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LATEST FROM Idlib

Four months in, civilians remain a target of the government military campaign on northwest Syria

August 02

AMMAN- Since the beginning of Russia and the Syrian government’s military campaign on northwest Syria in April 2019, territory control has barely changed.

Civil Defense: More than 200 killed in Idlib during Ramadan

June 13

Amman - The Syrian Civil Defense documented 24 people killed and 35 injured on Monday as a result of the Syrian government’s targeting of northern Hama and southern Idlib province...

Dozens dead as Syrian Army counterattacks Kafranbuda in response to Islamist gains

May 23

Amman- Rocket fire killed four civilians and injured 20 others in the city center of Saraqib, southeast of Idlib, in a new escalation by government forces in response to a militar...

“The wall engraved with shrapnel” and the remains of books: Memories of displacement in Idlib

May 21

With each new story of displacement Ahmed lives out, he recalls the details of his house, the windows, the colors of the walls, the beautiful memories he had there. But just as he...

“Where is there left to go?” Three Clinics are hit in regime strikes in Northwest Syria

May 06

Amman- Khadijat Umm Mohammed sits in her small house on the outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun, its foundation intermittently rattled by the force of nearby explosions. She is waiting fo...

“A true disaster” … Continuous escalation in North Western Syria displaces tens of thousands

May 05

Amman- On the eve of Ramadan in Idlib, barrel bombs fell from the sky. Dawn found families fleeing their homes, wary to keep an eye above for any circling planes.

Latest military escalation in Idlib creates new wave of displaced

May 01

Amman: Late Monday night, a mortar shell landed just meters away from Mohammed al-Sheikh’s house in the village of Kafr Nabuda. The resulting explosion injured his brother and pus...

Explosion rocks Idlib's Jisr a-Shughour, as ruling Islamist faction intensifies operations against IS sleeper cells

April 24

An explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in Idlib province’s Jisr a-Shughour early Wednesday morning, killing more than a dozen civilians and sending massive plumes ...

Syrians in former opposition pockets still using smugglers, corrupt security officials to transport themselves north amid ‘false promises’ of reconciliation

April 11

Residents of formerly opposition-held areas are paying smugglers thousands of dollars to transport them to the country’s last rebel stronghold.

Moscow meeting signals deepening Russian-Turkish cooperation over Idlib, as Syrian government ramps up bombardment

April 09

Dawn had just broken over Saraqeb on Sunday, when a constellation of cluster munitions burst over the town and ripped through its local council building. It was the fourth consecu...

PHOTO BRIEFS

Photo Essay: Displaced families from northeast Hama flee ongoing battles, settle in sparse camps

Hundreds of residents return to regime-controlled Homs city months after leaving in rebel surrender agreement

Residents in northwest Syrian town caught in the latest crackdown by Al-Qaeda-linked rebel faction

Sick residents evacuated, injured fighters leave as second round of Four Towns Agreement begins

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