Amid increasing tensions between Israel and Palestinians, U.S. President Joe Biden hosted King Abdullah II of Jordan for a private lunch Thursday, the second White House meeting between the leaders in less than a year and the third since Biden took off…

Global OverviewCrisisWatch warns of one conflict risk alert in February.Hundreds of Sudan-based rebels entered the Central African Republic, fuelling fears of large-scale fighting and regional destabilisation.Our monthly conflict tracker highlights eig…

On February 1, 2023, a rainstorm and heavy snowfall hit multiple areas in the suburbs of Idlib and Aleppo, as well as damaging dozens of tents in 49 IDP camps across northwestern Syria to varying degrees. In additions, torrents of rainwater formed in t…

I. Background and Methodology**Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances have been amongst the most widespread violations since the earliest days of the popular uprising for democracy in Syria in March 2011. As the most common and pervasive regime …

HIGHLIGHTSP.01 Syria humanitarian needs overview 2023P.02 Update on choleraP.03 Update on Syria Humanitarian Fund (SHF)P.04 Syria’s economic decline and fuel shortageP.06 Alouk water station and alternative solutionsP.07 Schools and kindergartens suspe…

Damascus, SANA- “Syria does not recognize the OPCW (Investigation and Identification Team), nor its previous and subsequent reports, because it was established based on pressure exerted by the United States, France and Britain for special purposes in c…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Joint Market Monitoring Initiative (JMMI) was developed by the Cash Working Group, after the CWG identified that monitoring markets on a regular basis in Syria was key to understanding how markets function and cope with the challenges brought by th…

The SRTF announces the successful delivery of a total of around 2,100 MT of Syrian varieties of hard wheat seeds to over 4,200 farmers farming over 8,360 hectares as part of its ongoing support for Syrian farmers in three governorates.The farmers have …