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March 2021
Aleppo | Turkish forces and their proxies shell Kurdish-held villages, amid clashes on frontlines of…
Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported that Turkish forces and their proxy factions have fired several shells on Sawghanka and Binah villages in Kurdish-controlled areas in Aleppo countryside.…
Third infiltration attempt in three days | Clashes between SDF and Turkish-backed factions on Ain…
SOHR sources have reported violent clashes, for the third consecutive day, with artillery and heavy machineguns on the frontlines of Sayda village in Ain Issa countryside in northern Al-Raqqah following an infiltration attempt by…
Security chaos in Turkish-controlled areas | IED explodes in residential neighbourhood in Afrin
Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported the exploded of an IED planted in car in Al-Mahmoudiyah neighbourhood, near Osama Ibn Zayd mosque, in Afrin city. No casualties have been reported.
The…
Known for its domination on crossings used for smuggling in Aleppo | Family holds women and…
Local sources have informed SOHR that an influential family in Awn Al-Dadat area is holding several people, including women and children, asking their relatives for large ransoms.
The sources have confirmed that the family is holding…
Responsible for killing 21 regime-backed militiamen | “Al-Ghayth Forces” blow up the…
Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources say that members of "Al-Ghayth Forces", a prominent military formation of the 4th Division, blew up the house of "Abu Tariq Al-Subaihi", the former opposition commander who…
IED attack | Explosion hits outdoors market in Al-Bab
Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported hearing an explosion in Al-Bab city which is under the control of Turkish-backed factions in eastern Aleppo, caused by the detonation of an IED by the…
Assassination | Unknown gunmen shoot dead local commander in Military Intelligence Branch in eastern…
Daraa Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported that unknown gunmen shot dead a commander of local factions working for the regime's Military Intelligence Branch in Al-Taybah town in the eastern countryside…
Syrian president decrees financial stimulus amid crisis
Syria Surging Poverty
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, Syrian men carry bags of bread on their heads while walking back to their homes in the once rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria. As…
Syrian War 10 Years On — Part 2: Counting the Losses in Idlib
ISTANBUL/IDLIB, SYRIA - Tasnim, 11, doesn’t remember life before the war, but she remembers losing an uncle, her grandmother, two cousins, beloved family friends, and now, she says, hope.
“I dreamt …