August 2020

OTTAWA, Aug. 24, 2020 — Today Grace Atkinson, Executive Director of Jusoor, announced that the Right Honourable David Johnston, the 28th Governor General of Canada, will deliver the keynote address during Jusoor’s 2020 virtual graduation…

SOHR activists say that two pro-regime militiamen were killed and five others were injured in a landmine explosion, planted by Islamic State members near al-Rusafa area in the Syrian desert in countryside of al-Raqqa province. It is…

Is Turkey the new Russia? That question is increasingly being asked in European capitals as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an adopts a more aggressive foreign policy. In addition to using migration to threaten and finagle the…

STRINGER / AFPRussian fighter jets on the tarmac at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia province, in the northwest of Syria, on February 16, 2016. Maj.-Gen. Vyacheslav Gladkikh killed in IED attack that also left…

SOHR sources have monitored dozens of residents holding a demonstration in Tal Abyad in northern countryside of al-Raqqa province, within the "Peace Spring" areas. The demonstrators demanded that military police officers who stormed a…

Hindered by an array of domestic and international obstacles and competing regime priorities, the Syrian government’s efforts to attract regional capital for investment and reconstruction will be insufficient. People…

1 / 5 The Turkish armed forces seem to specialize in only one thing since the creation of the Turkish Republic — suppressing Kurds. (AFP) 2 / 5 Kurds rally for cultural and political rights in Turkey. (AFP…

Syria's oil minister says explosion targeting three power stations was a 'terrorist attack'. A suspected attack on a pipeline in Syria has caused a nationwide blackout…

Reliable SOHR sources say that the family of a shepherd was subjected to a gang rape nearby Khan Shaykhun city in the southern countryside of Idlib.   According to SOHR sources, the shepherd's wife and three daughters were raped cruelly…