Day: May 22, 2022

A hazy dust cloud whirled in the air as the OCHA convoy set off from Damascus for Homs.This was the first visit for Joyce Msuya, the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, since starting her role e…

COVID-19 vaccination campaign: what, why and how“I didn’t wish to take the vaccine only to protect myself. I got it to help keep everyone around me safe,” says Adnan, 59, while he receives his first jab of COVID-19 vaccine in Alnairab camp, more than 1…

SURVEILLANCE HIGHLIGHTS• Since the reporting of the first case of COVID-19 on 22 March 2020 and as of 14 May 2022, A total of 55,869 confirmed cases, including 3,150 associated death cases (CFR 5.6%), were reported in Syria.”• Out of 55,869 COVID-19 co…

SNHR has documented the extrajudicial killings of four civilians, by Unidentified parties, on Saturday, May 21, 2022.SNHR issues this daily brief report of the death toll of Syrian civilians who were killed, against all the tenets of international huma…

Four smugglers were killed and others were injured while trying to cross the border from Syria into the Kingdom of Jordan, with large quantities of drugs in their possession.The French Press Agency quoted an official in the General Command of the Armed…

Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Colonel Sayyad Khodai was shot dead Sunday outside his home by assailants on motorcycles, in a killing Iran blamed on …

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen discussed with Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Miqdad in Damascus today a number of issues related to the settlement of the Syrian crisis.Pedersen said in statements to the Syrian newspaper, Al-Watan: “The meetin…

TEHRAN — An unidentified member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported, giving only scant details about the attack.The two assailants shot the victim five times…

DAMASCUS — U.N. special envoy Geir Pedersen on Sunday welcomed a general amnesty aimed at freeing thousands of Syrians convicted on terrorism charges.President Bashar al-Assad has decreed several amnesties during the country’s devastating 11-year war, …