April 2020

Sam Dagher’s “Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed” is the definitive chronicle of a tragic war that has left the country in the state described by Tacitus: “where they make a desert, they call it peace.”…

Suspected ISIL fighters lie in a prison cell in Hasaka, Syria, in February Countries across the Middle East have imposed measures to isolate their people to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but attention…

Several incidents that have recently occurred between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have brought the decades-long conflict between the two back into focus. The recent uptick in activity began March 26 when a drone was…

Doctors in America are facing the same kinds of life-and-death decisions and life-threatening challenges with the coronavirus that many doctors face in war-torn countries like Syria, Yemen and the Sudan, says Syrian American…

The Syrian interim government has announced a curfew on people who are under the age of 12 and over the age of 65. The decision included stopping people transit in addition to the public and private vehicles between cities that fall under…

The Syrian Observatory has monitored this evening sporadic clashes with light and medium weapons between jihadist and Islamic factions on one side, and regime forces and loyalists on the other, on the frontline of Al-Ruwayha village in…

Widespread looting continues  in eastern Ghouta during curfew imposed by regime. Local sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that tens of shop looting incidents took place in Al-Jalaa street and the Grand Mosque in Douma city during…

Syrian Observatory sources have reported that regime forces fired several rockets this afternoon, targeting Al-Salihyah village in the eastern countryside of Idlib. No casualties have been reported yet. Otherwise, tense calm is…

The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) issued a statement accusing the regime-backed "National Defense Forces" (NDF) of attacking Kurdish checkpoint in Al-Qamishli city in Al-Hasakah countryside. SOHR obtained a copy of the statement…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have documented a new assassination in eastern Deir Ezzor in the wake of deteriorating security in SDF-held areas in the province. According to SOHR sources, two…