Syria Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Syria - Conflict Events provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Syria, produced by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries, reflecting conflict trends through March 2026. It serves as a high-level monitoring tool for tracking the intensity and nature of unrest within the country.

Use Cases

• Trend analysis of political violence over time using country-month aggregations
• Assessing the frequency of civilian-targeting events relative to total conflict activity
• Correlating demonstration event counts with macro-political shifts in Syria

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a primary authority in global conflict monitoring
• Weekly update frequency provides near real-time trend monitoring
• Categorizes events into distinct types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular geospatial mapping of specific incidents
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration on the ACLED website

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary event-level monitoring and reporting systems

Time Range

Ending March 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Syria