August 2020

United Arab Emirates and Israel agree to 'full normalization' of diplomatic relations, Trump announces UAE and Israel agree to establish full diplomatic ties; Kevin Corke reports from the White House. President…

Syrian Observatory sources have reported that exchange of fire took place in the early hours of Friday morning, between SDF members stationed on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, west of Al-Tayyanah town in the east of Deir Ezzor,…

SOHR activists have documented the killing of two persons and the injury of another one in the explosion of an old landmine in a farmland in Al-Nayrab town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, while they were picking figs.   Syrian…

People sit near the municipality building as it is lit in the United Arab Emirates national flag following the announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates, in Tel Aviv, Israel…

Regime forces renewed rocket attacks on the "de-escalation zone", targeting places in Al-Fterah, Kansafra, Sfuhen, Majdaliyyah, Bayanin, Al-Ruwayha and Kafr Oweid in the southern countryside of Idlib. Meanwhile, opposition factions shelled…

SOHR sources say that clashes renewed in the early hours of Friday morning between "Manbij Military Council" and Tukrish-backed factions, on Muhsenly frontlines in Manbij countryside, in north-eastern Aleppo. The clashes were accompanied by…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored an attack by unknown gunmen on a military post affiliated to the SDF-backed "Self-Defense Forces" in Al-Keshliyyah town in the eastern countryside of…

While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign to push regime change and crush Lebanese resistance with sanctions and aggressive hybrid warfare. By…

I have witnessed much suffering in Idlib during this long conflict, but the last few months have been the worst. People fled the military bombardments in great waves, sometimes tens of thousands in one day. The…

The Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership today announced it is launching a campaign dedicated to the case of detained American freelance journalist Austin Tice that will continue until he is released. Starting on August 14, the…