المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
Daily Archives

24/10/2018

Airstrike on IS in eastern Syria inflicts casualties

Syrian state media and a war monitor say an airstrike on a pocket held by the Islamic State group in the country's east has killed several people. State news agency SANA said Wednesday's airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition killed several…

Japanese journalist held in Syria believed to be freed

A Japanese journalist kidnapped in Syria more than three years ago is believed to have been released, the government said on Tuesday. Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old freelancer, was seized in June 2015, and appeared in a rare video released…

Human rights observer: Qatar paid $3 mil. ransom

Qatar paid a ransom for the release of journalist Junpei Yasuda, according to a Britain-based human rights watcher. The Yomiuri Shimbun was told this by Rami Abdel Rahman, chief of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, who said the…

U.S.-led coalition kills over 3,000 civilians since 2014

The U.S.-led coalition has killed as many as 3,222 civilians since its operations started in Syria in 2014, a war monitor reported Tuesday. A total of 768 children and 562 women were among those killed by the strikes of the U.S.-led…

Fresh US-led airstrikes kill several Syrian civilians

Several civilians have lost their lives and sustained injuries when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group carried out a number of aerial attacks in Syria's troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.…

SDF tightens control, advances within Deir ez-Zor’s Sousa

The SDF “tightened” their control over half the town of Sousa that they seized from ISIS militants on Monday and continued to advance further into the Deir ez-Zor town on Tuesday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they…

Syrian army reportedly preparing for Idlib operation

The Syrian army plans to deploy more heavy arms in the demilitarized zone in Northern and Northwestern Syria on Tuesday, October 23 to pave the ground for a large-scale operation against militants in case they insist on remaining in the…

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