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Despite giving assurances that it will cease hostilities, Russia has been responsible for coordinating numerous aerial attacks since June in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib.

A civilian hospital in the northern city of Afrin was bombed during a series of artillery strikes. A number of civilians, including children, were killed during the indiscriminate bombing of the opposition-held area.

A recent video by aid worker Tox Sharif that has been widely shared on social media describes how men from outside Syria were using apps to sexually exploit vulnerable, desperate, and destitute Syrian women in exchange for cryptocurrency.

It is with deep sadness that we inform our readers that the internationally respected scholar of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis), Shaykh Mohammed ʻAli al-Ṣābūnī, has passed to meet his Lord (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), may Allāh have mercy upon him.

In what is being described as a rare and “historic” victory, 44-year-old Eyad al-Gharib has finally been handed a jail term.

’Israel’ reportedly spent $1.2m on COVID jabs for Syrian regime as a bargaining chip to facilitate prisoner swap.

According to a global NGO, COVID-19 “continues to spiral out of control” in the north-west of Syria, with cases multiplying at an alarming pace.

“The 55-page report by the ADMSP details how prison guards, judges, members of the armed forces, and various central government officials have profited from the lucrative ‘business’ of forcing families to pay, not in order to actually see their detained family members, but merely to find out information about their situation.”

Russian airstrikes on the city of Idlib have killed dozens of Syrians.

Three NGOs have submitted a criminal complaint to the German courts over the use of chemical weapons and sarin gas attacks in Syria by the criminal Assad regime.