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Syria

News coverage about Syria accounts for 0.687% of all coverage GDELT monitors worldwide as of August 20, 2026. Output is steady week-over-week (-1.2%). The average tone of this coverage is -3.27 — negative.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share
0.687%
of monitored articles
Week over week
-1.2%
7-day mean vs prior
Average tone
-3.27
negative
Refresh tier
Priority
~2-3h cadence

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Syria coverage volume: 91 days, latest 0.69% on 2026-08-200.001.02.0May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Syria coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -3.27 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Event activity (CAMEO-coded)

Protests (1/day latest)

Protest events located in Syria: 60 days, latest 1.00 on 2026-08-200.0025.050.0May 26Jun 11Jun 26Jul 7Jul 20Aug 10Aug 20

Diplomacy (33/day latest)

Diplomatic events located in Syria: 87 days, latest 33.00 on 2026-08-200.0010002000May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

Coercion & force (28/day latest)

Coercive events located in Syria: 87 days, latest 28.00 on 2026-08-200.00250500May 26Jun 10Jun 25Jul 10Jul 25Aug 9Aug 20

CAMEO-coded events geolocated to Syria, counted daily from GDELT's event stream (protests: root 14; diplomacy: 04–05; coercion through mass violence: 17–20).

Coverage origin: local vs international

Over the last two weeks, 11% of the coverage about Syria came from outlets based in Syria — the rest was written from abroad (18,315 articles with a known outlet home country).

Daily share of coverage about Syria from domestic outlets (%): 49 days, latest 9.33 on 2026-08-200.0010.020.0Jul 3Jul 12Jul 21Jul 30Aug 8Aug 17Aug 20

Share of articles about Syria produced by domestic outlets, computed daily across GDELT's English and translated streams. Outlet home countries are mapped per news domain (GDELT source-country data); articles from unmapped outlets are excluded from the denominator. A very low share during major events can mean the story is being told about a place rather than from it.

Most-mentioned places

  • Damascus (32)
  • Idlib (22)
  • Aleppo (21)
  • Berea (7)
  • Deir Ezzor (3)
  • Abu Az Zuhur (2)
  • Quneitra (1)
  • Bab As Saghir (1)

Places named in coverage about Syria on 2026-08-20 (GDELT location extraction; article counts).

Active topics in coverage about Syria

Country indicators

GDP (current US$)
$23.7B
World Bank, 2022
Population
25.6M
World Bank, 2025
Trade (% of GDP)
35.4%
World Bank, 2022
Military expenditure (% of GDP)
4.1%
World Bank, 2010

Armed conflict, trailing 12 months

Conflict fatalities
589
best estimate
Civilian deaths
338
within the above
Recorded events
372
organized violence

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP GED), window 2025-08-01..2026-07-31, refreshed monthly. Recent months are preliminary candidate data.

Displacement, end of 2025

Internally displaced
5,542,227
within the country
Refugees abroad
4,865,764
originating from Syria
Refugees hosted
9,885
from other countries
Asylum seekers
4,144
pending claims, hosted

Source: UNHCR Refugee Data Finder, year-end 2025 stocks, plus 160,000 stateless persons. IDP figures cover conflict-displaced populations reported to UNHCR.

Monitored relationships

Each link opens the bilateral co-coverage dashboard for the pair.

Coverage share measures articles published by Syria-based outlets as a share of all GDELT-monitored coverage — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).