May 2018

The US will leave areas dominated by Islamist factions and focus recovery efforts on areas where US-led forces have retaken territory from Islamic State in the northeast. Tens of millions of dollars will be cut from previous…

The Trump administration has withdrawn all assistance from Northwest Syria, according to administration officials. This is the newest demonstration of the administration's intent to briskly exit the country once ISIS is fully defeated.…

The next Syrian disaster Syria is on the cusp of another major humanitarian crisis, the United Nations warns, as government forces take aim at the final rebel stronghold of Idlib province. "We were and are concerned on the humanitarian…

Turkey has maintained an open-door policy since the start of the Syrian conflict and now hosts 3.6 million refugees. Representatives of international humanitarian organisations underlined the need for a greater sharing of the…

Europe faces a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis that saw a vast "exodus" from Syria unless the international community honours financial commitments made to millions of refugees, the United Nations’ top refugee official in the Middle East…

With the Syrian conflict now in its eighth year, it is easy to lose sight of the colossal human tragedy unfolding there. Reports of scores of civilian deaths in Eastern Ghouta, where tens of thousands of desperate people were trapped for…

Damascus province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Warplanes carried out more airstrikes on areas controlled by the “Islamic State” organization in the southern part of the capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Hama province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: places in al-Lataminah area in the northern countryside of Hama, witnessed intense artillery shelling by the regime forces, where they targeted areas in the town and its surroundings…

Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an explosion was heard in Khan Shaykhun area in the southern countryside of Idlib, caused by assassinating by unidentified gunmen for a member of Jaysh al-Izza forces; which operates…

"After the military success (of the Syrian army in recent months) supplementary conditions have been created which favour the start of a political process on a major scale," Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin following the…