April 2020

Syria reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 23, 2020, while its first death was confirmed on March 29. As of April 9, the number of confirmed cases in the country stood at 19. Some reports do note that the spread of the…

More than a million people in Kurdish-held areas of north-east Syria are being put at risk of a mass Coronavirus outbreak as Turkish-backed groups repeatedly cut off the water supply to a region in which health services are…

The coronavirus pandemic hangs over war-ravaged northwest Syria like the sword of Damocles. The novel coronavirus reached the war-torn country late last month. At the time of this story's publication, Syria has reported…

Here's What You Need To Remember: It was the group’s involvement in a 1985 hostage crisis in Lebanon that earned the Alpha Group an international reputation as a vicious — but effective — counterterror unit. Russia and the Lebanese Islamic…

The world is going to change once the pandemic is over. That’s for sure. Many concepts and practices are going to change, including work relations inside the same institution. More and more people will be working from…

A Turkish aid group on Friday distributed relief assistance to 5,000 families around the northern Syrian town of Azaz on the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, Anadolu Agency reports. Unable to provide…

ISIS activities have escalated throughout the Syrian desert where regime forces and loyal militiamen of Syrian and foreign nationalities are present, in particular the Iranian militias and Lebanese and Iraqi Hezbollah. ISIS resurgence is…

Syrian Observatory sources have confirmed the assassination of an oil "contractor" dealing with SDF in Al-Omar oil field, after unknown gunmen shot him in Al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. As more people were…

Turkish forces and their proxies still continue following systematic practices to  push the remaining residents in areas under control of “Peace Spring” factions out of  their areas, just like what happens in Afrin. Turkey seeks to bring…