April 2015

The United States will provide $6 million to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees to assist with the humanitarian crisis in the Yarmouk camp in Syria, according to the US Department of State.   WASHINGTON (Sputnik) —…

WASHINGTON/REYHANLI, TURKEY – Hundreds of Syrian rebels will soon start U.S. training to battle the Islamic State group without knowing whether or how Washington would come to their aid on the battlefield. The U.S. plan to train and arm…

BEIRUT – On a recent night in a dimly lit basement of a theater here, the Syrian rock band Pressure Cooker opened for screaming fans, many of whom had been waiting over an hour to watch them play. The rock band, whose name in Arabic is…

WASHINGTON — A former Syrian intelligence chief in Lebanon, Rustom Ghazaleh, asked to go on an anti-Syrian regime TV station just before what turned out to be a fatal beating in Syria, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said April…

Geneva – On Monday, the United Nations spokesman Ahmad Fawzi said that Iran has been invited to Syrian peace talks in Geneva in May along with the country’s government, opposition groups, and other regional powers.  In May, the…

Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic battalions were able to capture more than 100 persons in Jesr al-Shughour and Eshtabraq village since it took control on Jesr al-Shughour in the 25th of April, the detainees include dozens of soldiers in regime…

Clashes continue between Saraia al-Jehad against rebel and Islamic battalions backed by Jabhat al-Nusra in al-Qahtania in Quneitra countryside near the Jolan, amid mutual bombardment from both sides, what killed 12 militants in Jabhat…

Reliable sources reported to SOHR that the western countryside of Dar'a is witnessing a state of tension, Broj al-Islam battalion applied several checkpoints in Sahm al-Jolan town after its commander was detained by al-Yarmouk martyrs…

Daraa Province: The helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the towns of Bosra al- Harir, Bosra al- Sham, Nahetah and al- Yadodah as well as on the villages of Ayb, al- Malzomah and al- Msikah. The warplanes carried out 2 raids near Tal al-…

Hama Province: 3 civilians, including a child and a woman, died due to shooting them in the area located between the two towns of al- Ziyarah and al- Msheik in Sahel al- Ghab, the activists accused the regime forces of killing them.…