After 8 Years, Displaced in Syria’s Rukban Camp on Brink of Starvation
Displaced civilians, stranded in Rukban camp in southeast Syria since 2015, say they are on brink of starvation as Assad regime tightens a 4 1/2-year siege.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | May 14, 2024 | Syria | 0
Displaced civilians, stranded in Rukban camp in southeast Syria since 2015, say they are on brink of starvation as Assad regime tightens a 4 1/2-year siege.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 22, 2024 | Syria | 0
Women and children in the al-Hawl refugee camp in Hasakah Province in northeast Syria in 2020...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 7, 2024 | Syria | 0
At least 17 people were killed on Sunday in clashes between rival armed groups in southern Syria, a day after at least 7 children perished in an explosion.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Apr 1, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 5
Israel kills Iran’s top commander in Syria for the 2nd time in 3 months, with a strike flattening a consulate building next to Iranian Embassy in Damascus.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 31, 2024 | Syria | 0
7 people, including 2 children, killed and 30 + wounded by car bomb detonated in market in Azaz in Aleppo Province in NW Syria. No claim of responsibility.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 29, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 0
Israel reportedly hits multiples sites of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in east Syria, causing casualties. Unconfirmed claims say commander killed or wounded.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Mar 7, 2024 | Syria | 0
Senior UN official to Security Council: Assad regime — after 300+ chemical attacks since 2013 — still not fully cooperating over end to stocks & weapons.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 21, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 22
Aftermath of an Israeli strike on a building in southern Damascus, Syria, reportedly killing four...
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Feb 5, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 4
7+ US-supported Kurdish fighters killed and 18 wounded in a drone strike on a US base in eastern Syria by the Iran-backed militia Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Read MoreRetaliating for killing of 3 US troops, American strikes on 85+ targets in Iraq and Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Tehran-backed militias
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 11, 2024 | Syria | 0
After 13 years of repression of Syria’s uprising, killing 100,000s of civilians, Assad regime presides over fragmented country and an economy in free fall.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 9, 2024 | MENA, Syria, World | 0
Israel shifts tactics in attacks on Assad regime, Iran, and Hezbollah inside Syria, as Jordan carries out cross-border strikes on Iran-linked drug smugglers
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 4, 2024 | Iran, Syria | 24
Strike by Israel’s military assassinates a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Syria, Seyed Raza Mousavi, who was helping prop up Assad regime.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Jan 2, 2024 | Syria | 0
Latest Assad regime attacks on parts of northwest Syria kill 5 civilians, including child and woman pregnant with twins, and wound 20, including 7 children.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 18, 2023 | MENA, Syria, World | 0
Israeli strike inside Syria reportedly kills son of a commander of Hezbollah, as Israel tries to restrict Iran weapons and missiles to Lebanese group.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2023 | Syria | 0
World Food Programme suspends food assistance programme in Syria from January, putting millions of civilians — many displaced by Assad regime — at risk.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 4, 2023 | Syria | 1
OPCW calls for ban on chemical transfers to Syria because of Assad regime’s sarin & chlorine attacks, and failure to declare chemical stocks & facilities.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Dec 2, 2023 | Syria | 1
Iran’s officials confirm 2 Revolutionary Guards killed in Israeli airstrike inside Syria. Local sources say Israelis again attack near Damascus Airport.
Read MoreAfter years of disinformation propping up chemical attacks — particularly Assad regime’s mass killing in Syria, Russia suffers diplomatic setback at OPCW.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 26, 2023 | Iran, Syria | 15
Amid dozens of attacks by Iran-backed militias on US personnel stationed in Syria and Iraq, US and Israel carry out strikes on Iranian positions in Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 19, 2023 | Syria | 0
International Court of Justice orders Assad regime to end its torture of detainees in Syria, as a French court issues an arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Nov 7, 2023 | Iran, Syria | 4
Iran-led militias continue attacks on bases with American personnel, almost 2 weeks after US retaliated with strikes on Iranian positions in NE Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 27, 2023 | Audio, EA Birmingham, EA in the Media, Iran, Media, Syria, What's New | 1
Explaining why US carried out airstrikes on two Iranian targets in northeast Syria, and whether Iran’s regime will observe the line drawn by the attacks.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 25, 2023 | Syria | 0
Assad regime and/or Russian attacks kill 7 children, including 3 siblings, and 3 women within 72 hours in Idlib and Hama Provinces in northwest Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Oct 5, 2023 | Syria | 0
100+ people killed in drone attack on military academy in Homs in western Syria, minutes after Assad regime’s Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas left.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 10, 2023 | Syria | 3
Almost 12 1/2 years after the Syrian uprising of March 2011 for rights, reforms, and justice, protests are resurging across the south of the country.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Sep 6, 2023 | Syria | 0
12 1/2 years after start of Syria’s uprising v. Assad regime, another front of conflict in the fractured country: Kurdish groups v. Arab tribes in northeast
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 27, 2023 | Syria | 0
At least 11 Russian-trained Assad regime troops have reportedly been killed and 20 wounded by a tunnel bomb in southern Idlib Province in northwest Syria.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 18, 2023 | Iran, Russia, Syria, What's New | 15
In a Syria where no one has “won”, headline is of possible Russia-Iran-US showdown. But that diverts from local story where Kurds could be biggest losers.
Read Moreby Scott Lucas | Aug 18, 2023 | Syria, Turkey | 1
The US sanctions two Turkish-backed Syrian militias, saying that they are forcibly displacing and oppressing the local Kurdish population in northwest Syria.
Read More