المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
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December 2018

UN Syria Envoy: Work Ongoing for Constitutional Committee

  The U.N. Special envoy for Syria said Monday work is still ongoing to form a committee meant to draft a new constitution before the end of the year, adding that hurdles remain in place. Staffan de Mistura made his comments in Jordan…

Syria reports then later denies airstrikes near

Syrian official media denied the reports of airstrikes near Damascus International Airport on Sunday evening, December 9, 2018, after it had initially reported that Syrian defenses had intercepted “enemy arial targets” in the vicinity of…

Israel Faces More Formidable Hezbollah Dug in From Lebanon

The bulldozers growling as soldiers sealed a tunnel that crossed beneath Lebanon’s border into Israel provided the kind of prop Benjamin Netanyahu loves. The Israeli prime minister told diplomats who’d braved fierce rains that Iran’s…

‘US, France looting artifacts in northern Syria’

A senior Syrian official says the US and France are carrying out illegal excavations in ancient sites in northern Syria with the help of Kurdish militants. Much of the digging work is conducted on the Um al-Sarj mountain near Manbij, head…

Iraqi jets hit two targets, 44 ISIS militants in Syria

Iraq’s air force struck two ISIS targets across the border in Syria on Tuesday, hitting a total of 44 militants, it announced in a statement. “Our jets hit two targets, one of them being a hideout of 30 ISIS militants preparing to hold an…

Prominent Syrian activist killed in rebel-held province

Masked gunmen in ’s rebel-held northwestern province shot and killed on Friday a prominent anti-government journalist who was also a sharp critic of Islamist militants. ‘ U.S.-funded Radio Fresh station provided news of the conflict to ’s…

UN Syria envoy: Work ongoing for constitutional committee

The U.N. Special envoy for Syria said Monday work is still ongoing to form a committee meant to draft a new constitution before the end of the year, adding that hurdles remain in place. Staffan de Mistura made his comments in Jordan after…

Offensive in Syria targets Islamic State stronghold

U.S.-backed Syrian fighters pushed deeper into the Islamic State group’s last remaining stronghold on Monday, capturing an abandoned hospital. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces entered the eastern town of Hajin last week and intense…

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