October 2020

Turkish-backed factions continue their violations against the people of Afrin who have refused to leave the canton. Since Turkish forces captured Afrin canton, these factions have practiced various violations against the residents there on…

Relatives mourn over the coffin of an Armenian soldier killed in the fighting with Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that weeks of…

Following is the text of a Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Small Group on Syria. We, the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the United States…

In a ministerial meeting of the Small Group on Syria on Thursday, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry stressed the necessity of reaching a political solution in the war-torn country and warned against foreign interferences,…

Earlier this month A freezer truck arrived at the Turkish-Syrian border, loaded with the bodies of 52 Syrian men, killed in a war about 140 km away. The dead were mercenaries from Turkish-backed militias in Syria, recruited to fight for…

Two Franciscan friars, the only remaining clergy in Idlib, Syria, have revealed the details of their lives ministering in one of the last bastions of jihadist rule in the country, including the daily threat of being killed, tortured or…

Displaced Syrians are seen near their makeshift tents at the Atme village of Idlib, Syria on October 16, 2020 Turkish aid organisations have established an orphanage in the north-west Syrian city of Idlib and named it…

Click to expandA shop containing toilets, tiles and other housewares burns in Stepanakert on the night of October 3, 2020 after the city is shelled.  © 2020 Union of Informed Citizens. Azerbaijan has…

SOHR sources have reported seeing Russian and Turkish forces running a new joint patrol in the eastern countryside of Ain Al-Arab (Kobani), along with the flight of Russian helicopters over the area.   The patrol, which comprised four…

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored ongoing fierce clashes on several frontlines in the eastern countryside of Hama in the Syrian desert between regime forces and loyalists on one hand, and "Islamic State" on the other, as a part of…