December 2020

In late 2019, Donald Trump said repeatedly that Washington would be “keeping” the oil resources of northeastern Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad sarcastically praised Trump over the remarks, suggesting the US president had revealed…

Wolfgang Kaleck, a 60-year-old human rights lawyer with large blue eyes and a wave of sandy brown hair, smiles a lot for someone who has spent his life litigating some of the world’s worst atrocities. “The stories you…

Early last week, Iraqi officials announced that an airstrike had killed a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as he entered Syria from Iraq on November 29 with a consignment of weapons. The news came just days after…

A French extremist wanted on an Interpol "red notice" has been caught by Turkish security forces trying to enter Turkey from Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said Monday. The individual known by the initials C.G. was detained while…

For four months in 2017, an American-led coalition in Syria dropped some ten thousand bombs on Raqqa, the densely populated capital of the Islamic State. Nearly eighty per cent of the city, which has a population of three…

Al-Raqqah province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored this evening exchange of fire between the SDF and Turkish-backed factions, coinciding with an infiltration attempt by…

Quneitra Governorate- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown assailants exploded near a building belonging to the Air-Force Intelligence branch and recruitment…

Deir ez-Zor province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have told SOHR that members of the Islamic State informed, this morning, workers of the primitive oil refineries in the town of Al-Tayana in Deir ez-Zor…

SOHR activists say that two members of the regime-backed "National Defense Forces" were killed today in an ambush by Islamic State cells in al-Masrab desert in southern countryside of Deir al-Zour.  Meanwhile, fierce battles continue…