Russian jets said to step up strikes on Syrian rebel enclave
Amman, JordanReuters Russian jets bombed villages and towns near the north-western Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding dozens in a major flare-up of violence in the country’s last opposition stronghold, witnesses and rescuers said. War planes flying at high altitude, which tracking centres said were Russian Sukhoi jets, […]
Essay: Syria’s earthquake survivors struggle in a disaster made far worse by civil war, bombed-out hospitals and currency collapse
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based academic ORA SZEKLEY says the consequences of the earthquake in Syria can be explained in part by the country’s devastating civil war…
Aid workers in Syria fear cholera spread if cross-border support halted
Beirut, Lebanon/Istanbul, Turkey Reuters Humanitarian workers operating in the last opposition-held part of Syria fear a cholera outbreak sweeping the region will deepen further if the United Nations is forced to stop aid deliveries across the border from Turkey. The area’s four million people live in dire conditions and rely heavily on the food and […]
At least nine dead after Russian jets hit Syria’s rebel-held Idlib, rescuers say
Amman, JordanReuters Russian jets bombed camps near Syria’s north-western 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. War planes flying at high altitude, aided by Syrian army artillery, also dropped bombs on forests near the makeshift camps west of […]
In Syria, mounting cholera cases pose threat across frontlines
Idlib/Hasaka, SyriaReuters A cholera outbreak that has claimed at least 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country’s 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced who lack running water or sewage systems. First linked to contaminated water near the Euphrates river, the outbreak has now spread across the fractured […]
Postcards: Life in ruins – ancient sites shelter Syria’s displaced
KHALIL ASHAWI, of Reuters, reports from among some of those displaced in Syria…
Syrian hospital hit in artillery attacks on Afrin, at least 13 killed
Idlib, Syria Reuters At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources and Turkey’s government said. The first attack struck a residential area, while the second hit a hospital shortly afterwards, civil defence sources said. Video footage on […]
ESSAY: THE WORST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS OF THE 21ST CENTURY – FIVE QUESTIONS ON SYRIA ANSWERED
SHELLEY INGLIS, executive director of the University of Dayton Human Rights Center in the US – in an article first published on The Conversation, provides some answers about the ongoing crisis in Syria…
Syrian forces consolidate control of Aleppo, air strikes under way
Beirut/Amman, JordanReuters The Syrian army said on Monday it had taken full control of dozens of towns in Aleppo’s northwestern countryside and it would press on with its campaign to wipe out militant groups “wherever they are found”. The advances were made after President Bashar al-Assad’s forces drove insurgents from the M5 highway linking Aleppo […]
Five children under 15 among 12 killed in bombing of Christian village in Syria
World Watch Monitor The children were still playing in the streets on Friday night. Then the rebels bombed the village. On Saturday, they should have celebrated a wedding in Mhardeh, a Christian village in northwest Syria. Instead they had to carry 10 of their own to the grave; two more later died in hospital. The […]