January 2021

Idlib Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have documented the death of a Dutch jihadist affected by the injury he sustained in today's explosion in an arms store in Idlib city. Accordingly, the number of people…

The European Council has added Faisal Mekdad to the list of persons subject to EU restrictive measures on Syria, following his recent appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs. This decision brings to 289 the total number of…

The map of the Arab Levant is a map of “arena,” one where countries’ territory is merely an amalgamation of battlefronts and conflicting axes: the Lebanese arena, the Syrian arena, the Iraqi arena, and, not far away, there are the Libyan…

The two suspects have been in pretrial custody since their arrest in the summer of 2020 Two Syrian nationals will face trial in Germany over alleged affiliation to a terrorist group in their home country, Germany's…

FILE PHOTO: Motorists line up at a gasoline station as they wait to fuel up in Aleppo, Syria April 11, 2019. Picture taken April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki The sanction-hit country has over the past year faced months of gasoline and…

According to a media report, the majority of Germany's 16 states favor deporting Syrian nationals deemed to pose a risk to security in Germany. While states with conservative-led interior ministries are in favor of deportations in…

Response to the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged even robust healthcare systems in high-income countries. Syria, a country experiencing protracted conflict, has the largest internally-displaced population globally with most displaced…

Idlib Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: An unidentified man was found dead, this evening, in farmlands in the south of Ariha city in Idlib countryside. This development coincides with the escalating security chaos in areas…

SOHR sources say that regime security services arrested, in mid-January, a pro-regime media activist, the director of "Boq'at Do'a" local magazine, since he received threats after publishing reports of the customhouse's practices and…

The Iranian government announced on January 4 that it had resumed enriching uranium to 20 percent at its underground nuclear facility at Fordow, in a significant move that can shorten Iran’s “break-out time” – the time it would take to…