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Events in the year2022 inSyria

• President:Bashar al-Assad^[1]
• Vice President:Najah al-Attar
• Prime Minister:Hussein Arnous

For events related to thecivil war, seeTimeline of the Syrian civil war (2022)

• 20–30 January - TheBattle of al-Hasakah, a large-scaleIslamic State (IS) attack andprison riot aimed at freeing arrested IS fighters from al-Sina'a prison inAl-Hasakah, which resulted in a partial strategic victory and major propaganda victory for IS over the Kurdish-led and US-backedSyrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with hundreds of prisoners, including important Emirs, being freed from captivity. The attack was the largest IS attack sinceit 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 leaderAbu Ibrahim al-Qurashi killed himself during a raid byUS special forces on a house inAtme.^[5] According to theSyrian Observatory for Human Rights, thirteen other people, including seven civilians, died during the raid.^[6]
• 22 February –Syria voices support forRussia's recognition of theDonetsk People's Republic and theLuhansk People's Republic as independent states.^[7]
• 1 March – Eleven people die after a fire breaks out in a mall inDamascus.^[8]
• 18–20 June -Clashes took place betweenAhrar al-Sham and theLevant Front, two factions of theTurkish-backedSyrian National Army, across theTurkish-occupied areas of theAleppo Governorate. Ahrar al-Sham was supported byHayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the latter's territories in theIdlib Governorate, while theSham Legion andJaysh al-Islam backed the Levant Front.^[9][10]
• 20 July – TheForeign Ministry of Syria announces that the country is formally suspending diplomatic relations withUkraine.^[11]
• 22 July -Israelattacked government military positions nearDamascus, killing three Syrian government soldiers and wounding seven others.^[12][13]
• 4 September – ASyrian Air Force helicopter crashes inHama,Syria, killing all of the people on board.^[14]
• 7 September – Eleven people are killed and two others are injured by abuilding collapse inAleppo.^[15]
• 10 September – TheKurdish administration in Syria, theAutonomous Administration of North and East Syria, requests help from theWorld Health Organization to contain acholera outbreak which has killed three people in the region.^[16]
• 22 September – At least 71 people are killed when aboat carrying migrants fromLebanoncapsizes off Syria's coast.^[17]
• 26 September – The death toll from thecholera outbreak in Syria increases to 29, with a total of 338 cases reported, the majority of whom are inAleppo Governorate.^[18]
• 5 December – Protests occur in the town ofAtarib,Aleppo Governorate, after aTurkish military vehicle ran over and killed a woman and a child while conducting a patrol with a local rebel group, according to theSyrian Observatory for Human Rights.^[19]

• 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 theJazira canton (since 2014).^[24]
• 26 December –Munira al-Qubaysi, 89, Islamic scholar, founder ofAl-Qubaysiat.^[25]

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