February 2021

Aleppo Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported an explosion in the area of Jandiras, which is controlled by Turkish forces and proxy factions in Afrin countryside in north-west Aleppo. The explosion…

Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that tense calm continues in the city of Afrin, north-west of Aleppo, coinciding with a state of alertness by both "Al-Jabha Al-Shamiya" and "Jaysh Islam" factions, as…

SOHR sources from rural al-Hasakeh say that Russian military vehicles carrying soldiers and officers, have arrived in the area of Kesra in al-Hasakeh countryside and entered the areas held by Turkish-backed factions in Alouk in…

Iran continues strengthening its presence in Syrian territory, consolidating its influence in regime-controlled areas, by recruiting pro-regime militiamen and civilians into pro-Iranian militias. SOHR sources have reported that the Iranian…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights continues monitoring and tracking the spread of the coronavirus in the Syrian provinces in the areas controlled by the Syrian regime. Reliable medical sources in the Syrian regime-held areas have…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored, in the early hours of the morning, renewed rocket attacks by regime forces on areas in rural Hama and Idlib, targeting with rocket-propelled grenades places in Al-Fatira, Safohin,…

Idlib province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored, at midnight yesterday, an explosion in the town of Al-Foua, located in the eastern countryside of Idlib, caused by an IED exploded…

SOHR activists say that a Russian executed airstrikes using high-explosive missiles, targeting the perimeter of Idlib central prison, west of Idlib city. Meanwhile, a drone was seen flying over the area, but no casualties have been reported…

For the Maronite Archbishop of Damascus, Msgr. Samir Nassar, today the scenario is "dominated by chaos". Economic devastation adds to the war. Victims, displaced people, missing people, destroyed buildings are still open wounds. The…

Rights groups use machine learning to sort through a mammoth trove of video, photo and other evidence BERLIN—By most accounts, the Syrian conflict has been the most documented war in history. But that…