August 2020

SOHR eyewitnesses have reported that young people in Azaz city in northern Aleppo countryside, staged today a vigil on the anniversary of the chemical attack massacre committed by the regime in Ghouta in Damascus. The demonstrators demanded…

SOHR sources say that three civilians, including a child, were killed today, as a landmine left over from the war exploded on the agricultural land near the town of Kansafra in Idlib countryside, while picking figs. Figs in Idlib…

Smoke billows following airstrikes and shelling on the countryside of Maaret Misrin town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on August 18, 2020. (AFP / Abdulaziz Ketaz) ANKARA: The arrival of…

The Gulf state has long expressed a desire to acquire the jet made by Lockheed Martin, which Israel has used in combat. In the Middle East, only Israel now flies the stealth…

For the past eight days, the people of northeastern Syria have been without water, despite the blistering heat that is greatly affecting the Al-Jazira region. According to reports from locals in northeast Syria, the Turkish military and…

The United States should never have gotten involved in “endless wars” in the Middle East to “act as policemen”, and the decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria has not resulted in the disaster opponents believed it…

Syrians gather near a vehicle of the United Nations (UN) arms experts as they inspect a site suspected of being hit by a deadly chemical weapons attack last week on 28 August 2013 in the Eastern Ghouta area on the northeastern…

An American company intends to extract oil from Syria as part of a deal that is likely to become justification for an ongoing military presence in the region. A 2018 photo of an oil field controlled by a US-backed Kurdish group in…

In August 1907, Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, which settled their geostrategic differences and brought them into a rough alliance after nearly a century as bitter and bloody adversaries. Their…

Syria has accused President Donald Trump of stealing the country's oil, after U.S. officials confirmed that a U.S. company has been allowed to operate there in fields under the control of a Pentagon-backed militia. In remarks delivered…