December 2020

Eight people died of coronavirus in north-western Syria region today, bringing the total number of deaths to 239.   Meanwhile, health authorities recorded 161 new infection cases with COVID-19 in north-west Syria region today. According…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Residents found a decomposed body of an unidentified person, believed to be a young man, in Inkhil city in the northern countryside of Daraa. It is suggested that the person died nearly…

 SOHR sources have reported artillery fire by Turkish-backed factions on Mar'naz and Aqlamiyyah villages of Sharra district in Afrin countryside, which are under the control of Kurdish forces in northern Aleppo. No casualties have been…

Syrian Observatory activists have documented the death of a regime soldier and injury of another one, after being shot by members of opposition factions on Al-Ruwayha frontline in southern Idlib.   On the other hand, SOHR sources…

The Interior Ministry has announced that Syrians convicted of serious crimes can be deported for the first time since 2012. The change, from January, won't affect the vast majority of refugees who have made Germany home. Germany has…

The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the US domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East…

The number of Christians in Iraq is estimated to have fallen to 400,000, from 1.5 million in 2003 Zaid AL-OBEIDI AFP Pope Francis on Thursday defended the benefits of the "Christian presence" in Syria and Iraq, calling on the…

An MSF nurse talks with a boy at a mobile clinic in a camp for displaced people in northwestern Syria. The child brings in a young family member for a medical consultation. Syria 2020 © Omar Haj Kadour/MSF Doctors Without…

Kinana al-Bunni, 37, a female taxi driver, exercises in Damascus, Syria October 3, 2020. Pictures of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad and his father late former president Hafez al-Assad, are seen in the background. Picture taken October…