December 2020

The European Union plans to spend hundreds of millions of euros over the next year helping refugees living in Turkey, most of them people who fled the war in Syria. The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, said Wednesday…

Syrian President Bashar al Assad visits Syrian army troops in war-torn northwestern Idlib province, Syria, in this handout released by SANA on October 22, 2019. SANA/Handout via REUTERS Throughout the past nine years of conflict, the…

After 75 consecutive months of military operations by International Coalition against the “Islamic State” in Syria, the situation in north-eastern Syria region has become relatively stable, as the map of influence is now entirely clear. In…

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has been trying to present itself as a moderate group seeking to have its name removed from the international terrorist list, but these attempts are failing after the United States recently designated it among the…

Near the one-year anniversary of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act being signed into law, the Trump administration on Tuesday sanctioned nearly 20 people and companies over their connections to the regime of Syrian President…

Adecade has passed since the December 2010 self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor who set off mass protests in the Arab world. The wave of democratization, which began with the Jasmine Revolution in…

Idlib Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of two civilians and injury of three others in the explosion of an IED planted by unknown individuals in "Al-Namaa" petrol station, near Bab…

Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a child after being hit with an indiscriminate shot by heavy machinegun on the outskirts of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo.…

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored a new convoy of the International Coalition carrying military and logistical supplies crossing into Syria this evening, via Al-Walid crossing on the border with the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that a group of "military security" forces has arrested four members of the regime-backed "National Defence Forces" (NDF) in Al-Mayadeen city in…