المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Syria Crisis Is Worsening, U.N. Relief Official Says

UNITED NATIONS — The top emergency relief official at the United Nations expressed new alarm on Tuesday at the humanitarian crisis caused by Syria’s civil war, telling the Security Council that despite some modest progress, both the…

Syria chemical weapons: Equipment needed says Mekdad

Syria's deputy foreign minister has requested money and equipment from the international community to help with efforts to remove chemical weapons from his country. Faisal Mekdad was speaking at a meeting of the Organization for the…

London backs war crimes assessment of Syria

LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday his government fully supports a U.N. assessment implicating Syrian officials in war crimes. Hague said he supported an assessment made Monday by U.N. High…

Italian coastguard reaches stricken migrant ship

The coastguard have reached a small boat packed with migrants adrift off the coast of southern Italy. They say about 120 Syrian migrants were picked up from the vessel, which had encountered rough seas. Large waves and strong winds…

Europe could feel the backlash from jihadist conflicts

This week Britain's House of Commons was told that a terrorist attack in Europe by jihadist fighters returning from Syria is "almost inevitable but may not happen for some time". The warning came from a leading terrorism expert and…

Syria: Government says Assad will not step down

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian government said on Wednesday that Western and Arab countries demanding that President Bashar Al-Assad step down should “wake up from their dreams,” Syria’s official news agency reported. The statement…

U.S. ship to join Syrian chemical weapons disposal operation

LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Some of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal will be neutralized aboard a U.S. military ship, the organization overseeing the disposal operation said. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the…

U.N. Warns of Lasting Harm to Syrian Refugee Children

GENEVA — Syria’s conflict is creating a generation of damaged children, the United Nations warned Friday in a report on the plight of more than a million children who are refugees in neighboring countries, many of them deprived of access…

Syria PM in Tehran ahead of Geneva meet

Tehran — Syria's prime minister arrived in Tehran Friday for talks with the leaders of close ally Iran ahead of a peace conference aimed at ending his country's civil war , the state broadcaster reported. During his three-day stay, Wael…

Syrian army ups attacks ahead of talks

DAMASCUS/BEIRUT: Syrian troops recaptured the strategic town of Deir Atiyeh Thursday, less than a week after losing it, as fighting raged in the area ahead of planned peace talks in January. The seizure of Deir Atiyeh, on the…

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