March 2021

Areas of Deir ez-Zor countryside continue to suffer from the scarcity and pollution of drinking water, and the suffering of people in obtaining their needs in different ways.  In this context, reliable sources have informed SOHR that the…

A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria appears to have sparked fires across a large area where oil tankers are normally parked, satellite images show. Syrian…

Members of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) extinguish a fire which reportedly erupted after a bombardment from unknown sources of makeshift oil refining installations in the Tarhin area, near the Turkish-controlled city of al-Bab…

Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in northern Syria killed four people and injured more than 20 others, a war monitor said on Saturday (March 6). The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a series of strikes launched from…

Since the HTS-backed "Salvation Government" issued a law, in June 2020, banning treatment in Syrian pound and ordering dealing only with the Turkish currency in areas under its control in Idlib and parts of Aleppo, following the…

Syrian civilians in regime-controlled areas are now struggling with a critical humanitarian situation, as it is the case across the entire Syrian geography, at a time when successive crises and economic malaise hitting Damascus, Aleppo, the…

The successive incidents at Al-Hawl camp in the far south-east region of Al-Hasakah are now a unrefuted evidence of the chaos recently unleashed by the Islamic State in Syria. Al-Hawl refugee camp has become more like a “mini-state” hosting…

Hama Governorate - Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have monitored two consecutive explosions in Wadi al-Azeeb area in the eastern countryside of Hama, as a result of old ordnance left over from the war, believed to be…

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is accused of a wide range of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Photograph: Sana/AFP/Getty Images Ten years after it began, Syria’s horrific civil war…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) criticized President Biden's authorization of U.S. airstrikes in Syria last Thursday, stating that they “clearly” violated the Constitution and international law. The U.S. military hit facilities used by…