August 2020

The Libyan ceasefire initiative announced last week drew the attention of the international community to the importance of combating mercenaries in the Middle East. Syria is being used as a platform to move terrorist militias across the…

A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on August 26, 2020 shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meeting with Iraqi national security advisor Faleh al-Fayad in the Syrian capital Damascus. AFP…

Ankara now held the “ability to cut water indefinitely to over half a million water-starved people” in Kurdish-held areas HASAKAH, Syria: Outside her home in northeast Syria, Sheikha Majid said her life…

The U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested several "civilians" in the northeastern province of Hasakah and the northern Raqqa province on Wednesday, said state news agency SANA. The SDF carried out house raids…

SOHR activists say that two U.S. soldiers in a military patrol were injured in collision, while roaming areas in the al-Hasakah countryside yesterday, as a number of armored vehicles of a Russian patrol blocked and chased vehicles of U.S.…

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that a joint group of members loyal to regime forces and Russians were lost in Al-Mayadeen desert in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor. According to Observatory sources, members…

Observatory sources have monitored today clashes with machine guns between members of "Ahrar al-Sharqiya" and others from "Ahrar Goyran" in the town of Tel Half in the Ras al-Ain countryside, within the "Peace Spring" areas.…

SOHR sources have monitored an exchange of rocket attacks on frontlines of southern countryside of Idlib, between regime forces and loyalists on one side, factions and HTS on the other, in addition to exchange of fire with heavy machine…

Exactly one hundred years ago, France and Great Britain formally carved up for themselves the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, which was defeated by the Allies in World War One and dismantled by them afterwards. Gathered at…

https://youtu.be/ebBHsVlsdJ8 A fragile ceasefire in Syria may have briefly halted the war, but the orphans left behind by nine years of conflict face a new struggle. Hundreds of thousands of children in Idlib province now fight the…