المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Chemical watchdog warns of Syria delay

The international chemical weapons watchdog warned on Sunday that the transportation of Syria’s chemical arsenal out of the country could be delayed by a few days due to technical difficulties. A roadmap that was adopted earlier this…

Syria: new massacre unfolds in Nabk

At least 40 bodies of men, women and children were discovered on Saturday in the Syrian town of al-Nabk, a Damascus suburb, in an apparent new massacre, the Syrian Revolutionary Council reported, following a heavy shelling campaign by the…

British FM says Assad must quit for settlement in Syria

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Friday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must stand down to allow for any peaceful settlement to the 33-month-old conflict in his country. “We have always been very clear that a…

Missing Syrian nuns appear in video, saying they are well

(Reuters) - A group of nuns who went missing in Syria after Islamist fighters captured a Christian village this week have appeared in a video, saying they are in good health and denying that they had been kidnapped. The nuns were taken…

Syrians targeted Israeli patrol on Golan with bomb: Israel

(Reuters) - The Israeli army said on Saturday that an Israeli military vehicle had been damaged by a bomb set off by Syrians on frontier of the occupied Golan Heights. The attack on Friday was thought to be the first targeted bombing…

EU says foreign Syria fighters from the bloc are up to 2,000

Joelle Milquet said Thursday after a meeting involving a dozen nations that the total was "estimated at, more or less, between 1,500 and 2,000." She did not say how she got that number. Milquet has been pushing for a united front within…

Hundreds of British jihadists in Syria

More than 300 Britons are fighting with jihadist groups in Syria, raising concern that they will return trained in the latest terrorist techniques. Syria is considered within Whitehall as a greater threat to national security than…

Syrian rebels turn homes into weapons factories

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Their bomb-making begins in jam jars and their weapons are secretly assembled using household products, car parts and scrap metal. With Western countries reluctant to aid Syria's opposition, a cottage industry has sprung…

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