Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Syria Permalink: http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2018&dlid=289230 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY President Bashar Assad has ruled the Syrian Arab Republic since 2000. The constitution mandates the primacy of Baath Party leaders in state institutions and society, and Assad and Baath party leaders dominate all three branches of government as an authoritarian regime. An uprising […]
Cost of Syria war destruction at $388 billion: UN
Seven years of relentless conflict in Syria have wreaked destruction that the United Nations said on Wednesday had cost the country close to a whopping $400 billion. The figure was released after a two-day meeting of more than 50 Syrian and international experts in neighbouring Lebanon, hosted by the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for […]
Chatham House: The Syrian Regime Is Using ISIS to Punish Civilians
30 July 2018 The latest terrorist attack in the southern city of Sweida has more to do with regime calculations than an ISIS resurgence. Dr Lina Khatib Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House Twitter 2018-07-30-Yarmouk.jpg Syrian pro-regime forces enter Yarmouk. Photo: Getty Images. Share The ISIS attack on Sweida in southern […]
DEMAND JUSTICE FOR SYRIANS KILLED BY US-LED COALITION
Amnesty International UK ‘We thought the forces who came to evict Daesh would know their business and would target Daesh and leave the civilians alone. We were naïve. By the time we had realised how dangerous it had become everywhere, it was too late; we were trapped.’ Rasha Badran, resident of Raqqa who lost almost […]
Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps
View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018. © Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – The de facto authorities of two areas of northeast Syria are unlawfully restricting the movement of people who escaped from Islamic State (also known as ISIS)-held areas in displacement camps, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities from the Syrian […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) : Syrians die of heat and disease in the south amongst them 12 children
World Health Organisation (WHO) asked to provide access to reach 210,000 displaced people who have fled the fighting in southern Syria and in urgent need to medicines and health services, and amongst them in need for evacuation. The organisation continued to say that with temperature rise to 45 Celsius, no less than 15 Syrians including […]
SYRIA 2017/2018 Amnesty International Annual Report
SYRIA 2017/2018 Parties to the armed conflict committed war crimes and other grave violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses with impunity. Government and allied forces, including Russia, carried out indiscriminate attacks and direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects using aerial and artillery bombing, including with chemical and other internationally banned weapons, […]
Russia Makes a Killing off its Military Support to Assad
Human Rights Watch Published in Atlantic Council Lama Fakih Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Divisionlamamfakih Show More Services Print Russia’s state-owned arms company has reaped enormous profits from its support to Bashar al-Assad’s government, which is responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria. EXPAND The office building of Rosoboronexport company in […]
Attacks on Healthcare in Syria Look Like a Bloody Strategy of Forced Displacement
Chatham House 23 February 2018 Dr Abdulkarim Ekzayez Academy Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security There is reason to suspect health facilities are being deliberately targeted in eastern Ghouta in a bid to weaken the resilience of the community to make it more amenable to evacuation. A damaged ambulance in front of Arbin Hospital in […]
Human Rights Watch Report 2018: Syria
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/syria The fight against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) emerged as the top priority for Syria’s multiple warring parties in 2017. The government, with the assistance of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, retook large parts of Central and Eastern Syria from ISIS while US-backed Syria Democratic Forces controlled Raqqa. The race to secure territory […]
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