, Syria Weekly has added a new dataset (based on all preceding Syria Weekly reporting) covering all vigilante justice and targeted killings of former Assad regime operatives and associated family members and communities.
Weekly Data Update (March 25-April 1, 2025)

2 months ago | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

While the overall level of deadly violence across Syria remained almost exactly the same as the week prior — with 88 deaths recorded this week, and 87 the week before — the proportion of deaths caused by unexploded ordinance declined significantly, from 30% last week to 19% this week. In other words, the frequency and deadliness of armed and military attacks and actions rose notably over the past seven days, particularly in the form of targeted killings, as well as kidnaps and executions.
FREE: Syria Weekly: March 25-April 1, 2025

2 months ago | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

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Weekly Data Update (March 25-April 1, 2025)

2 months ago | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

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Assessing Syria's Transitional Government

Mar 30, 2025 | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

Syria’s transitional government was announced late on March 29, in an inauguration ceremony at the People’s Palace in Damascus. The 23-member cabinet contains 9 ‘independent’ ministers, 7 former members of the Salvation Government and 5 people who previously held senior government positions under Bashar al-Assad, pre-2011.
Weekly Data Update (March 18-25, 2025)

Mar 26, 2025 | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

The level of violence in Syria returned to the average seen prior to the March 7 surge in killings on the coast — with 87 violent deaths reported across the country over the seven-day reporting period (March 18-25). Thirty percent of those deaths were caused by unexploded ordinance (UXO), which remains a persistent and very significant threat to civilian life in at least eight of Syria’s 14 governorates.
Syria Weekly: March 11-18, 2025

Mar 25, 2025 | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

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Weekly Data Update (March 11-18, 2025)

Mar 20, 2025 | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

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Weekly Data Update (March 11-18, 2025)

Mar 20, 2025 | syriaweekly.com | Charles Lister

Dear readers — as Syria Weekly continues to adapt to the new realities and dynamics post-Assad, you will find some additional data areas this week: (1) overall violent deaths across Syria; and (2) Israeli military actions. This is in addition to (3) violent deaths by governorate; (4-5) regime loyalist attacks & deaths, by governorate; (6) ISIS attacks, (7) kidnappings by governorate; (8-9) UXO incidents and deaths by governorate.