The Bashar Assad regime’s practice of leasing out crop fields in Hama and Idlib through so-called auctions without the consent of their …
Rights group: Turkey water cuts worsen Syria cholera problem
Turkey isn’t ensuring an adequate water flow downstream into the Euphrates River in Syria, worsening a water crisis believed to have increased the spread of cholera in the war-torn country, a …
Assad regime’s property rights violations complicate return of displaced Syrians
Property owners’ requests to transfer the use of the properties to people they want or give power of attorney are mainly rejected. In a recent report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights underlined …
Monitors say 10 killed in Syria shelling of tent settlements
Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country’s conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding …
Syria: Government ‘cluster bombs’ kill at least 10 civilians, including children
Government rocket attacks targeting camps for displaced people in rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 10 civilians and wounded more than 77 on Sunday, according to both the Syrian Observatory …
Syria cholera outbreak worsened by regime, Turkey: HRW
Human Rights Watch Monday accused the government in Damascus and Turkey of exacerbating Syria’s deadly cholera outbreak by restricting aid and water-flow to the country’s Kurdish-held northeast.
At least 9 dead after Russian jets hit Syria’s rebel-held Idlib, rescuers say
Russian jets bombed camps near Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-held bastion, witnesses and rescuers said.
These Men Fled War in Syria to Ukraine. Now They’ve Fled Again.
Two men displaced from Syria as civil war gripped their country spent a decade living in limbo in Ukraine. But when war came to them again, they were forced to leave, eventually making their way to …
Russian, Iranian Diplomats Discuss Situation In Libya, Yemen, Syria
The situation in Yemen, Libya and Syria was the focus of a meeting between Iranian foreign minister’s senior advisor for special political affair …
Syrian perfumer needs ‘one whiff’ to mimic luxury brands
One whiff of a fragrance is all Syrian perfumer Mohammad al-Masri needs to recreate the scent of a luxury brand — without the label and for a fraction …