Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
By Anne Barnard and Michael R. Gordon The body of a child after a reported gas attack on Tuesday in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in...
New York Times 1
Apr 5, 2017
‘The hospitals were slaughterhouses’: A journey into Syria’s secret torture wards
A woman looks at images smuggled out of Syria on display at the United Nations in New York in 2015. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) BEIRUT — One...
Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria | The
Apr 2, 2017
Iraq: ISIS Dumped Hundreds in Mass Grave
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) executed and dumped the bodies of possibly hundreds of detainees at a site near Mosul, Human...
Human Rights Watch
Mar 22, 2017
Human rights abuses and international humanitarian law violations in the Syrian Arab Republic, 21 Ju
Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s...
Genocide Watch
Mar 14, 2017
Knights of Columbus Gives Nearly $2 million to Aid Syrian and Iraqi Christian Refugees
A year after the U.S. Congress and State Department declared that ISIS was committing genocide against Christians and other religious...
Knights of Columbus
Mar 14, 2017
Syrian children 'pushed to the brink' after worst atrocities since war began
Unprecedented number of children maimed, killed and recruited for combat roles in 2016, says Unicef report on violations suffered by...
The Guardian
Mar 12, 2017
Security in the Aftermath of ISIS
The Nineveh Plain Safe Zone would promote security, foster local governance, and revitalize the area’s economy. It’s time to put it in...
Syria: Latest Round of Peace Talks Between Government and Opposition Begin in Geneva
On 23 February, the Syrian government and opposition delegations gathered in Geneva to launch the fourth round of UN-sponsored...
!a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) Weekly 1
Mar 3, 2017
Turkish Military Says 44 Islamic State Militants Killed in Syria
Forty-four Islamic State militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition air...
Reporting by Orhan Coskun | Writing by Daren
Feb 21, 2017
Syrian Army Takes Control of Western Mountains Overlooking Lebanon
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is now in control of the Western Mountains that overlook Lebanon after the jihadist rebels in Serghaya...
Leith Fadel | AINA
Feb 20, 2017
Syria: Coordinated Chemical Attacks on Aleppo Security Council Should Impose Sanctions
(New York) – Syrian government forces conducted coordinated chemical attacks in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during the final...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 16, 2017
Civilians in Syria’s ‘Four Towns’ need support as humanitarian catastrophe looms – UN relief officia
In Madaya, Rural Damascus, children and their families wait for permissions to leave the besieged Syrian town. Photo: UNICEF/Omar...
Genocide Watch
Feb 16, 2017
