April 2020

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL Fact Sheet: Provision of Humanitarian Assistance and Trade to Combat COVID-19 Date: April 16, 2020 The United States is committed to ensuring that…

AMMAN — On Wednesday, Turkish and Russian forces conducted their fourth joint patrol of the Latakia-Aleppo international “M4” highway, following a confrontation two days earlier which saw Turkish military police shoot tear gas at…

Mazlum Abdi, Commander-in-Chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), delivers a speech after the group's final military defeat over the Islamic State in Syria, April 8, 2019. (Photo: Hawar News Agency) ERBIL…

Syria’s health care system has been decimated by war, as have Yemen’s and Libya’s. The Middle East has large populations of refugees and migrants at risk during the pandemic. Then there are the poor who, if they can’t work because of a…

MAARAT MASRIN, Syria (Reuters) - Standing in colourful hula hoops carefully spaced to illustrate social distancing, young children in a camp in war-torn Syria give an enthusiastic welcome to a puppet show staged to teach them about…

Daraa governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that a regime soldier was injured today in the city of Nawa in rural Daraa, after being targeted by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle. In the meantime, regime's…

Outreach workers in northern Syria are raising awareness about the pandemic. © UNFPA Syria AZRAQ CAMP, Jordan/HOMS, Syria/UNITED NATIONS, New York – “I invested the first four days of the lockdown calling…

The Syrian Observatory has documented the death of a civilian as a result of artillery shelling by regime forces stationed in the 46th regiment, targeting the village of Kafr Ta'al in western Aleppo countryside. Meanwhile, three women were…

SOHR activists say that a Turkish military column entered via Kafr Losin crossing, north of Idlib, heading towards "Putin-Erdoğan" area in rural Idlib, consisting of some 40 vehicle carrying military and logistical equipment. The number…

Istanbul — Hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have survived nine years of civil war and waves of indiscriminate bombing now face a growing threat from a new, silent, invisible enemy: the coronavirus. The roughly 3 million…