June 2020

Crippling new sanctions punish Syrian civilians for US defeat in proxy war As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction. “For…

Turkey bombed Iraq and Syria, striking a Kurdish militia it has accused of training members of the left-wing, international antifa movement involved in protests across the United States. The Turkish Defense Ministry released…

Four-month-old Abdul Rahman, propped up on pillows on a blue blanket in his family’s tent. Two-year-old Walid, striking a boxer’s pose in the center of the mat. Nine-year-old Ranim, who has never known peace, her bare feet poking out from…

This is an especially challenging time for Syrian refugees living in Turkey as most of them work in the service sector, the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a local sociologist.…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have documented the killing of three members of the Russian-backed 5th Corps, in addition to the injury of more than 16 others due to an IED explosion in a…

Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the killing of two persons, one of whom works in the "Ikhtarin Civil Council", due to an attack on a motorcycle they were riding on the outskirt of Al-Bab…

As security situation is deteriorating in areas under the control of Hyyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and the factions in Idlib province and surrounding countryside, Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of two displaced young men…

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored renewed clashes and attacks in Abu Rasin countryside (Zarkan) in the early hours of Saturday morning, between Turkish-backed factions stationed in Um Ishbeh villages and regime forces stationed in…

Syrian Observatory activists say that regime forces fired several rockets this dawn and early morning, targeting places in Kafr Oweid, Al-Barah in the southern countryside of Idlib, and Al-Ankawi in Sahl Al-Ghab in the north-western…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that a group of the regime's "Air-Force Intelligence" branch stormed the house of a civilian in Da'el town in the middle countryside of Daraa…