November 2018

The Islamic State group has fiercely defended its last holdout in eastern Syria against a more than two-month military offensive by a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by a US-led coalition. After the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance…

The United Nations voiced alarm Thursday over renewed Russian air raids on Idlib, Syria's last rebel and jihadist stronghold, warning the strikes risk setting of "a gigantic power keg." "We are very worried for recent developments," Jan…

Negotiators from Iran, Russia and Turkey met in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on Wednesday for two days of talks aiming to preserve a fragile 10-week-old truce in northern Syria, the Kazakh foreign ministry said. Talks got under way between…

The number of civilian deaths from more than 30,000 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 has risen to 1,124, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) said in a press release on Thursday. "The Coalition conducted a…

Deir Ezzor Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored more casualties, as a result of the international coalition's airstrikes on the “Islamic State” enclave, which extends from…

U.N. war crimes investigators called on Syria on Wednesday to tell families what happened to their relatives who disappeared and provide the medical records and remains of those who died or were executed in custody. No progress can be made…

Russia has said it was prepared to resume its bombing campaign against an enclave held by an Islamist-led insurgency in Syria as militant groups have not yet withdrawn. Alexander Lavrentyev, Moscow's presidential envoy for Syria,…

The exchange of shelling by the factions and the regime forces continue in new violations of the Russian – Turkish truce areas in the 4 governorates, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the regime forces launching shells…

Daraa Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory learned that anti-Syrian writings written by unknown people on the walls of streets and schools continue to spread to other towns and villages in Daraa…

Despite its decay and attempts to rise, the Organization does not leave the most important aspect of its survival, namely, the executions, which have been used as local, regional, and international messages, and the executions continue by…