December 2020

BEIRUT — Every morning, Abu Mohammed and his two eldest sons wake up for dawn prayer in Damascus, then take turns heading to the bakery. They wait for at least three hours, barely making it to work or school on time,…

Adecade after the Arab Spring, little has improved for those who stood up against Middle Eastern autocrats and demanded a better life. Most of the countries that erupted in protests and subsequently in violence are still ruled by despotic…

SOHR sources say that a Palestinian writer and novelist from Daraa governorate has died yesterday, after nearly 25 years of his arrest on charges concerning "the State Security”. He was buried in his home town of Tafas after his body was…

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing a new Turkish military column of more than 25 personnel carriers and vehicles carrying military and logistical supplies crossing into the Syrian territory this evening, via Kafr Lusin border…

Al-Hasakah Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syria Democratic Forces have carried out a new infiltration operation into two positions of Turkish-backed factions maar Tawilah and Um Al-Keif in Tal Tamr countryside in…

Al-Raqqah Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored renewed artillery shelling by the Turkish-backed factions of "Peace Spring" operations room on the frontlines of Jahbal Al-Mushairifah villages in Ain…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have confirmed that a group of Iranian-backed militiamen, who had served in Al-Bokamal countryside, has split and fled to SDF-held areas in the eastern countryside of…

A year has passed since the US Senate passed “Caesar Act” in mid-December 2019 and signed by US President Donald Trump on December 21, 2019. The Act was aimed at exerting pressure on the Syrian regime by imposing economic sanctions and…

Daraa governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that unidentified gunmen have attempted, this morning, to assassinate two brothers in the town of Tafas in western countryside of Daraa, by shooting them. The…