April 2020

Aleppo Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that a civilian was killed during clashes today in the city of Jarabulus, while four others were injured when a mortar shell hit the city market, as a result of…

Daraa Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen assassinated today a person cooperating with regime security services and recruiting young men for Lebanese Hezbollah, in the town of Tsiel…

Turkish-backed factions continue to excavate and search for antiquities in various areas in rural Afrin city, northwest of Aleppo. Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that militants of "Sultan Suleiman Shah" faction,…

Al-Quneitra Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today the assassination of a member of the regime forces in Nasiriyah town in Quneitra countryside by unknown gunmen. Rising…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored today artillery shelling carried out by the Turkish army targeted the villages of Hoshan, Khalidiya, and the M4 road west of Ayn Issa north of al-Raqqah. The Syrian Observatory for Human…

Years ago in Venezuela, a friend and I visited some of the numerous free health clinics established by then-President Hugo Chavez. We weren’t suffering from any particular ailment; we were simply intrigued by the novelty of healthcare…

Over the past two weeks, the spread of COVID-19 in Russia has accelerated. The country currently has more than 18,000 officially registered cases and 148 deaths. Although these numbers are well below what is being announced in…

US President Donald Trump announced the freezing of $400m annual payments over WHO's 'mishandling' of the coronavirus pandemic Aid organisations have warned that US President Donald Trump's move to cut funding to the World Health…

A single machine at Mohamad Shahim Makki’s medical centre in Idlib province, part of Syria’s last rebel stronghold, is the only alarm that will sound when the coronavirus strikes a population of millions of the world’s most vulnerable…

As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, experts warn that disaster looms in war-torn Syria, where hospitals are unable to meet existing needs and hygiene conditions are dire. The outbreak…