December 2020

Al-Raqqah Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported a violent attack by Turkish-backed factions, backed by intensive Turkish artillery fire, on Jahbal and Mushayrifah villages in the eastern countryside of…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored Turkish forces and their proxy factions, bringing in military reinforcement to the villages of Abu Kharza, Salloum and Rummana, opposite the villages of Al-Hushan and Al-Khalidiya,…

Deir ez-Zor province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that ISIS cells targeted the perimeter of the American base in the Al-Omar oil field. The shells were fired from a…

Deir ez-Zor province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that unknown persons fired several mortars at the U.S. base in "al-Omar oil field" in Deir ez-Zor countryside this evening. Meanwhile, the U.S. forces and the…

In late 2019, a new virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and started to spread worldwide, paralyzing life and ravaging the livelihoods of millions of people. According to official statistics, over 74 million people across the world…

When Allam Jebbo and his wife Fatima El Hussein fled Syria for Canada via Lebanon, they had one thing in their minds: moving to a safe place where their children could go to school. The family was sponsored by the Canadian government after…

Thank you very much indeed, Mr. President. I will focus today on five areas: first, COVID-19; second, the humanitarian impact of the economic crisis; third, protection of civilians; fourth, humanitarian access; and lastly, our…

As the end of another year of war looms, “families in Syria remain without respite after almost a decade of conflict”, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Wednesday. Speaking…

“One day, we’ll go, and you’ll see for yourselves,” my father told us. His thin bottom lip sucked up, almost in a pout, and his eyes stared across an ocean and a sea. We were seated on the living room floor of a small Côte-Saint-Luc…