February 2021

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored today a new round of airstrikes by Russian fighter jets on the Syrian desert, where four Russian jets consecutively executed at least 40 airstrikes on ISIS positions in the…

SOHR sources from Al-Hasakah countryside say that U.S. forces have redeployed today, east of Hasaka, as they emptied their posts in the silos of Tal Allou in the area of Al-Yarabiya, and moved to the military base they established months…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored a state of confusion in the Turkish-held city of Azaz in northern countryside of Aleppo on the border with Turkey, as the internationally recognized Syrian flag appeared on a placard…

Idlib-based reporter was arrested six months ago after raising concerns about alleged torture of prisoners by HTS Bilal Abdul Kareem has reported from opposition-held Syria since 2014 (Screengrab) A leading media freedom monitor…

The conflict in Syria has seen the convergence of multiple, sometimes opposing forces in the skies over a near-decade-long civil war that today threatens to draw the United States' foreign policy resources back into the quagmire, one…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. counter-terrorism chief on Wednesday urged the repatriation of tens of thousands of women and children suspected of links to the Islamic State extremist group, warning that many are being radicalized in…

Lebanon (MNN) — More than 10 million people in five Middle Eastern countries require help to survive another day. UN officials say it is the highest level of need since the Syrian refugee crisis began in 2011. As Lebanon crumbles, Syrian…

The tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring has been an opportunity for some to declare the protests a failure – not least in the face of ongoing conflict in Syria, Libya, and Yemen. Looking back on those turbulent events, it’s become fairly…

BEIRUT (AP) — Late one night in 2015, a friend of Yasmen Almashan tagged a photo to her Facebook account. The notification ended a tormented wait for a sign from her brother, detained three years earlier by Syrian troops. The photo of…

Vladimir Putin visits Hmeimim Air Base in Syria on 11 September 2017 Russia has been developing the Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia in western Syria in preparation for it to receive strategic nuclear bombers as part of plans to…