January 2021

A local war monitor reported on Wednesday that the Kurdish Assayish security force further tightened up the blockade on government-controlled zones in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said…

3 members of the Syrian regime forces were killed in the explosion of an explosive device in the eastern countryside of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, today, Thursday. The Observatory said that an explosion…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the "Fourth Division" within the Syrian government forces, which is led by Maher al-Assad, brother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has begun to bring huge military reinforcements to…

At least 33 civilians were killed on Tuesday as Syrian security forces attacked the village of Abdita in the northwestern province of Idlib, a monitoring group said. At least 33 civilians were killed on Tuesday as Syrian security…

The Kurdish Assayish security force continues to tighten the siege on government-controlled areas in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, a war monitor reported on Wednesday. A number of families living in areas on the frontline…

ZURICH - Today, over 90 senior leadership figures worldwide called on U.S. President Joe Biden to lift those economic sanctions that kill, displace, impoverish and otherwise harm the civilian population of Syria, as called for by the UN…

A statue of a woman by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer, made out of leftover glass, rubble, and a broken clock marking the time (6:08 PM) of the mega explosion at the port of Beirut is placed opposite to the site of the blast in the…

Since the start of conflict in 2011, subsequent years of insecurity, widespread displacement, destruction of infrastructure, and economic woes have contributed to reduced levels of agricultural production and increased food…

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen announced Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, that the next round of talks toward revising the war-battered country's constitution will start in Geneva on Jan. 25 and urged the parties to move to…

Among the flurry of executive orders signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday was one ending the ban on travelers from several majority-Muslim countries, which was first issued by Donald Trump in January 2017. "Beyond…