April 2020

The Syrian Observatory has monitored this evening artillery shelling by regime forces, targeting the village of Al-Qasr in western Aleppo countryside. Meanwhile, sporadic clashes with machine guns erupted between regime forces and loyalists…

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that the shelling carried out by Turkish forces and proxy factions on rural Tal Tamer town after midnight and dawn today, was in retaliation for SDF's infiltration attempt into the area…

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that opposition factions and jihadist groups have brought in new military reinforcement to their positions in the areas of Al-Nayrab and Sarmin in eastern Idlib countryside. Meanwhile,…

ALICE FORDHAM A Syrian refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, in January 2019. Now, people fleeing war and calamity have an added worry with the coronavirus pandemic.…

He helped doctors to keep their hospitals going through the Syrian war, now he's battling the coronavirus in Chicago, writes Richard Hall Dr Zaher Sahloul has been here before. He has worked in hospitals where…

The UN’s chemical weapons watchdog is expected to release its first report explicitly blaming Bashar al-Assad for sarin and chlorine gas attacks on civilians in Syria as efforts to establish accountability for the use of chemical agents…

A United Nations investigation into attacks on humanitarian sites in Syria concluded in a report released on Monday that the Syrian government or its allies had committed most of them — but failed to name Russia, the most important of…

Parties to Syria’s brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN’s so-called…

Image copyrightAFPImage captionA July 2019 attack on a hospital in Kafranbel was among those identified A UN panel says it is "highly probable" that government forces were behind attacks last year on four civilian facilities in…

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