January 2021

Idlib Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory activists have monitored an armed attack by unidentified gunmen, but believed to be ISIS cells, on checkpoint of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham between Qah and Deir Hassan…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that fierce clashes are underway since the early hours of Sunday morning in Tafas city in the western countryside of Daraa, after a military group of…

Regime forces shelled, in the early hours of Sunday morning, positions in Al-Faterah, Sfuhen, Kansafrah, Fulaifel, the surrounding areas of Bayanin in the southern countryside of Idlib, and the surrounding areas of Qulaydin and Al-Ankawi in…

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing a new Turkish military column of nearly 15 vehicles carrying military and logistical supplies crossing into the Syrian territory, via Kafr Lusin border crossing on the border with Iskenderun…

Internally displaced Syrian children walk in a mud near tents, in northern Aleppo countryside, Syria, on January 20, 2021. (REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano) Geir Pederson wants enhanced…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is leading hard-liners in smearing former White House official Rob Malley. Biden’s response could be a key sign about his foreign policy. President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy aides have…

Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have told SOHR that the regime-backed 4th Division have imposed several conditions on the "Central Committee" of Daraa's western sector in order to avoid storming Tafas…

image captionYemen's Houthi movement denounced the Trump administration's decision to designate it a global terrorist group "Folks, it's a time of testing." So said America's new president in Wednesday's inauguration speech…

Libya entered 2020 in midst of full-blown war between rival GNA and Haftar's National Libyan Army (AFP/File photo) Russia-backed Wagner Group mercenaries are digging an enormous trench in war-torn Libya, potentially…

DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFPChildren gesture as US troops patrol in their military vehicles on the roads of the Syrian town of al-Jawadiyah and meet the inhabitants, in the northeastern Hasakeh province, near the border with Turkey, on…