The death toll on Monday 30/6/2014 reached 60 deaths including six women and seven children. Twenty were killed in the city of Idlib including 13 civilians killed as a result of shelling by regime forces on to residential neighbourhoods in the city of Idlib. Among those killed a media activist from Douma (Rural Damascus) was […]
Regime Bombs Ar-Raqqah after ISIS Headquarters are Emptied
Syrian regime planes bombed the city of Ar-Raqqah for the first time after its retreat from the city in March 2013, after which Jabhat al-Nusra and then ISIS took over. Four airstrikes targeted the headquarters of ISIS, which had been emptied the previous day. The first airstrike targeted the local stadium, the second targeted the […]
Deir Azzour: A long term target and a Strangling Humanitarian Crisis
The city of Deir Azzour is being subjected to a focussed attack by elements of ISIL, in addition to an ongoing and relentless attack by the Syrian regime. ISIL retreated from most areas of Deir Azzour last February after vicious battles with other armed factions of the Syrian opposition. However, it began new counter-offensive attacks […]
ISIS carries out Executions in Ar-Raqqah
Since it gained control over the city of Ar-Raqqah, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been committing human rights violations in a systematic manner, in which its elements have been arresting activists as well as members of other armed groups and ordinary citizens that have no affiliations whatsoever. ISIS have been committing […]
The End of the Ordeal of the Four French Journalists in Syria
Ten months following their abduction, the ordeal of the four French journalists kidnapped in Syria came to an end after they were released in circumstances of which details have not yet been provided. On 18/4/2014, the Turkish authorities found the French journalists with their hands tied and their eyes covered on the Syrian-Turkish borders. They […]
Daily Reports on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 18/04/2014
The death toll on Friday 18/4/2014 reached 142 deaths including five women and seven children. Twenty-three civilians were killed in the city of Aleppo and its suburbs, including two families killed in shelling last night at the Baab al-Hadid neighbourhood. In addition five civilians were killed in shelling on al-Mukambu neighbourhood (Aleppo) and five were […]
Spanish Journalist Released
It was announced today in Madrid that the Spanish Journalist Mark Margenidas was released. Mark Margenidas was abducted in Hama on 3/9/2013, after stopping at an ISIS checkpoint. The Spanish newspaper El Periodico, for whom Margenidas works, said that he was currently in Turkey with the company of Spanish officials, and where he was undergoing […]
‘Nearly 500’ killed in Syria rebel infighting
Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group . The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the fighting that has pitted a loose alliance of rebel […]
THREE CITIZEN-JOURNALISTS AMONG HOSTAGES EXECUTED BY ISIS
Reporters Without Borders has learned that at least three citizen-journalists were among the approximately 50 detainees that the group called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) massacred on 6 January before withdrawing from the Qadi Asqar district of Aleppo. The three known citizen-journalists killed in the massacre were Maher Hasroumi, Amin Abu Ahmad […]
Polish Journalist Marcin Suder is Free
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has come to know that the Polish journalist Marcin Suder, who was abducted on 24/7/2013, escaped from his captivity. He was abducted when an armed group raided the media office of Saraqeb (Idlib), and began beating the activist Manhal Barsh, and then abducted Suder, who was training media activists […]