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UN decries barrel bomb assault in rebel-held northwest Syria

Schools, health facilities and residential areas have been hit by the worst barrel bombing campaign in rebel-held northwestern Syria in 15 months, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator Panos Moumtzis told Reuters Thursday. Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and...

Regime attacks kill 5 in N. Syria’s de-escalation zones

Five civilians were killed in attacks by Assad regime forces on residential areas located inside northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, local sources said Thursday. Overnight airstrikes and artillery attacks targeted the villages of Kansafra, Termela, Bsekla Has and Abdin in Idlib...

459 arbitrary arrests documented in April 2019

The Syrin Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday it had documented more than 459 cases of arbitrary arrests in April, including 272 cases of enforced disappearance. Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances have been amongst the most common and widespread violations since the...