February 2018

Around 350,000 people who have taken refuge in Turkey will return to their homes in Syria’s Afrin region after the end of the operation, the Turkish prime minister said on Feb. 25. Speaking at Gölcük Naval Shipyard Command in the…

The U.N. agency for children said Sunday that 85 percent of Syrian refugee children in Jordan live in poverty, 38 percent are not in school and almost half of those under the age of five don't have access to proper health care. The…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes struck eastern Ghouta on Saturday evening, minutes after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire in Syria. The jets hit the town of Shifouniyeh in…

Air strikes by the Syrian government on a rebel-held enclave have continued despite a ceasefire resolution passed by the UN Security Council on Friday. Hundreds of people have died in a week of bombardment of the Eastern Ghouta enclave…

Rebel-held enclave near Damascus attacked from multiple fronts, hours after Security Council calls for 30-day truce. Syrian government forces have…

General developments & political & security situation The security situation in the country remains volatile and unpredictable. Hot spots: East Ghouta, Idlib, Aleppo, Afrin and Deir Ez-Zor. Developments in these areas…

Turkey has said it will “remain resolute” in its fight against “terror” groups in Syria while welcoming the UN Security Council’s adoption of a 30-day ceasefire in the country. Russia has stressed that the truce applies to all of Syria, but…

Turkey welcomed on Feb. 25 a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria to allow aid access and medical evacuation, while adding that the cease-fire would not affect the ongoing “Operation Olive Branch”…

The U.N. Security Council on Saturday demanded a 30-day truce across Syria as rescuers in the country’s eastern Ghouta region said bombing had not let up long enough for them to count bodies during one of the bloodiest air assaults of the…

About 7 km separate Turkey from linking their borders each others and completing the control of the border line with Afrin of about 140 km long Aleppo Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Turkish military operation in…