February 2018

Tens of thousands of Syrians are expected to return to the Kurdish region of Afrin after Turkey finishes its military offensive against the YPG militia and secures the area, Turkish officials said on Thursday. Turkey - together with the…

This important issue of Forced Migration Review draws our attention to the current challenges facing displaced Syrians and the continuing search for solutions. The statistics of Syrian displacement are staggering – and the numbers continue…

The U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, pleaded for a truce to halt one of the fiercest air assaults of the seven-year civil war and prevent a “massacre” in the besieged eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of Damascus. At least…

Syrian government forces are reported to have carried out a wave of air and artillery strikes on the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region for a fifth day running. Forty-six more people died, bringing the number killed since Sunday to…

Syrian opposition activists and paramedics are reporting a fresh wave of bombardment of the rebel-held eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus, saying 13 people have been killed. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and…

"The rocket fire hasn't stopped this morning. Around 200 ground-to-ground rockets struck Douma alone," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the UK-based group The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitoring group said 33 civilians had…

A third convoy of pro-Syrian government fighters arrived in the Kurdish canton of Afrin, where Turkey is now in control of 15 percent of the territory, according to the conflict monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The first group…

Syrian government forces entered a part of Aleppo held by Kurdish fighters, a witness and a monitor said on Thursday, reports the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia denied. The YPG has controlled an enclave in the northern districts of Aleppo for…

A sound of a violent explosion was heard in Jermana district in Rif Dimashq resulted from the fall of a shell on an area there, causing material damage, and several shells fell on areas in Assad district and Al-Wafadeen camp near Douma city…

Daraa province – the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:: a dead body of unknown man was found on the outskirts of the town of Tafs near Ma'sara Al-Shamari, that was turned out to be a former ISIS fighter, coming from Da'el town and he was…