July 2020

SOHR sources say that medical teams have recorded new coronavirus case in Idlib city. This brings the number of infected people to 16 in Idlib province, which is under the control of HTS. According to Observatory statistics, the number of…

SOHR activists say that a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in the town of Ras al-Ain (Sari Kani) in the northern countryside of Hasakeh, which is under the control of Turkish factions, causing material damage. No casualties have been…

SOHR sources say that regime forces stationed in the southern countryside of Idlib shelled the villages of Al-Muzarara, Al-Ruwayha, Safohin, Fleifel and the town of Kansafra in Jabal al-Zawiya in Idlib countryside. Frontlines and their…

Daraa Governorate- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen assassinated a young man working with the military intelligence branch, of those who had struck a reconciliation deal with regime forces, at…

Syrian torture survivors demand justice after finding themselves living next to their oppressors in Europe Salwa Al Homsi was only 24 when she was jailed by Syrian intelligence agents in Aleppo in 2012,…

A Turkish member of parliament has faced backlash after a ‘racist’ tweet targeting a Syrian refugee, Orient News reported. Ilay Aksoy, of the nationalist Iyi Party, posted a picture on Tuesday naming a young female Syrian graduate and…

Families of the more than 130,000 people believed to be detained and forcibly disappeared in Syria, are deeply frustrated by the Security Council’s failure to unite and make progress on the issue, the…

As the laws of war become optional and crimes in Syria and Libya go unpunished, there are fears the body has no teeth A security council meeting in 1953. Some countries are questioning whether the UN, set up after the…

Syrian mercenaries from that country's civil war could now meet opposite each other in the Libyan conflict, only this time as Wagner Group mercenaries. In "The Return," Hisham Matar’s haunting 2016 memoir about seeking to…

Iranian authorities said Friday two U.S. fighter jets flew dangerously close to an Iranian passenger plane over war-torn Syria, forcing the pilot to take emergency action and sparking panic on board. However, the U.S. military…