June 2020

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing trucks carrying metal irrigation pipelines, and heavy diggers affiliated to Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham stealing other lines, near Qaston Dam in Sahl Al-Ghab in north-western Hama.   The…

Syrian Observatory sources say that SDF heavy artillery pounded positions of the Turkish forces and their proxies in Kurmaza village in northern Al-Raqqah.   Meanwhile, Turkish forces responded with shelling SDF positions and checkpoints…

Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Al Hady Al Huweij – representing the Tobruk-based government – welcomed Egypt's call to hold an urgent Arab League meeting to discuss the Turkish aggression against the North African state. The minister…

The Syrian Health Ministry recorded 11 new COVID-19 cases in the country, bringing the overall number of infections to 198, according to the state news agency SANA on Saturday. The overall number of infections includes 83 recoveries and…

The combination of a global pandemic, economic upheaval and growing support for the Black Lives Matter Movement has placed a spotlight on multiple systemic issues plaguing our society. This World Refugee Day, we’re reminded of yet another…

Around 15 Dutch jihadi women have escaped from a prison camp in northern Syria and taken refuge in a villa in Idlib, the women’s lawyer has confirmed to the Telegraaf. According to Dutch security service AIVD figures, some 35 women who had…

Turkey continues to entrench itself militarily in northern Syria and all signs indicate that it is preparing to remain in parts of the region that it controls for the long haul. Ankara is setting up local governments and the institutional…

The United Nations Security Council is considered a proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq into Syria for six months to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to help millions of Syrian civilians combat the coronavirus pandemic.…

"Now in Aleppo everyone says: we were better off under the bombs," Maronite Archbishop Joseph Tobji of Aleppo told the Vatican’s Fides news agency.  He reflected the feeling of his city on Wednesday, as the so-called "Caesar Act" sanctions…

On June 17, the most wide-ranging U.S. sanctions ever applied against Syria went into effect. The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, passed into law as part of the most recent National Defense Authorization Act, dramatically expands the…