February 2021

Damascus Countryside - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported that a civilian was shot dead by regime forces in Damascus countryside today, as he passed near a checkpoint of the regime's Republican Guard in the…

Aleppo Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that unidentified gunmen in a "Santa Fe" car, assassinate a civilian from Deir ez-Zour in Al-Yamani neighbourhood in al-Bab city in eastern Aleppo countryside.…

Aleppo Province- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that five people, including three unidentified, were killed and four others were injured, this evening, in surface-to-surface missiles fired by the Russian military…

SOHR sources say that the Russian base "Hamimim" fired surface-to-surface missiles towards Aleppo countryside, where an explosion was heard in the area of al-Sharashir in Jabla countryside. It is not yet known whether the explosion was…

Aleppo Governorate- Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that unidentified missiles hit oil refineries in Tarhin area in northern Aleppo countryside, resulting in injuries and fires in the area. According to some…

In 2019, Trump announced US troops would largely withdraw from Syria, with exception of a small force that would remain to 'protect' oil resources (AFP) US forces in Syria are not guarding oil fields as previously ordered by former…

Refugees in the Al-Hol camp in Syria’s north-eastern Hasakeh Governorate. (file) “An unknown number” of foreign nationals have died while being detained in squalid camps in Syria’s northeast, senior…

Tesla’s purchase of $1.5bn in bitcoin has raised the currency’s profile. Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images People in the world’s major conflict zones are turning to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin as soaring values and…

“When I see the people I’m reporting on, I can't just give up in despair.” I started my journalism work at the beginning of the revolution. I was still a university student in Latakia then. I believed in the cause of…

 Turkish president and leader of the Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during his party's group meeting at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara on Nov. 11, 2020. Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images.…