January 2021

A day after a bomb blast tore through buses transporting evacuees outside Aleppo, a monitoring group said the death toll had climbed to at least 126. Sixty-eight of the 109 evacuees killed were children, the Syrian…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Monday claimed responsibility for the Friday assassinations of two city council officials in northeast Syria’s Hasaka province, the group published on their Telegram…

Two women serving as officials in Hasaka canton were found shot dead on Friday night, January 22, in al-Dashisha district after being kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the same evening. The two women were named as Hind Latif Al…

The Syrian Observatory said that 12 soldiers from the government forces were killed after the targeting of a military bus by ISIS mercenaries in the Shuala desert in Deir Ezzor countryside, and after that the government forces brought…

A girl and a boy stand next to their tent, with their feet submerged in water, after heavy rainfall over five days in Northwest Syria caused flooding in the camp. Nearly 600 families live in this camp in northern Idlib, only five…

UN-backed talks aimed at revising the constitution involve delegations from Syrian gov’t, opposition and civil society. Former UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura meets with foreign ministers from Russia, Sergey Lavrov;…

During his four years in office, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly promised to get the United States out of the nation-building business. Long-term U.S. efforts to reconstruct and stabilize postconflict societies, he…

President Biden comes into office with a wealth of experience in foreign policy and a foreign policy team that is knowledgeable about the Middle East and world affairs. These are all good signs for the new administration and its ability to…

 “Children in Syria continue to bear the brunt of the crisis that will be marked by a grim milestone of ten years in March this year.  The education system in Syria is overstretched, underfunded, fragmented and unable to provide safe,…

Syrian refugees salvage belongings from the wreckage of their shelters at a camp in the northern Lebanese town of Bhanine that was set on fire Dec. 27 following a fight between camp residents and a local family. (Ibrahim…