May 2020

The US, Russia, and Israel are pushing to block a strategic road corridor between Tehran and Beirut, passing through Baghdad and Damascus and which is used by Iran to transport ammunitions and arms to its allies, particularly Hezbollah.…

On Wednesday, May 13, Fox News reported that Iran has resumed construction of an underground tunnel designed to hold arms at the Kataib Imam Ali group in Syria, about 5 km from the border with Iraq, learned BulgarianMilitary.com citing…

SOHR activists say that regime forces shelled the villages of Kafr Ama and Al-Qasr in western Aleppo countryside, and the town of Kansafra in Idlib countryside, accompanied with the flight of regime reconnaissance drones over Idlib…

The Syrian Observatory has monitored this evening artillery shelling by the Turkish army stationed in northern Aleppo, targeting the area of Shirawa and the villages of Aqaba, Sughanka, Mara'anaz and Al-Malikia, which are controlled by…

SOHR activists have reported that gunmen from Al-Sweida province stole nearly 250 sheep belonging to a civilian in Salkhad town. The gunmen assaulted the shepherd and several young men were working with him. On May 12, SOHR sources…

Containing some of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the world, including half-a-dozen major World Heritage sites, Syria’s ancient architectural and archeological treasures have suffered gravely during the long war.…

• The Syrian Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed 47 people with COVID-19, including three people who died and 29 who recovered, as of 10 May. • As of 10 May, six people with COVID-19 were reported in north-east Syria (NES), including one…

The lockdown to contain the coronavirus has made a bad situation worse.  Day labourers, craftsmen and small business owners are the most affected. The authorities’ figures are questionable. Ten lung ventilators donated by Pope Francis as…

Syrian designer Nabil Nayal is among 37 designers set to receive emergency funding support from the British Fashion Council (BFC) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic Syrian designer Nabil Nayal is among 37…

A family feud risks dividing the Syrian president’s supporters In 1957 a young air-force officer from the highlands called Hafez al-Assad married a girl from the coast named Anisa Makhlouf. It seemed a good fit: Assad was…