March 2018

A conversation with Rania Abouzeid, author of “No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018) Much of war is crime, a series of depredations and abuses — some calculated, others opportunistic,…

The fate of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, one of the great butchers of the modern era, is no longer in any doubt. Seven years after Barack Obama demanded that Assad resign, six years after he declared Assad's use of chemical weapons would be…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces and their allies are mobilizing their forces in the vicinity of Douma area, which is controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and the last enclave of its fighters in the Eastern…

A number of reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that there is no truth about the entry of the Turkish forces to Tal Rifaat, located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where the advancement of the…

Aleppo Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions rocked the southern countryside of Aleppo, caused by the fall of several shells fired by the regime forces on areas in Tal Bajir village in the southern countryside of…

Homs Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Om Sharshuh town in the northern countryside of Homs, was shelled by the regime forces, where the regime forces fired several shells on the town, which caused material damage, also…

Al-Raqqah Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: a dead body of a person in a military uniform was found in the western countryside of Al-Raqqah, he is believed to be an intelligence agent of the Syria Democratic Forces, where…

The evacuations are part of a deal between Russia and the Faylaq al-Rahman rebel group. The Syrian government now controls a vast majority of the besieged enclave outside the capital, Damascus. A convoy comprising 100 buses…

The last rebel group fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta said on Monday it was still trying to negotiate an end to the army's assault, dismissing a Russian report that it was ready to leave the stronghold near Damascus. All other insurgent…

Thousands of people departed eastern Ghouta for Syrian rebel territory near the Turkish border on Tuesday, the third group to leave under a deal brokered by Russia to surrender the enclave near Damascus to the Syrian government. Some 7,000…