March 2021

Aleppo Province - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists have reported seeing Russian and Turkish forces running a new joint patrol, this morning, in Ain Al-Arab countryside (Kobani) in eastern Aleppo. The patrol which…

Women in war-ravaged Syria are being thrust into the role of provider in a way few had experienced previously. Severe economic troubles and not enough food for people to eat are propelling even more Syrian women to look for work…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the capital Damascus.Syrian Presidency Press Office / AFP - Getty Images file Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife have tested positive for Covid-19, the Syrian…

(CNN)New guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say people fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can safely visit with other vaccinated people and small groups of unvaccinated people in some…

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday met the father of Alan Kurdi, the boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach six years ago became an image of the suffering of Syrians trying to escape war. The pontiff, winding up a historic…

The Syria crisis could see at least 6 million more displacements over yet another decade if the conflict, insecurity and economic deterioration continue unabated, a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council warns today. Ten…

Oil tanks at an oil processing facility of Saudi Aramco, a Saudi Arabian state-owned oil and gas company, at the Abqaiq oil field. Stanislav Krasilnikov | TASS via Getty Images International benchmark …

A funeral was held for Ahmad al-Waki, a volunteer firefighter who died while responding to a massive fire in northwest Syria, which started after Russian and Syrian government missile strikes hit makeshift oil refineries on 5 March…

A southern Swedish court on Monday sentenced a woman to three years in prison for taking her 2-year-old son to Syria in 2014, to an area that was then controlled by the Islamic State group. The woman, who lived in the southern town of…

A U.S. Marine with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command, and a U.S. Army soldiers with 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, maintain security during a joint security patrol in…