Timeline of the Syrian Civil War (May–August 2011)
 Thousands of protesters, Hama, Syria, 27 May 2011 on YouTube
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The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from May to August 2011, including the escalation of violence in many Syrian cities.
Protesters throughout Syria remained defiant despite intensifying arrests and attacks in Daraa and Douma.
The Syrian military continued shelling homes in Daraa with tanks. As the military siege on Daraa continued, Assad's security forces allegedly killed 40 civilians elsewhere in the town of Tel Kalakh. By 2 May, 4,000 people crossed the border into Lebanon.
The deadly military siege on Daraa continued. Arrests intensified in Damascus, with large protests anticipated for Friday after prayers.
Since 15 March 2011, according to the BBC, 500 Syrians have been killed and 2,500 others detained. Dozens of tanks were today sent to the Syrian city of Homs as part of the crackdown. Syrian army tanks raided Saqba and other suburbs of Damascus. In Damascus, the government arrested 300 people
The Syrian Army pulled out of Daraa By the end of the day, the army prepared to seize control of Baniyas.
About 100 tanks and troop transports converged on the town of Al-Rastan, after anti-government protesters toppled a statue of the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and pledged to press ahead with their revolution despite sweeping arrests by Bashar al-Assad's government.
On 6 May, after Friday noon prayers, demonstrators rose in cities and towns across Syria to protest the government, especially in the suburbs of Damascus, the smaller cities of Homs, Hama, and Baniyas, and in Syrian Kurdistan. Video and audio of security forces responding, in some cases with lethal force, appeared online within an hour of protests beginning. Eleven members of the Syrian army were allegedly killed by an armed group in Homs in an attack on a military checkpoint. At least three dead and 20 injured were reported in Homs alone, with a total of 16 dead between Homs and Hama, and opposition leaders Mouaz al-Khatib and Riad Seif were detained allegedly by secret police. Tens of thousands reportedly marched in Damascus and its suburbs, and about 7,000 protesters wearing funeral shrouds and carrying olive branches and flowers gathered in Baniyas, vowing to "meet the army peacefully", according to Al Jazeera, whose Arabic-language channel broadcast live from the city for some minutes. Several thousand Syrians participated in a protest march to the vicinity of Deraa, but security forces maintaining a siege of the city refused to let them enter with supplies for its inhabitants.
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