par This Is Beirut, 15/08 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Assad Human Rights Refugees Syria
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) published a report on Thursday, accusing the Syrian regime of killing at least 43 people through torture and arresting at least 756 civilians. The SNHR found that the Syrian regime has significantly increased its targeting of citizens, as well as refugees and returnees in the areas under its ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/08 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza Iran IRGC Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Syria Western Coalition
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday said one of its colonels has died of wounds suffered in an air strike it blamed on the US-led coalition in Syria. Ahmadreza Afshari of the IRGC's "aerospace advisory forces" in Syria was "martyred because of injuries caused by aerial bombardment", Guards' chief Hossein Salami said in a ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/09 19:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Six people were wounded when a roadside blast hit a convoy transporting local officials including the governor in Syria's southern Daraa province on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. "Six people were lightly wounded" when a roadside "explosive device planted by a terrorist group" went off while the local officials were returning "from a work ...
05/09 03:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Twelve Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by an Al-Qaeda linked group in northwest Syria, according to a war monitoring organisation, the highest such death toll in the region this year. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "12 members of the regime forces, including an officer, were killed following suicide attacks ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/09 15:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Deir Ezzor Drone Strikes iraq Pro-Iran Groups Syria
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), pro-Iranian groups operating along the Syria-Iraq border are on high alert after an unidentified drone targeted a truck near one of their headquarters on Thursday, close to the town of Boukamal in the Deir Ezzor countryside. The attack resulted in three casualties: a Syrian ...
par Marie de La Roche Saint-André, 07/09 15:20 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
For several months, Syria and Turkey have been making statements in favor of normalizing their diplomatic relations. In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that he could invite Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "at any time" to begin talks to restore relations. At the end of August, in a speech before the People's Assembly, Assad ...
09/09 10:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At least 16 people were killed and 36 were wounded on Monday in a series of “Israeli strikes” on military sites in central Syria, announced the official Sana agency, with an NGO reporting a higher death toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), based in the UK but with an extensive network of sources in the war-torn country, put ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 15/09 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Neither Israel nor Syria has confirmed nor denied Western reports of a landing operation carried out by Israeli special forces in Masyaf, Syria. The operation allegedly targeted the Scientific Studies and Research Center facilities during the night of September 8-9. However, residents in the Tartous region reported hearing helicopters flying ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/09 14:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Brigades iraq Israeli Strike Syria
A militant from Iraq's Hezbollah Brigades, an armed group, was killed Friday in a strike targeting pro-Iran factions in Syria, a group member told AFP, blaming Israel for the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said a member of the Hezbollah Brigades was killed but was unable to verify the strike itself. The ...
21/09 16:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Bashar Al-Assad Syria Turkey UN UN General Assembly United Nations
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he requested a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, in a bid to "normalize" relations between their countries. The two countries severed all official relations in 2011, following the start of the Syrian ...
par gdeveloper, 26/09 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Golan Heights Iran Iran Proxies SOHR Syria Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Thursday denied claims that 40,000 Iran-backed militiamen had entered the Golan Heights from the Syrian borders. Israeli army officials had claimed a day earlier that Iran was moving troops into Lebanon, according to a Haaretz report. Some Israeli media outlets reported that around 40,000 fighters ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/10 04:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
As Israel announced its ground incursion on Lebanon, Syria's official news agency SANA said the country's air defense systems were intercepting "hostile targets" in the Damascus area. Syrian state media said three civilians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Damascus early Tuesday and nine others were wounded, citing a military source. "The ...
