Saleh Ismail al-Shakkal, from Khsham in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, was shot dead on October 19, 2022, by gunmen who we’ve so far been unable to identify, in the desert of Ezba village in the northern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour govern…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — As protests rage at home, Iran’s theocratic government is flexing its military muscle abroad: Tehran has supplied drones to Russia that killed Ukrainian civilians, run drills in a border region with Azerbaijan and bombed K…

WASHINGTON — The Syrian government and Palestinian militant group Hamas publicly resumed ties this week after a decade of estrangement, a move experts believe could have significant regional implications.A high-ranking Hamas-led Palestinian delegation …

UNICEF delivered lifesaving health and water, hygiene, and sanitation supplies to Syria earlier this week to scale up efforts to halt the cholera outbreak.The supplies included acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) kits to support health facilities and communit…

LONDON — Staffers at the World Health Organization’s Syrian office have alleged that their boss mismanaged millions of dollars, plied government officials with gifts — including computers, gold coins and cars — and acted frivolously as COVID-19 swept t…

Current SituationAccording to the latest Epi data from WHO Syria, 75 deaths (case fatality rate 0.37%) and 20,014 suspected cases of cholera have been reported between 25 August and 15 October, of these 26% are children under 5 years old. The number of…

Syrian regime forces used a guided missile to bomb a car belonging to a family who were picking olives in an agricultural area adjacent to Majdaliya village in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, on October 20, 2022, injuring two children from t…

Hassan Ahmad Dahdouh, from Jeiroud city, north of Damascus Suburbs Governorate, was arrested by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) members on October 15, 2022, in a raid on his house in al-Mahmudiya neighborhood of Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo…

Ahmad Kamal al Din from Kafr Shalaya village south of Idlib governorate, a student at Aleppo ‘Free’ University’s Faculty of Political Science, was arrested by members of Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS) in Ariha city in Idlib governorate southern suburbs, o…

DAMASCUS, SYRIA — The Palestinian movement Hamas on Wednesday said it restored relations with the Syrian government after a visiting delegation met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.The Islamist group, which controls the Gaza Strip, was long o…

COVID-19, conflict, climate crises exacerbate setbacks for childhood and adolescent prospects, women’s rights   A new UN report shows that women’s and children’s health has

Seventy-seventh session Item 69 (b) of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective