July 2015

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described the years-long bloodshed in Syria as a “shameful symbol” of global failure and divisions. On Wednesday, Ban told the UN Security Council (UNSC) that he was “profoundly…

The Lebanese army announced on Thursday the arrest of Lebanese citizens and foreigners suspected of belonging to armed groups and terrorist organizations. Lebanese Abdullah Mahmoud Massoud and his brother Azzam, in addition to Ali Ahmed…

Al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front has abducted the leader of a US-backed Syrian rebel group in the north of the country, opposition sources and a monitor group told AFP, dealing a blow to Washington’s struggling train-and-equip program to…

Thirty Turkish war planes on Thursday carried out a new wave of bombings against targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, the NTV and CNN-Turk channels reported. The F-16 planes struck five locations in northern…

The leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition accused President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday of launching air strikes in Syria and Iraq to prevent Kurdish territorial and political gains, and of using the war against Islamic State of Iraq and…

It seems that no one, including perhaps the government in Ankara, is entirely clear on what Turkey’s endgame in Syria is. Recent reports that the United States and Turkey had agreed to establish a “safe zone” along the Turkish border were…

Aleppo Province: Information reported to SOHR that a 17-years old boy killed by regime snipers shot in the neighborhood of al- Iza’ah in the city of Aleppo. SOHR knew that citizens, most of them owners of stores,…

Reliable sources informed SOHR that IS executed 3 people in the city of al- Bokamal in the east of Deir Ezzor, where IS beheaded a woman for “sorcery” by sword, while the executed 2 young men for “insulting God”, the two young men executed…

Aleppo Province: Several shells launched by Islamic factions landed on areas in al-Midan neighborhood and its vicinity in Aleppo city, no information about casualties yet, also the regime forces dropped a drone launched by members of the…

Idlib Province: The warplanes carried out raids on areas in the in the vicinity of Abu al-Dohor airbase besieged by the rebel and Islamic factions and Jabhat Al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Levant) for more than 2 years also the warplanes carried…