May 2020

ISIS has escalated its activities greatly in Ramadan through stepping up its operations in SDF-held areas in eastern Euphrates and in areas under the control of regime forces and loyalists in western Euphrates and the Syrian desert.…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: unknown assailants opened fire with light weapons on a regime captain while he was leaving Bosr Al-Hadid-Nahteh checkpoint in the eastern countryside of Daraa. The attack caused material…

Syrian Observatory sources have monitored fierce clashes in the early hours of Saturday morning in areas near Kafr Nubl and Al-Bara in the southern countryside of Idlib, between regime forces and opposition factions.   The clashes, which…

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that tens of prisoners (held over felony cases) have rioted in "Sarmada Court's prison", which is under the control of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham in the northern countryside of Idlib. Over…

The number of Turkish-backed Syrian militants that died in Libya has grown to 311, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 21. Syrian miltiants were fighting on behalf of the Turkish-backed Government of National…

A heavily-armed U.S. military convoy entered northeastern Syria this week to expand one of their bases inside the Al-Hasakah Governorate. Citing military sources, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that as many as…

Citing military sources, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that as many as 30 heavily-armed military vehicles, carrying 200 Marines, entered northeastern Syria. The monitor said that the U.S. military convoy…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a civilian today affected by the injuries he had in yesterday's explosion of a booby-trapped motorcycle in Al-Busayrah city.  …

A windstorm has struck refugee camps in Al-Sheikh Bahr area in western Idlib, which damaged over 125 tents.   On May 16, SOHR sources reported that nearly 40 tents were burned down in al-Baraka camp in Deir Hassan area in Idlib…