April 2020

SOHR sources say that an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded today in Ethraya area, east of Hama province, targeting a military vehicle of regime forces, killing two regime soldiers and injuring others Syrian desert, which spans…

SOHR sources say that locals in the village of Al-Tha'ala in rural Al-Sweida found this morning the body of a member of the reconciliation committee between Al-Sweida and Daraa in southern Syria. He was found dead with blows on the head by…

Daraa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: unidentified gunmen assassinated today a member of the military intelligence division of the regime forces, on the road connecting the towns of Saham al-Golan and al-Shajra west of…

Makeshift shelters of internally displaced Syrians in the northwestern province of Idlib With cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed in Syria, Libya and Yemen in recent weeks, there…

By the time Turkey invaded northern Syria, in October, the Ain Issa refugee camp—twenty miles south of the Turkish border—resembled a small city. In recent years, some fourteen thousand people had moved there, displaced by isis,…

WHO has steered most of its anti-coronavirus help through Bashar al-Assad's government After nine years of war, Syria is broken into three rival parts unable to work together and ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus -…

It feels like a lifetime ago that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shoving Syrian refugees toward Greece in a desperate attempt to involve the Europeans more directly in Syria. Erdogan had learned the hard…

BEIRUT (AP) — After nine years of war, Syria is broken into three rival parts unable to work together and ill-prepared to cope with the coronavirus, an enemy that knows no conflict lines. Medical personnel in Kurdish-run…

PARIS: The Syrian regime has been accused of various crimes during the conflict that started in 2011, including torture in prisons, summary executions and the use of chemical weapons. Here is an overview:…

In September 2012, a year and a half into the Syrian uprising, the opposition movement decided to help regime officials defect abroad, in hopes of accelerating the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. One such official was Anwar…