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

02/04/2015

IS militants enter refugee camp in Syrian capital

Islamic State (IS) militants have entered the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, activists and Palestinian officials say, the BBC reports. Clashes erupted between the militants and groups inside the camp, with IS seizing control…

IS storms Palestinian refugee camp in Syria capital

Clashes between armed factions and the Islamic State group raged in the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus after IS seized much of the Palestinian haven Wednesday in a lightening assault. "Fighters from IS launched an assault this…

Islamic State kills 37 in new attack on Syrian village

Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria.…

What we can learn from the dead in Syria

Last week in “The numbers game: Counting the dead in Syria” Al Bawaba investigated who is counting Syria’s dead and what methods they are using to address major discrepancies in reported death tolls. Syria is now in its fifth year of a…

Denmark donates 250 million kroner to Syria

At an international donor conference for Syria held in Kuwait this week, Denmark has committed another 250 million Danish kroner for 2015 to the victims of the war-torn country. This brings Denmark’s total aid to Syria to more than 1…

Lebanon charges 12 with abducting Syrian army defectors

The Daily Star   BEIRUT: Lebanon’s military court charged 12 people including a Lebanese soldier with kidnapping defected members of the Syrian army and handing them over to the Syrian government, a judicial source said. The…

Jordan shuts border crossing with Syria after fighting

(Reuters) - Jordan said it had temporarily closed its border crossing with Syria on Wednesday because of violence on the other side of the frontier, a move it described as a precautionary measure. The monitoring group Syrian Observatory…

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