June 2020

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Two Kurdish sisters have been identified as among almost a dozen women who were held in illegal detention by a Turkish-backed Syrian armed faction in Afrin, a UK-based relative has told Rudaw, and have…

Video has emerged online that shows the remains of three AGM-114R9X missiles used in a recent strike on Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Syria, providing the best look yet at the innards of this mysterious version of the venerable Hellfire,…

ERBIL - At least two people were found dead on Tuesday in Syria's eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor two days after they were abducted by the Islamic State (IS) insurgents, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…

HAMA, Syria (North Press) – Government forces targeted two villages in the northwestern countryside of Hama on Wednesday, in conjunction with receiving reinforcements in Saraqeb. Meanwhile, a Turkish military convoy entered the Idlib…

More than 380,000 dead, over half of the population forced from their homes, and a country in ruins: Syria's conflict, which started in March 2011, has been devastating. Here are some figures showing the human tragedy of more than nine…

Fresh fighting in Idlib province threatens a new humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria, where the threat of Covid-19 still looms large and thousands of families live in cramped and basic shelters without adequate food, water or cleaning…

Ankara, Moscow and Tehran have agreed to hold a joint videoconference, followed by a face-to-face meeting to discuss a settlement on Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced on Tuesday.…

The economic embargo is the weapon of a "global system of finance and geopolitics". It uses peoples and nations as "pawns for its own interest". The Sisters note that people “are dying from starvation,” not only from the coronavirus.…

SOHR sources say that masked men, believed to be ISIS cells, threatened a technical worker in the Koniko gas field, accusing him of apostasy because he did not leave his job. It is worth nothing that the worker is a preacher at Al-Safa…

As the Syrian pound continues to spiral, Syrian opposition introduces Turkish lira into rebel-held areas A Syrian man displays Turkish lira being used in northern Syria (MEE/Ali Haj Suleiman) Turkey has begun…