February 2018

The fall of the eastern rebel-held side of Aleppo at the end of 2016 marked a turning point in Syria’s civil war, shifting the tide of the conflict in President Bashar al-Assad’s favour. With Isis’s caliphate dismantled after the battle…

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militant group has been ousted from northwestern Syria's Idlib province after a final group of militants surrendered to hardline rebels on Tuesday (Feb 13), a spokesman and monitor said. About 400 people…

Shells hit the center of a Syrian Kurdish enclave on Tuesday where Turkey is carrying out an offensive, landing near the area’s only hospital and killing one person, the hospital manager and a monitoring group said. The shelling near Afrin…

Turkish-led bombardment left at least one person dead and several others wounded near the main hospital in the Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday, a monitor and military force said. The border areas in Syria's northwest region of Afrin have…

President Bashar al-Assad’s army pummeled rebel-held Eastern Ghouta with airstrikes for five consecutive days last week, killing over 200 civilians. The death toll marks one of the deadliest weeks in Syria’s seven-year war. The…

More casualties raise the number of the civilian casualties who were killed during about 3 weeks of aerial and artillery shelling on Afrin to about 80 persons The numbers of the civilian casualties are increasing in Afrin area…

Rif Dimashq Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the regime forces returned to interrupt the silence which lasted from the midnight of Monday - Tuesday, where the regime forces targeted Douma city by more than 20 shells,…

Idlib Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a body of a man was found killed and dumped at the outskirts of Al-Tah town in the southern countryside of Idlib, and no information about the reasons and the circumstances of their…

Aleppo Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Islamic factions opened fire of their snipers on areas in the vicinity of al-Rasul al-A’azam Mosque and the Oil School in Jam’eyyat Al-Zahraa neighborhood west of Aleppo, which…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from a number of intersected sources, that hundreds of members of the "Islamic State" organization with injuries accompanied them, surrendered to the factions operating in Idlib,…