Monthly Archives
April 2020
Daraa: Tension between Russian-backed formation and regime forces on the rise
SOHR sources have reported seeing regime military build-up arriving in the vicinity of Nahteh and Al-Harrak in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The arrival of these reinforcement to Daraa comes after dignitaries and members of the…
HTS executes young man in rural Idlib after being deported from Turkey
SOHR sources say that HTS executed yesterday a young man from Dara Izza in north-western rural Aleppo, on "various charges", including blasphemy, insulting the God, having illegal relationships with women, drug use and attempting to return…
Asayish-NDF escalating tension: fierce clashes erupts between both powers in Al-Qamishly, and…
Syrian Observatory activists have reported that fierce clashes erupted between the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) and regime-backed National Defence Forces (NDF), in Al-Qamishly city. The clashes are concentrated in Halku area where NDF…
Nine Iranian-backed militiamen killed in Israeli strikes on Homs desert
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that at least nine militiamen of Iranian-backed militias and the Lebanese Hezbollah were killed in Israeli strikes on their positions in Palmyra area in the eastern countryside of Homs…
Curfew to be extended for ten days in Autonomous Administration-held areas
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the "Autonomous Administration in northern and north-eastern Syria" decided to extend the curfew in areas under its control for additional ten days. The previously announced curfew…
Unknown assailants blow up oil pipeline in Al-Qahtaniya
Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that unknown assailants blew up oil pipeline in Al-Qahtaniya town in rural Al-Hasakah yesterday.
The explosion caused significant material damage but no casualties have been reported…
Hiding from US drones: Qaterji oil trucks camouflage while transporting crude oil from SDF to…
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored tens of tankers transporting crude oil from SDF-held areas to regime-controlled areas, where about 60 oil trucks were seen near Manbij city covered with thick camouflage fabric to hide…
Some Syrians prefer ruined homes to crowded camps
Taher al-Matar’s home in northwest Syria is in ruins but he has gone back to live there anyway, driven by dire conditions in camps for displaced people, where he fears any outbreak of the coronavirus would be devastating.…
Covid-19 Hasn’t Spread Far in Syria, but the Picture is Bleak
In a Q&A with Direct Relief, Dr. Mufaddal Hamadeh, the head of the Syrian American society, weighs in on what can be done, and what can't.
A Syrian school used as a shelter for internally displaced people was bombed on February…