June 2018

​Syrian government forces pounded rebel-held areas of the southwest with artillery on Thursday​,​ in a steady escalation by President Bashar al-Assad who has vowed to win back the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan…

King Abdullah II of Jordan started a four-day visit to Washington on Friday where he met with US secretaries of state and defence Mike Pompeo and James Mattis, ahead of a meeting with Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The…

I travel with Muslim Aid’s team along Saida Highway to down town from Beiruts Rafic Hariri Airport, we pass the endless metal working spaces sandwiched into small industrial units in the suburbs and it’s not long until we are reminded of…

Crimea has stepped up grain exports to Syria over the past year in an arrangement that gives the Black Sea peninsula an outlet for its surplus crops and ensures President Bashar al-Assad has a reliable source of wheat. Shipments started…

At least twice this year, the Syrian military fired Iranian-made artillery shells filled with a chlorine-like substance that oozed poison slowly, giving victims just a few minutes to escape. In another attack, Syrian forces dropped a…

Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: al-Bab city in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo Province; is witnessing tension between its people and between the military and security forces controlling the city, and in the…

Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the shelling, targeting, and clashes continue to escalate in the northeastern countryside of Daraa, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on…

Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: al-Lataminah town in the northern countryside of Hama is witnessing continuous shelling by the regime forces, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the fall of more…

Idlib Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: an unidentified warplane targeted after midnight of yesterday an area near Bekserya village in the western countryside of Jisr al-Shughur city, where the sources confirmed that the…

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory monitored clashes in places on the outskirts and vicinity of Hajin town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, between the Syria Democratic the Forces…