IntroductionLebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita in the world, with estimates placing the number of Syrian refugees within its borders at 1.5 million. While the international community has shifted its focus towa…

Yemen: Demonstrations in Hadramawt highlight tensions between the Southern Transitional Council and IslahIn the Hadramawt valley region, a wave of demonstrations started on 7 December and lasted throughout the whole month. The protest campaign was trig…

A 50-year-old female schoolteacher named Yusra Ahmad al-Abd al-Muhsen, from al-Arfi neighborhood in Deir Ez-Zour city, was killed on January 30, 2023, by an explosion whose source we have not yet been able to identify inside her home in al-Joura neighb…

On January 28, 2023, a 28-year-old woman named Shadiya al-Ali and a 15-year-old girl named Duaa al-Hasan, from al-Ibeidat village in the eastern suburbs of Aleppo governorate were arrested by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) members in raids on their hom…

The past year saw little progress in tackling global corruption due to greater violence and insecurity, according to the organization Transparency International’s “Corruption Perceptions Index 2022.” However, there are some encouraging signs that corru…

Ali Mohammad al-Shehabi, a man from al-Bab city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was shot dead on February 1, 2023, by gunmen we have not yet been able to identify, in a drive-by shooting from a passing car in the eastern neighborhood of …

Eleven Syrian soldiers were killed in the northwest part of the country during separate attacks carried out by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group — known as HTS — on Wednesday, a war monitor reported.”HTS fired shells and rockets at a Syrian milit…