December 2020

A town in northern Syria has increasingly been under attack from rebel groups backed by Turkey amid fears of a new Turkish offensive into the region.   On Sunday, Syrian rebel fighters supported by the Turkish military carried out…

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that a member of the regime-backed "National Defence Forces" (NDF) known by his initials as M.S. was arrested yesterday for "raping and killing a girl" in Halfaya city on Wednesday,…

It was back in August of this year that the rumours started to circulate in rebel-held areas of northern Syria: there was well-paid work to be had overseas. "I had a friend who told me that there is a very good job you can…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) confirmed that while Libya is witnessing a new political process following the Libyan-Libyan agreement, the issue of mercenaries is returning to the fore again. SOHR said in a statement that…

Nine Iranian-backed fighters were killed by Islamic State (IS) militants who attacked an Iranian military position in eastern Syria on Thursday, a war monitor reported. The attack occurred in the Jweif area in the desert region of the city…

The number of individuals deported from Germany drops from year to year The ban on deportation, which has been regularly renewed since 2012, is intended to protect Syrians in Germany from being forcibly returned to the…

Turkey-backed rebels clashed with Kurdish fighters in the northern province of Raqqa on Friday, in the latest escalation between both sides in that part of the country. The clashes erupted when Turkey-backed rebels attempted to infiltrate…

Syrian refugees in Jordan face a surging COVID-19 crisis on top of unemployment, barriers to accessing education, and other daunting challenges. December 11, 2020 Photo: Kaity Kawar/IRC …

A boy enters a tent at the Batinta camp for the internally displaced, after heavy rainfall in the north of Syria's northwestern Idlib province, Nov. 26, 2020. Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images. IDLIB, Syria —…

The drop in Saudi expat jobs has been lower than estimated at 3.8 percent. Expats might not flee the Gulf in the numbers predicted earlier as economies fare better than expected during the pandemic, according to…