October 2020

How many battles can Turkey fight at once? One year ago, Turkey launched a military incursion into Northern Syria—with U.S. President Donald Trump’s blessing—to push Kurdish rebel forces away from its southern border. Earlier this month,…

Reliable sources have informed SOHR that Turkish forces transported most of the contents of their observation post in Murek town to Idlib countryside in the past few days. It is expected that the post will be completely evacuated on Friday.…

Palestinian demonstrators burn posters of the US president in Bethlehem's Manger Square after he declared Jerusalem as Israel's capital on 6 December 2017 (AFP) Every US president leaves his mark on the Middle East,…

image captionDespite Trump's regional accords, many of those polled said Biden would be better Neither of the two US presidential candidates will be good for the Middle East and North Africa - so says a recent survey of Arabs…

While Trump touts 'America First,' Biden is wary of 'America alone' 03:21 Beirut (CNN)All the world's a stage, Shakespeare wrote. But since President Donald Trump came to office, the rest of the world has…

A civilian sustained serious injuries after the explosion of an old landmine in a tractor in Jib Khasara village in the eastern countryside of Hama.   Yesterday, Observatory activists monitored the explosion of an old landmine in a car…

SOHR sources have reported that regime forces shelled, with heavy artillery, Kansafrah town, the villages of Sfuhen, Kafr Oweid and Al-Mawzarah in Jabal Al-Zawiyah. No casualties have been reported so far.   Meanwhile, Russian…

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights October 2020 Although the Counter-ISIS International Coalition command and the leaders of Syria Democratic Forces announced the elimination of the so-called Caliphate of the “Islamic State” in March…

Deir ez-Zor province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that a military force affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) raided today the village of Al-Azba, north of Deir ez-Zor city, arresting a person…