News Syria

After a short-lived ceasefire, dictator Bashar al-Assad’s notorious security forces have resumed attacks on the Syrian city of Daraa, which continues to suffer from the debilitating effects of the decade-long civil war.

Embittered Turkish citizens and Syrian refugees feel strain as reported racially aggravated incident flares tensions.

It comes as no surprise that the farcical election had been rejected even before it took place. Western nations including the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy, and others have declared the vote to be “neither free nor fair”.

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.