August 2020

A meeting in Geneva next week of Syrians tasked with amending their country's constitution marks an important step and could help open the door to a broader political process, the UN envoy said on Friday. Members of Syria's Constitutional…

U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffery answers questions before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, May 22, 2019. (AA Photo) U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey will pay a visit to Switzerland…

EU strategy to divert refugee flows to third-party countries such as Lebanon seems increasingly unviable Syrian refugees stand on the balcony of a building under construction, which they have been using as a shelter in Sidon, Lebanon, on…

Rival powers call for truce but renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar has yet to respond. Many ceasefires have failed to bring an end to years of conflict in Libya. But the two rival powers appear to have found some…

Trump claims Chicago violence worse than Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria President was speaking at campaign rally in Wisconsin Donald Trump has claimed that recent violence in Chicago is…

Russian jets continue their intensive airstrikes for the third consecutive day, targeting ISIS positions in the Syrian desert. SOHR activists have reported intensive airstrikes on the area stretching from the eastern countryside of Homs,…

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that Syria Democratic Forces stormed Al-Kassar village, near Al-Busayrah city in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, this morning. The security forces arrested an old man and a teacher,…

Rif Dimashq Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: reliable sources have informed SOHR that the regime's security services arrested a woman after storming her house in Al-Kurnish street in Douma city in Rif Dimashq. According to…

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored a US military convoy crossing into Syria last night, via Al-Walid border crossing with Kurdistan Region of Iraq.   The convoy, comprised several military vehicles and 40 trucks carrying tanks,…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:SOHR sources say that regime forces have established many checkpoints at the junctions and entrances of towns in the western countryside of Daraa. The new checkpoints have been…