February 2016

A U.N. investigative team has zeroed in on five potential cases of serious chemical weapons use in Syria but has yet to identify the perpetrators, according to its first report released Friday. The Joint Investigative Mechanism was…

Implementation is the key to the new deal struck on Syria, with world powers aiming to bring an end to hostilities in a week. As US Secretary of State John Kerry said: "What we need to see in the next few days are actions on the…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is "deluded" if he thinks there is a military solution to the war in Syria, nearly five years into a brutal conflict that has killed more than 260,000 people, a U.S. official said. In an exclusive interview…

Aleppo Province: The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Aleppo were informed that the Sharia Court in Aleppo and its countryside will release about 35 prisoners who have met the "amnesty terms" which was issued a few…

A man from the town of KafrSajneh in the southern countryside of Idlib was killed, the civil sources from the area accused Jabhat Al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Levant) of killing him under torture after arresting him on charges of "his son stole…

Deir Ezzor Province: The activists of the Syrian Observatory for human rights were able to document the execution of a woman and the man who carried out the execution at last Saturday 6th of February 2016 in the eastern countryside of…

Aleppo Province: Clashes are taking place between YPG and factions loyal to them against the rebel and Islamic Factions in the vicinity of KafrAntoan adjacent to al-Alqamiyyeh village near Menagh airbase, amid advancement for YPG and…

Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more casualties in the bombardment which targeted Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta yesterday after the midnight, as a result…

Rif Dimashq Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented more casualties in the bombardment which targeted Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta yesterday after the midnight, as a…

Al-Quneitra Province:       The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights were informed by reliable sources that Horan Courthouse carried out the death sentence on two people in the town of al-Hrak, on charges of "killing a…