The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) documented the killing of 988 people in September 2017, including 191 children, 124 women, and 13 that died under torture. The Syrian regime, Iranian militias, and foreign militias sponsored by Iran were responsible for the killing of 550 people, whilst Russian bombing killed 219 people and bombing of the […]
Scorched Land and Dangerous Crimes: Two Years of Russian Involvement in Syria
Russia’s involvement in the Syrian conflict which began two years ago today, has created a turning point in the numbers of those killed on the ground and in human rights violations, which has transformed and surpassed the previous violations on a totally different level. Since day one, Russia has implemented a “Scorched Land” policy in […]
Syria Six Years On: Continuous Violations and Absent Justice
Six years ago, popular protests of an unprecedented nature erupted across Syria. This took place after approximately half a century of emergency rule in which all forms of participation in public life outside the control of the state was halted, including political parties and organisations as well as NGOs. Syria was a closed state in […]
Iranian Massacre Against Displaced from Aleppo
Iranian, Lebanese and Iraqi militias summarily executed 14 displaced people from among the 800 displaced people that were on a convoy stopped at ‘Uqdat al-Ramousah, and which had been on its way from the besieged districts of eastern Aleppo to rural western Aleppo as part of an agreement reached with Russia. According to Iranian websites, […]
On the International Day of Human Rights: International Failure to Stop Obvious Crimes
The Syrian crisis is close to folding its sixth year, having achieved unprecedented levels of crime committed by state apparatus, whether Syrian, Russian, or Iranian, or the entities which work under the care and protection of these states, such as Iranian, Lebanese, Iraqi and Afghani militias. In parallel to the state crimes organised by the […]
Relief Enters Madaya and al-Fou’ah
Container trucks full of relief materials have entered the besieged village of Madaya in rural Damascus, at the same time in which relief vehicles entered the village of al-Fou’ah in rural Idlib. Relief assistance such as this has not entered Madaya in at least seventy days. It is expected that the relief entering the villages […]
War Criminal Mohammed Naseef Dies
The retired Major General and assistant vice president Mohammed Naseef died in Damascus today, aged 85 years old. During his lifetime, Naseef presided over several of the security apparatus’, the most prominent of which was the Internal Branch 251 which he headed between 1972-2002, and which was then succeeded by Bahjat Sulaiman (later known as […]
Foreign Militias in Syria: International Disregard and Sectarian Mobilisation
Over the past two days, armed opposition brigades in Busra al-Hareer (Daraa) have captured Asian fighters from among the ranks of pro-Syrian regime forces, thought to have come from former USSR countries. Since 2012 and until now, armed opposition brigades have captured and killed Iranian, Afghan, Russian, Pakistani and African mercenaries, in addition to fighters […]
Iran warns against strike on Syria after gas attack
(Reuters) – Iran warned on Tuesday against foreign military intervention in Syria, saying the resulting conflict would engulf the region. The United States said on Monday it believed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for a chemical weapons attack against civilians last week, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said President Barack Obama was consulting with allies before deciding how […]