March 2015

Rif Dimashq Province: Violent clashes are taking place between the regime forces, backed by NDF and Hezbollah, against the Nusra Front, rebel and Islamic battalions in the barren rocky mountain of Fleta in al- Qalamoun area. Other clashes…

Homs Province: The regime forces opened fire from their heavy machine- guns on areas in the neighborhood of al- Wa’er in the city of Homs. They also shelled places in al- Holi area in the north of Homs.   Clashes erupted between the…

  Idlib Province: Violent clashes have broken out between the Nusra Front, Jund al- Aqsa, Ahrar al- Sham Movement and other Islamic factions against the regime forces and allied militiamen due to counter- attack launched by the regime…

Aleppo Province: SOHR activists in Aleppo knew that some Islamic factions and movements demonstrated in the city of Aleppo shunted “Aleppo wants Islamic caliphate”, where gunmen and some horses marched in this demonstration raising a black…

BY ERIN ZALESKI Since the brutal civil war in Syria began in 2011, more than three million people have fled the conflict. The majority of those who have sought refuge in neighboring Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey — four in…

The Swedish author of ‘The Swimmer’ spent almost a year in Syria as a teenager. Part of him never left   By JOAKIM ZANDER   I WAS 15 IN 1990 when my father left his civilian job to take a position as a military…

Dar'a province: Helicopters dropped explosive barrels on Dar'a al-Balad, Inkhel, Shekh Meskin and al-Harra in addition to 6  explosive barrels on areas in Kafar Shams.  Homs province: An officer in regime forces killed by clashes against…

Reef Dimashq province: Clashes took place between regime forces and rebels around Der Kheba town. 4 rebels killed during clashes against regime forces around al-Zabdani. 6 civilians killed by aerial bombardment on Harasta, while many others…

The number of asylum-seeker claims in industrialized countries is at a 22-year high, AFP has reported. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said that the number was up by nearly half on the previous year, with a 45 percent increase from…

Syria has destroyed three of its 12 chemical weapons production sites but is unable to dismantle three other facilities because of security conditions, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Wednesday in…