المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
Monthly Archives

February 2015

Islamic State militants seize Syrian Christians

ISLAMIC State militants attacked and seized a string of Assyrian Christian villages in northeast Syria, kidnapping dozens of men, women and children, according to human-rights groups and local residents. The group raised its black…

Christians Taken in Syria by IS

Islamic State militants abduct at least 70 Christian villagers in northeastern Syria. BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants have abducted at least 70 Christians, including women and children, after overrunning a string of…

slamic State (IS) has abducted dozens of Assyrian Christians from villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 90 men, women and children were seized in a series of dawn…

At least 5 IS militants killed in Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor Province: The regime forces shelled areas in the villages of Mrat in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.   At least 5 IS militants, including 2 Syrians, died in clashes with the regime forces in the vicinity of Deir…

New Zealand to join anti-ISIS mission

New Zealand will send troops to Iraq on a non-combat mission helping to boost the local military’s capacity to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse.…

French lawmakers in first Damascus visit for three years

A cross-party group of French lawmakers held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus on Tuesday, the first such contacts in the Syrian capital since the closure of France’s embassy there in 2012. However, the French Foreign Ministry made…

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