March 2021

Idlib province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored, this afternoon, a violent explosion at a quarry near the "central prison", west of the city of Idlib, caused by bombs…

FILE - In this June 9, 2019 file photo, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan listens during a news conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Al Nahyan said Tuesday, March 9, 2021,…

Idlib province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored today a demonstration on the road of Idlib- Saraqeb in Idlib province, held by displaced people who were forced to flee due…

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, pictured in December. His office said he would isolate at home with his wife for two weeks.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and his…

Last summer a photograph of Syria’s First Lady circulated on social media. At the time, government troops in north-west Syria were battering the last pockets of rebel resistance to the regime. The picture showed Asma Assad,…

Displaced children in Syria and abroad cite discrimination, poverty as reasons for not envisioning a future in Syria, new report finds. The report comes as Syria marks 10 years since the beginning of its bloody war Hundreds…

Ein al-Basha, Jordan — Ammar Haj lives in a modest three-room basement apartment with his wife and five children. Every night they gather for a simple meal of lentils, rice and salad at their home outside the Jordanian capital…

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the war in Syria, which erupted out of Arab Spring protests that President Bashar Assad responded to with bloody military assaults. Children are the biggest casualties in a war that sparked the rise…

Deir ez-Zor province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: As life gradually returns to normal in areas where the Islamic State has wreaked havoc, east of the Euphrates. These areas need a lot of services and securing the necessities of…

Syrian children at a metal scrapyard on the outskirts of Maaret Misrin in Idlib province. Aid agencies say 2.4 million children are out of school 10 years since the conflict erupted. (AFP) The…