December 2020

UNITED NATIONS -- The global chemical weapons watchdog criticized Syria for failing to declare a chemical weapons production facility and respond to 18 other issues, while Russia accused the watchdog of conducting a “political crusade”…

Three former Syrian prisoners have come forward with shocking accounts of torture and despicable living standards in the Assad regime’s prisons, detailing the struggles of detainees within. The released men were hosted by the…

A file photo shows a truck passing the border at the Austrian-German border in Salzburg, Austria. (AP) BERLIN – Germany said it would allow deportation of Syrians to their war-ravaged homeland from 2021 if they…

Today, Syria is experiencing a serious impasse, where the country is living in a state of “no war, no peace”. There are no clear battles on the ground, nor is there the peace that would allow the reconstruction process to begin. Every…

Idlib province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that one member of HTS was killed and another injured, as unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle targeted a checkpoint affiliated with HTS near the town of Ain…

SOHR sources have monitored the regime-backed militiamen of "National Defence Forces" (NDF) launching a new security campaign against ISIS cells in Deir Ezzor desert. A large column of tens of vehicles was seen leaving Al-Mayadeen city with…

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that regime security services have released a new batch of over 35 detainees from Daraa province, who had been arrested in the past months and years, some arrested since the beginning of the…

Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have monitored tense calm prevailing in Jendires district in Afrin countryside in north-western Aleppo, after military police and other factions of the Turkish-backed…

Deir Ezzor Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have confirmed that an IED exploded today as a military vehicle of Syria Democratic Forces was passing on the road to Al-Omar oil field on the outskirts of Theban town…