Last week saw the lowest level of violence in Syria in 15 years, while the month of March closed out as the least violent month in Syria in 15 years. As Syria Weekly data has been documenting since August 2025, the level of violence across Syria has been on a downward trend for some time. In fact, deadly violence in Syria declined by 30% between January and August 2025, and then plummeted by 73% in the final third of the year. Notwithstanding a brief period of fighting in Syria’s northeast in January 2026, the months of February and March 2026 have set consecutive record lows in violence, with March seeing a total of 23 people killed in direct acts of violence. That is 60% lower than the February 2026 record low of 58 deaths and 94% lower than the post-Assad average of 356 deaths per month.
Specifically, last week saw a total of:
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