May 2016

Britain, France, the United States and Ukraine on Tuesday blocked a Russian request to add two Syrian rebel groups to a UN terror blacklist and sideline them from the Syrian peace process, diplomats said. Russia had requested that Jaish…

International refugee law is in crisis. James Hathaway, a professor of refugee law, wrote those words nearly 20 years ago, but they could just as easily have been written today. It’s tempting to think that Europe’s abysmal response…

A Syrian national extradited to the US made an initial court appearance Tuesday on charges he helped hack and extort American targets perceived to be enemies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Peter Romar, 36, was extradited from…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that YPG are still negotiating the “Islamic State” in order to uncover the fate of 2 (or 3) Russian soldiers who were gone missing in Syria during Palmyra clashes in the eastern countryside of…

The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights were informed by reliable sources that a citizen woman from the town of al-Bo-Amr in the countryside of Deir Ezzor was killed while a young man, 2 citizen women and a child from the…

Deir Ezzor Province: warplanes carried out three raids on a medical point area and other areas in al-ShHil town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which killed 7 people at least, and injured at least 11 other people and caused…

Tens of citizens came out in a demonstration in the city of Azaz north of Aleppo province, in a protest and stance against The Syrian Democratic Forces, calling them to hand over tens of bodies of factions’ fighters who died in the clashes…

Aleppo Province: several rocket shells fell on regime forces' controlled areas in the Seif al-Dawla neighborhood of Aleppo, it is unknown who launched them, the shells killed three persons including a citizen woman and injured more than…

The activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights were informed that the Turkish border guards shot a man and a citizen woman from Al-Raqqah province  while they were trying to cross the Syrian - Turkish border from Afrin area which…

al-Raqqa province: Warplanes bombarded areas of al-Raqqa city, no reports of losses. Areas of the northern countryside were also exposed to aerial bombardment. 1 man was killed while others were wounded by an explosion around Raqqa city…