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

24/01/2019

Syria – Who’s Fighting Who?

In March 2011, an uprising against the president of Syria quickly turned into a full-blown civil war. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an estimate of up to 560,000 died as a result of the conflict since 2011. Millions…

Mass grave found in former IS de-facto capital

A mass grave believed to be containing as many as 1,000 decomposed bodies was found Wednesday in the countryside of the Raqqa province, the former de-facto capital of the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Syria, a war monitor group…

U.S. army says American troopers killed in Syria explosion

A number of U.S. soldiers were killed in a blast on Wednesday while conducting a routine patrol in northern Syria, the U.S. military said, the first U.S. casualties since President Donald Trump announced his plan to pull out of troops from…

No Injuries as 2 Bombings Rock Syria’s Afrin

Two explosions rocked Afrin city in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Britain-based monitor said that one of the bombs was planted in a vehicle near the city’s cultural center, which is…

Car bomb strikes Syrian regime’s stronghold Latakia

A car bomb shook the Syrian regime's coastal stronghold of Latakia yesterday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen others, state news agency SANA reported. Authorities found a second explosive device in the same place and…

Nearly 5,000 flee last ISIS enclave in eastern Syria

Nearly 5,000 people, including almost 500 ISIS fighters, have since Monday left the extremist group’s last bastion in eastern Syria, where ISIS continues to lose ground, a Britain-based monitor said. Kurdish-led forces, backed by air…

Kurdish-led forces overrun last ISIS-held village in Syria

Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by ISIS in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” to two small hamlets, a war monitor said. It is the culmination of a broad offensive launched by the Syrian…

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