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Syria: events and estimated deaths in December 2025

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UCDP recorded 18 events of organized violence in Syria in December 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 42. The low estimate is 42 and the high estimate is 43. UCDP counts 17 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for November 2025 was 5 events.

The count for December 2024 was 141 events. The change from December 2024 to December 2025 is down 87 percent. Among the 26 months with a report for Syria, December 2025 has the 21st highest count of events. Syria holds 1 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in all countries with a page in December 2025. In December 2024, the share was 7 percent.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Regions

The table has 10 regions at most.

Table 1. Syria, December 2025: events and estimated deaths by region, in name order
RegionEventsEstimated deaths
Al Hasakah governorate23
Aleppo governorate26
Ar Raqqah governorate26
Deir ez Zor governorate79
Homs governorate313
Idlib governorate25
Figure 1. Events in Syria, December 2025. The map shows 18 events with 42 estimated deaths. One dot is one event at the place that UCDP gives. When a source names no exact place, UCDP puts the event at the centre of a region or of the country. The area of a dot follows the best estimate of deaths. The largest dot is for 330 deaths or more.1 death10 deaths100 deathsOutlines: Natural Earth, with the first-level areas of the UCDP data. An outline shows where the events are. It is not a statement about a border.

Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Syria has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 2. Syria: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of December 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Syria515
IS1428
Saraya Ansar al-Sunna18
SDF1223

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

Type of violence

Table 3. Syria: events by type of violence, December 2025
Type of violenceEventsShare of events
State-based armed conflict422%
Non-state conflict1056%
One-sided violence against civilians422%

The glossary has the UCDP definition of each type.

All months

Table 4. Monthly reports of Syria, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20268P40PCandidate Events
August 202652P65PCandidate Events
July 202651P71PCandidate Events
June 202649P60PCandidate Events
May 202640P54PCandidate Events
April 202647P59PCandidate Events
March 202642P54PCandidate Events
February 202653P79PCandidate Events
January 202653P122PCandidate Events
December 20251842GED
November 2025510GED
October 2025921GED
September 20252237GED
August 20252441GED
July 202538431GED
June 20252357GED
May 20251833GED
April 20251825GED
March 2025702,244GED
February 202550116GED
January 202577392GED
December 2024141954GED
November 2024113739GED
October 202496207GED
September 202475186GED
August 202476146GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 20 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

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ConflictStats. Syria: events and estimated deaths in December 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/syria/month/2025-12/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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