March 2018

An air strike has reportedly killed 15 children and two women sheltering in an underground school in Syria's besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region. Rescuers said civilians had been hiding in the school to escape government and…

Rockets fired on a market in a government-controlled neighborhood of Damascus on Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the…

A war monitor said Russian warplanes hit a school basement in eastern Ghouta, killing at least 15 children. In New York, the UN human rights chief was blocked from addressing the Security Council on the carnage in Syria. The…

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein condemned on Monday the Syrian regime’s “pervasive war crimes” in Eastern Ghouta as 15 children were killed in the latest air strikes on the besieged enclave. He told an…

UN human rights chief says the Syrian regime's five-year siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta included the use of chemical weapons and starvation. UNHCR says almost 50,000 have fled the enclave in recent days. At least…

From their leadership in securing the recent peace accord in Colombia to their contributions to the 1998 agreement ending 20-plus years of conflict in Northern Ireland, to Liberia and to the Philippines, women have largely been the…

Why are voices on the left still justifying the Syrian regime's indiscriminate bombardment of Eastern Ghouta? Syrian and Russian soldiers stand at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in…

To fly from Nicosia to the Syrian capital of Damascus takes only about half an hour. From Berlin or Paris it's about four hours. The Syrian war is thus right at Europe's very doorstep. Yet, the European Union's strategy towards Syria…

Displacements synchronize, tragedies coincide, and pain continues, in two areas where advancement, killing, displacement and destruction by the Russians and the Turks are corresponding, between Afrin and the Eastern Ghouta, there is a long…

Idlib Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: violent explosions rocked areas in the south-western countryside of Maarrat Al-Nu'man city, in the southern sector of Idlib countryside, caused by raids carried out by warplanes…