August 2020

Deir ez-Zor province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that two masked men on a motorcycle targeted a member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the city of Al-Busayrah, east of Deir ez-Zor, killing him and…

Mortar shells fell in the vicinity of a U.S. base in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Tuesday, a war monitor reported. The mortar shells, launched by an unknown party, struck the the U.S. base in the Koniko gas field in the…

Raqqa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that residents in al-Raqqah countryside, which is under the control of SDF, found today the body of an 8-year-old girl, killed and lying on the outskirts of the…

Total of 483 aid workers were killed, kidnapped or wounded last year, highest number since 1997 Health staff have been repeatedly targeted in Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo ( Getty )…

World Humanitarian Day 2020: A tribute to aid workers on the front lines Amid a global pandemic, unprecedented needs and growing insecurity, aid workers and health-care…

On August 4, hours before a massive explosion rocked the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an ominous warning to Lebanon. “We hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. I suggest to all of…

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians in a pickup with their belongings, as they flee fighting in the villages of Jabal…

Ability to carry out humanitarian work in most dangerous conflict-hit regions threatened by local NGO staff being caught in crossfireThere has been a sharp rise in the number of aid staff killed in the first six months of this year…

Nearly a hundred Ukrainian citizens remain at the camp – all women and their underage children. Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelensky to facilitate the return of…

The UN agency for Palestine refugees UNRWA has called on the international community to ensure that aid to support Lebanon in the wake of the August 4 explosion in Beirut also goes to Palestine refugees. It is extremely important to…