October 2020

Israel occupied about 1,200 sq km of Syria’s Golan Heights in 1967 after launching a surprise air attack against Damascus’s Egyptian allies and sparking the Six Day War in June of that year. In 1981, Tel Aviv formally annexed the…

Report dentifies 10 senior civilian and military officials who it says may be implicated in crimes against humanity. Governments should impose sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Russia’s President Putin and senior…

Human Rights Watch released a 167-page report titled ‘Targeting Life in Idlib,’ outlining a list of possible war crimes. (File/AFP) The monthslong Russian-backed Syrian offensive killed…

Freed Yemeni Houthi prisoners line up on a red carpet upon their arrival at Sanaa airport on 15 October 2020 (AFP) Hundreds of fighters in Yemen have begun heading home after a massive prisoner swap between the…

Hopes of a humanitarian ceasefire ending fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh sank on Thursday as the death toll mounted and Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of launching new attacks. A burnt vehicle is seen outside a hospital, which,…

Released fighters ‘have no blood on their hands’ and have all repented joining ISIL, Syrian Democratic Council says. A man suspected of having collaborated with ISIL is greeted by family members upon his release from the…

Unlawful Attacks on Hospitals, Schools, Markets Forced Idlib Population Out The Syrian and Russian armed forces’ repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure in Idlib in northwest Syria were apparent war crimes…

SOHR sources have documented the death of a young man from Deir Al-Adas town in the northern countryside of Daraa, after a landmine explosion nearby the town.   Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of 363 people,…