The city of Deir Ezzour was subjected to two massacres today, the first committed by ISIS, and the second by Russian war planes. In the morning, ISIS targeted Harabish district, which falls under regime control, with mortar rockets. A number of rockets fell on a girl’s primary school, killing 10 students and injuring dozens of […]
SHRC documents 51 Massacres in November 2015
SHRC has documented 51 massacres which took place in Syria during November 2015. The most prominent massacres of the month were committed by Russian war planes, including the following: – 5/11/2015: Russian war planes targeted the city of Albukamal and killed 84 civilians. – 29/11/2015: Russian war planes targeted the popular market of Areeha, killing […]
Over 50 Massacres in October 2015
SHRC has documented 52 massacres which took place in October 2015, making it the month in which the highest number of massacres took place in 2015, as of yet. Analysis reveals that Russian war planes were responsible for 19 massacres, the Syrian regime for 32 massacres and ISIS was responsible for one massacre. Aleppo witnessed […]
Violations Committed in Eid al-Adha: The Massacres and Shelling Continue
SHRC documented the death of 168 people during the days of Eid al-Adha, among them 45 children, nine women, and three that died under torture, including one that was killed under the hands of the Kurdish Protection Forces (YBG). SHRC also documented the killing of eight people by ISIS and four that were killed by […]
August 2015: 63 Massacres
SHRC documented 63 massacres in the month of August 2015, 58 of which were perpetrated by the Syrian regime, four of which were committed by ISIS, and one in which a bomb, thought to have been launched by an armed opposition group, fell on Damascus and caused a massacre. The targeting of markets has been […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 10/06/2015
The death toll in Syria on Wednesday 10/06/2015 reached 68 deaths including nine children, seven women and three killed under torture. Daraa witnessed the killings of 25 civilians; 12 in clashes with government forces, five in warplane shelling on the towns of rural Daraa (among them a journalist) and five in a mine explosion – […]
An Oil Refinery targeted in Manbaj
On Friday afternoon, warplanes targeted the city of Manbaj (eastern rural Aleppo), where a vacuum missile hit two civilian homes, northeast al-Dala roundabout in al-Hazawina neighbourhood. An oil refinery was also hit by shrapnel, which led to its burning. The initial death toll recorded the deaths of three children, a young man and two women. […]
Bombing the Vicinity of a Mosque in Kafr Aweed in Idlib
Helicopters began bombing the village of Kafr Awed (rural Idlib), where the bombing targeted the area surrounding the mosque, shortly after Friday prayers. The raid led to the killings of at least 12 civilians, until now.
Daily Reports on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 20/03/2015
The death toll in Syria on Friday 20/03/2015 reached 76 deaths including five children, a woman and 12 killed under torture, identified through leaked photographs. Additionally massacres took place in Al-Hassaka and Idlib and the names of the victims have not yet been reached. In Damascus and its suburbs ten civilians were killed; four in […]
Rural Damascus: A heavy file of Massacres, Siege, and War Crimes
Rural Damascus surrounds the capital, Damascus, on all sides, and most of its areas are rural and agricultural. Before the popular uprisings against Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, rural Damascus was home to approximately 2.2 million people. The regime of the previous president, Hafiz al-Assad, had separated rural Damascus from the capital during the seventies […]