June 2014
General elections take place in government-held areas. For the first time since the Assad family took power, more than one candidate is allowed, but opposition groups and the international community describe them as a sham.
IS announces a self-declared caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at its head in the territory it controls between Aleppo and eastern Iraq .
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission says that it has completed removal of chemical weapons in Syria and that all production equipment and munitions have also been destroyed.