The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights - The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

A decade ago this month, the Syrian civil war began when a group of teenagers—inspired by the Arab Spring then sweeping across the Middle East—scribbled graffiti on a school wall in the southern city of Deraa. Addressing…

BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria’s northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting even as government forces continued their…

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels downed a warplane over the Damascus provincial town of Hammuriyeh on Wednesday, shortly after an air strike killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more there, a watchdog and…

“Victory” is the word used by Syria’s pro-regime media to mark President Bashar al-Assad’s survival of the most brutal war of the 21st century, which on March 11 will have blazed for a decade. President Assad made no compromise…

U.S. Special Operations forces believe they killed ISIS’ “second in command” in an operation inside Syria, according to a senior defense official. Haji Imam, whose real name is said to be Abd ar-Rahman Mustafa…

Idlib Province - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that a military force belonging to the HTS arrested today two people from the jihadist organization "Huras al-Din", as part of the HTS' ongoing security…

SOHR sources from the area of Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, say that an altercation took place at the Ain Issa checkpoint of the military police, which evolved into a hand-to-hand fight during the last hours, between the members of the…

ICRC survey of 1,400 Syrians highlights costs for those aged 18 to 25 of war that has killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions. Nearly half of young Syrians lost their income because of the conflict and almost eight…

A bipartisan resolution has been submitted by a group of high-ranking senators, calling for a permanent US policy to maintain humanitarian support for the Syrian people while holding the Assad regime accountable for war crimes.…

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad—along with his Russian and Iranian backers—is responsible for the greatest human rights atrocity since World War II. History has shown us the ugly face of genocide time and again, from the Holocaust…