January 2021

SOHR sources have confirmed that reports of a tripartite meeting between the Syrian regime and representatives of Israel and the Russians at the base of Hamimim in Latakia countryside, to negotiate the normalization of relations between…

Syrians sift through a garbage dump near an oil field in the countryside of Malikiya in northeast Syria, on January 12, 2021. Credit: AFP Photo Plastic bottles, aluminium cans, clothes, sometimes spaghetti. When a tractor…

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that the camp administration is preparing to release 31 Syrian families from the camp, estimated at more than 99 people, most of them are residents from Al-Hasakeh and its countryside.…

*The writer is acting rector of the International Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Turkish-Kazakh University. ISTANBUL Not much attention was paid to Syria in 2020 as many other issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, the US elections,…

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud holds a press conferece at the end of the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council summit, Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 5, 2021. Photo by Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images. ALEPPO, Syria…

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:20 P.M.) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that Russia will not engage in clashes with the United States in Syria, stressing that Moscow calls on the American side not to use force against sites…

A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet is prepared for takeoff at the Russian military base of Hmeimim, Syria, on 26 September 2019. (Getty Images) Damascus, London – Asharq Al-Awsat Syrian and Israeli officials reportedly held a…

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that two unidentified men on a motorcycle threw a grenade at a patrol of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps, killing two people and wounding three others on the Deir ez-Zor-Palmyra road, where…

Syrian Observatory activists have reported seeing a new convoy affiliated with the International Coalition entering Syrian territory, comprising 40 trucks carrying military and logistical as well as oil trucks, crossing from the Kurdistan…

SOHR sources say that unknown persons tried yesterday evening to burn the headquarters of the Kurdish National Council in the city of Ain al-Arab "Kobane", by throwing a Molotov cocktail at the headquarters, and opening fire from machine…