Growing stories of overwhelmed hospitals, afflicted family members, and increasing deaths are presenting disturbing evidence of a COVID-19 outbreak spiraling out of control in government-held areas. A major response is
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Syrian government was playing a dangerous game. It initially refused to acknowledge that there were any cases of the disease in Syria, creating an
As the trial of Anwar Raslan and Eyad Al-Gharib [https://syriaaccountability.org/updates/2020/03/26/sjac-to-monitor-first-trial-of-senior-government-official/] enters its fifth month, a recurring issue surrounds the initial police questioning of
Child recruitment into combat has been present since the beginning of the conflict in Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), including its dominant faction, the YPG, has been plagued by
Twenty years ago, on July 16th, 2000, Bashar al-Assad was approved [https://www.refworld.org/docid/3f7d4e22e.html] as president of Syria following a July 10, 2000 referendum that allowed
On June 27 and 28, 2013, The People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces killed six civilians associated with protests against the arbitrary detention of Yekiti Party members in the Northeast
A big moment in the trial of Anwar Raslan and Eyad Al Gharib [https://syriaaccountability.org/updates/2020/03/26/sjac-to-monitor-first-trial-of-senior-government-official/] came on May 18 when Anwar Raslan’s defense
Close to 10,000 civilians are living under wretched humanitarian conditions in the Rukban camp, located in a desert region in Badiyat Homs near the Jordanian-Syrian border, with infrastructure unfit
PRESS RELEASE: SYRIA SANCTIONS MUST BE IMPROVED TO FACILITATE MEDICAL RELIEF DURING COVID-19 Washington, D.C. June 16th, 2020 “Syria’s existing sanctions regimes should be adjusted and recalibrated to
When Fatima’s (name changed) husband disappeared in 2013, she risked her life to find any news of him. “I searched in all security branches, but to give any information,