May 2020

SOHR sources say that regime forces stationed near the village of Bakrafa on Damascus-Daraa road, arrested today five civilians, including two defectors from the regime's army, taking them to their prisons. On the other hand, SOHR sources…

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:10 P.M.) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday that said it “time has come” to confront the U.S. policy of waging wars. “Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been killed in wars…

A roadside bomb reportedly exploded in Syria’s northwestern region of Idlib as a Turkish military convoy passed by on Wednesday. Soldiers were wounded in the explosion on the M4 highway, Demiroren News Agency said, adding that…

Nine years of war have cost Syria more than 530 billion dollars, vastly exceeding estimates by United Nations and Syrian experts two years ago. Forty percent of the country’s infrastructure has been destroyed, incurring losses of 65 billion…

With an overwhelming majority already reeling from poverty, the ongoing pandemic has exacerbated food shortages across Syria. Among the myriad of other forms of insecurity that prevail across war-torn Syria, food insecurity levels…

The UN sent Wednesday 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, where millions are in urgent need of assistance. The trucks carrying supplies entered Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in…

Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while intercepting a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance aircraft over the Mediterranean Sea, U.S. 6th Fleet said on Tuesday. The intercept the third such…

Two Russian fighter jets “flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner” while intercepting a U.S. spy plane on Tuesday over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. Navy said in a statement. The encounter marks the third time in two…

The new Special Representative of the Russian President for the Development of Relations with the Syrian Arab Republic faces a challenge as large as his title as Russian media begins to accuse Syrian officials of incompetence…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZkO8LPLXEY (21 May 2020) Twenty years after Hezbollah fighters pushed Israel's last troops from southern Lebanon, both sides are gearing up for a possible war that neither seems to want. Israeli…