The regime’s warplanes targeted Binnech city with a number of raids that left 2 deaths and causing wounds to 28 people, most of them are children. The shelling caused severe damage to four schools, targeting 6 school with rockets. The schools are: the girls ‘secondary school, the Mamdouh Shu’ayb secondary school, the As’ad’ Adani school, […]
Universal Children’s Day: Five Schools Targeted
On Universal Children’s Day, which took place on Sunday, five schools were targeted across the provinces of Aleppo, rural Damascus, and Idlib. On Sunday morning, war planes targeted the Ma’arat al-Noman Education Complex in Ma’arat al-Noman (rural Idlib) with an air strike which hit the Waleed Bilani Secondary School next to the complex, injuring two […]
Douma Rocket and Artillery Massacre
Regime forces have targeted the residential districts of Douma (rural Damascus) with artillery shells and rockets, killing nine people and injuring dozens of others. The Directorate of Education in the city has announced that schools will be closed for the rest of the day due to the intense bombing. Victims identified include: Ibrahim al-Nabulsi Akram […]
Violent Air Strikes on Aleppo and Suburbs
Since Thursday morning, helicopters and war planes have continued their assault on the eastern part of Aleppo city and rural areas which fall under opposition control. The assault has included the use of barrel bombs, vacuum missiles, phosphorous bombs and cluster bombs. The bombing targeted the districts of al-Saliheen, al-Sukari, Karam al-Tawab, Ba’ideen, Qadi ‘Askar, […]
The Right to Education: Present and Future Violations
The right to education forms a fundamental axiom of the rights of children adopted by the International Law of Human Rights due to the far reaching effects this right has on the life and future of a child, as well as the effects it has on the society that the child lives in at large. […]
Another School targeted by Syrian Regime Planes
The “Sun of Liberty” school in the city of Qaa’ (rural Idlib) was subjected to shelling with interstitial missiles launched by MeG planes, this morning. Many pupils, that had been sitting at their desks at the time of the attack, were injured. The school was opened in 2013, and is an accredited educational partner for […]
Teachers take lead on Syrian education
Amid destruction of schools, about 150 students now attend classes in a house in the western city of Homs. Teachers and activists have turned houses into temporary schools in an attempt to give Syrian children an education. Almost three years of war have destroyed many schools in the country, leaving many children without an education. […]