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Back To School Season, But No School

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With the start of the new school year in Syria for 2019-2020, more than 2 million Syrian children (2.1 million) of school age are still out of school and do not receive basic and intermediate education. The Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have turned many school buildings into rubble, while others have […]

HTS kidnapped and tortured a medical doctor

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Dr. Othman al-Hasan, who works at “Shaheed Mohammed Bas Hospital” in Ma’aret Misrin in rural Idlib was kidnapped and beaten by an armed groups of HTS late last night. He was attacked and shot in the foot, before being referred to Bab Al-Hawa hospital for treatment – which wasn’t completed as he was kidnapped and […]

Syrian regime commits new massacre at Ma’arat al-Nu’man

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Aftermath the massacre of ma’arat al-Nu’man 28-8-2018 On Wednesday 28th August, regime warplanes targeted residential areas in Ma’arat al-Nu’man city in Idlib countryside with 12 missiles, killing 13 people, including 6 children and 2 women, and injuring 34 people, including 10 women and 6 children. The shelling also caused extensive damages to civilian homes and […]

Six years on the Eastern Ghouta massacre

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21-August-2019 On August 21st , 2013, Zamalka and Ain Tarma in Eastern Ghouta and Mo’adamiya in Western Ghouta were targeted with rockets loaded with chemical materials, killing about 1,400 people and injuring hundreds without different sorts of suffocation. This is the largest massacre in Syria since the beginning of the popular movement in 2011 till […]

Russian Warplanes attack a Civil Defence Centre in Idlib

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Civil Defence Centre in Kafranbel, Idlib province shortly after the Russian air raid A civil defence centre in Kafranbel, Idlib province, was the target of air strikes by the Russian war planes,  wounding 4 people including a CD volunteer and destroying the whole centre. A number of vehicles were also destroyed. Despite the intensive air strikes but […]

Statement on the Dangerous Situation in north eastern Syria

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Civilians from Deir ez-Zor flee the attacks of SDF The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) strongly condemns the barbaric killings and displacement carried out by the militias of the so-called “Syria Democratic Forces” (SDF) supported by the international coalition and its war machine against defenceless civilians, women, children and the elderly in the provinces of […]

The anniversary of the Hama massacre: The blood still wet, the crimes never forgotten, and the perpetrators still at large

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2nd-Feb-2019 Today marks the anniversary of the 1982 massacre of Hama, in which an estimated thirty thousand people were killed according to the documentation of the Syrian Human Rights Committee. The massacre of Hama bore the signature of the two brothers Hafez and Rifat al-Assad, who chose it as a motto for their bloodthirsty history […]

Massacre in the popular Market of Afrin

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The popular market in Afrin After the massacre A car bomb exploded in the popular market near Kawa roundabout, in the city of Afrin in Aleppo countryside, killing eight people and injuring over 15 others. Olive Branch of PYG claimed responsibility for the attack.  The identified victims are: Berkhdan Abdul Fattah Ali Zakaria Taha Shaker […]

On the International Human Rights Day: Violations have not stopped and accountability has not begun yet!

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10-December-2018 For the eighth year in a row, serious human rights violations continue in Syria, which have so far killed some 700,000 Syrians, displaced about half of the Syrians from their homes, including six million outside Syria, destroyed about one million homes, and a large proportion of vital institutions such as schools, hospitals and public […]