The regime's massacres against the Syrian people began on June 3, 2011 with the "Friday massacre", and several massacres followed throughout the years of the revolution and war, documented by several human rights organizations and media outlets, and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, with an average of 83 people per day, including 17 children. This statistic does not include those who died in prisons.

Massacres, clashes and ambushes with "multiple weapons" accounted for the highest percentage of causes of killing, at a rate of 35.1%, followed by heavy weapons at a rate of 23.3%, according to the UN Human Rights Council's 2021 report.

According to human rights reports, the Syrian regime was the largest cause of the number of victims since the outbreak of the revolution in March 2011, as the massacres of the regime and its militias did not stop, in which bombing was used with helicopters, missiles, launchers and barrel bombs, and it also faced accusations of using chemical weapons, not to mention direct targeting with live bullets. Snipers and Shabiha.

The massacre of the children of Hama

The "Friday Children of Hama" massacre took place on June 3, 2011, during demonstrations that claimed the lives of more than 70 civilians, after they demanded the overthrow of the regime. It was the first massacre that took place with the start of the Syrian revolution, after the army attacked the demonstrators with live bullets to disperse them in Al-Asi Square in the city of Hama.

Hama Square massacre (Siege of Hama)

The Syrian regime attacked with tanks, armored vehicles, and snipers between July 13 and August 4, 2011, demonstrators in Al-Asi Square after they held a sit-in against killing and arrest after the "Friday of Children" massacre, and this operation left more than 200 people dead.

Zawiya Mountain massacre

In the hills of the city of Idlib, between December 19 and 20, 2011, 200 people were killed, including 70 defected soldiers from the Syrian regular army, after they tried to flee from their military positions on the Syrian-Turkish border.

A massacre in Homs

In February 2012, more than 230 civilians - mostly children and women - were killed in one night in the bombing of the regime's army on the city of Homs (center of the country).

Baba Amr massacre

In February 2012, it was the first massacre in which the regime relied on bombing with rocket launchers, and the first areas that witnessed the displacement of its residents, in which more than 4 thousand people were killed and entire families were exterminated, after a month-long siege of the town of Baba Amr in Homs, where it was besieged by snipers and tanks. It was heavily bombed by drones for two days before the storming.

The regime targeted the Baba Amr Media Center for 5 hours continuously, and did not stop until it confirmed that the journalists present there had been killed. The American journalist Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remy Ochlik were killed in the operation.

Houla massacre

On May 25, 2012, the Syrian regime forces carried out a 10-hour siege and intensive bombardment of the Taldo area in Homs. During this operation, they killed 109 civilians, including 49 children and 32 women, and used white and fire weapons, with the help of groups of shabiha affiliated with the regime.

Al-Qubeir massacre

On June 6, 2012, the Syrian regime forces - with the help of its militias - surrounded the village of Al-Qubeir from 3 sides, bombed the city and killed 100 civilians, including 20 children under two years of age, in addition to 20 women.

Tremseh massacre

On July 12, 2012 in the village of Tremseh in the countryside of Hama, more than 200 people were stabbed with daggers by Shabiha forces and militias loyal to the regime

, and

some of them were burned alive, and about 50 houses were burned, except for the bombing of the village with missiles and missiles from Russian tanks and planes. made.

Darayya massacre

Between August 20-25, 2012, in the Darayya area in the Damascus countryside, the Syrian regime killed between 500 and 700 civilians with heavy weapons, such as tank shells, mortars, and helicopter missiles.

Only 524 of the dead were identified because the bodies were subjected to many deformities.

Scorpion massacre

Eyewitnesses who emerged unharmed from this massacre accused the Syrian regime forces and their loyal militias of committing atrocities against civilians on December 11, 2012.

Some testimonies say that shabiha from the town’s people detained 500 women and girls that day, and took them as human shields, and when members of the Free Syrian Army tried to liberate them, the confrontation ended with the killing of more than 130 hostages, and according to some residents of the eyewitnesses, the regime is the one who armed the shabiha and charged them sectarianly to attack the townspeople.

The bakery massacre

On December 23, 2012, warplanes targeted with cluster missiles a field hospital and a gathering in front of a bakery, after bread was cut off from the area for days in the city of Talbiseh, Homs governorate. The targeting killed more than 100 civilians.

University massacre

On January 15, 2013, a regime warplane targeted the roundabout of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Aleppo (Al-Thawra University) with two missiles, killing at least 87 people, in the first clear targeting of an educational institution, and that day coincided with the first semester exams, knowing that this university It witnessed peaceful anti-regime demonstrations in 2011 with the start of the revolution.

The "Black Tuesday" massacre

On January 15, 2013, the regime forces stormed the village of Al-Haswiya in the countryside of Homs, on the morning of the massacre, with the support of militias loyal to the regime, and committed acts of killing by shooting and slaughtering with machetes.

Most of the men in the village were executed, and 108 civilians were killed, including 25 children and 17 women.

"Queiq River" massacre

On January 29, 2013, residents of the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood woke up at seven in the morning to find 230 bodies of detainees in the security branches lying on both sides of the Queiq River in Aleppo.

The Jdeidet al-Fadl massacre

483 people - including women and children - were killed by the Republican Guard forces, in conjunction with the shabiha, in the "Jdeidet al-Fadl" area, inhabited by displaced people from the occupied Syrian Golan, and it continued for 4 days in April 2013, according to the Local Coordination Committees.

Sanamain massacre

In April 2013, 110 residents of the tribal neighborhood of Al-Sanamayn in Daraa Governorate were killed after large forces of the regime's security and army stormed the area, and most of the victims were children, women and the elderly.

Solidarity massacre

The massacre of the Tadamon neighborhood in Damascus was not discovered until April 2022, that is, about 9 years after it occurred (April 16, 2013), in an investigation published by the British newspaper The Guardian, and video clips obtained by the newspaper show that an armed group affiliated with the regime forces The Syrian regime executed 41 civilians, including 7 women and a number of children.

Regime forces would ask civilians to run towards a ditch with their hands tied behind their backs and their eyes closed, before shooting them and setting their bodies on fire.

The "Bayda" massacre in Banias

At the beginning of May 2013, the Syrian regime army killed about 248 people by shooting, burning, and slaughtering them, after gathering them in separate groups that included women and children, after which they burned the houses and looted the property of the villagers.

The massacre of the village of Rasm al-Nafl

This massacre was discovered a month after it was committed (it took place in June 2013) by the Syrian regime and its loyal militias, in which 208 people were massacred and burned in the village of "Rasm al-Nafl" in the countryside of Aleppo, including infants who were slaughtered with knives in front of their mothers, although the villagers did not They go out in demonstrations before.

Ghouta massacre

On August 21, 2013, the Syrian regime army fired 16 surface-to-surface missiles loaded with the chemical "sarin gas" on the towns of Zamalka, Ain Tarma, Kafr Batna, and Arbin in Ghouta, killing more than 1,500 civilians, after they gave them safety to get out of the imposed siege. They must cross the "Ali al-Wahsh" checkpoint, only to be surprised by the mass executions awaiting them at the crossing.

Ali monster massacre

In early 2014, on the road connecting the towns of Yalda and Hujaira (south of Damascus), between 1,200 and 1,500 Syrians and Palestinians were killed and missing at the hands of the Syrian regime forces and militias loyal to it, after safety was given to besieged families south of Damascus by crossing through checkpoints, and then they were killed.

The massacre of barrels in Aleppo

In February 2014 and May 2015, the Syrian regime army dropped 130 barrel bombs on the city of Aleppo and neighboring towns, killing more than 470 civilians, and evacuating more than 10,000 people at the time.

In 2015, the northern region of Aleppo governorate was bombed with barrel bombs, and most of the victims fell in the city of Al-Bab in Al-Hal market, where 71 civilians were killed.

Khan Sheikhoun massacre

In April 2017, the regime targeted the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rural Idlib with chemical weapons, killing more than 100 civilians, most of them children.

In August 2019, the regime forces, with the help of Russia, announced the control of the area that was under the control of the opposition.

The chemical massacre in Douma

On April 7, 2018, during the forced evacuation from Eastern Ghouta in the Damascus countryside, which has been besieged for 5 years, the regime attacked civilians with chemical weapons, killing more than 78 people, some of whom suffocated from the chemicals that entered the shelters where the residents were sheltering. .