Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
In Syria, Cemeteries Run Out of Space for the Dead
A civilian rides a bicycle past a cemetery in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Syrian truce receives new blows with deadly air strikes
A man rides a bicycle near damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Life and death in Aleppo, a city under siege
For the past month I haven’t needed to set a morning alarm – the regime jets do that job for me. Every single day we have been woken at 7am by …
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United Nations
Pictures of the besieged in Aleppo
Rebel fighters, Civil Defence members and civilians caught in rebel-held areas of Aleppo during the ongoing civil war in Syria.��������������…
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Suspected Russian warplanes bomb Idlib, dozens killed
Civil Defence members look for survivors under rubble of damaged buildings after air strikes on the northern neighbourhood of Idlib city, Syria.�…
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United States
Europe must end its silence on Syria
Just a few days ago, the UN Special Envoy for Syria was in Berlin and gave a gloomy forecast. Staffan de Mistura feared that if the massive bom…
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United Nations
Aleppo : Heartbreaking pictures from inside the war-torn Syrian ‘city of orphans’
In the Syrian city of Aleppo, nearly 300,000 people are trapped without access to food, fuel or basic medical supplies. Government forces, ai…
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
East Aleppo 'catastrophic' as tens of thousands flee
Evacuees from the eastern districts of Aleppo gather to board buses. Syrian civilians in rebel-held eastern Aleppo are expressing desperation ove…
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
East Aleppo's last hospital destroyed by Russian airstrikes
The besieged population of eastern Aleppo faces a "very bleak moment" with no food or medical supplies, winter approaching, and an in…
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United States
An injured boy lies in a field hospital in Ghouta, Syria
An injured boy lies in a field hospital after a strike on the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.…
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Heartbreaking pictures show nursery school after Russian airstrikes
These heart breaking pictures show the bloody aftermath of a nursery school bombing in war-torn Syria. At least six children have been killed a…
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Syrian opposition
An injured girl reacts at a site hit by an airstrike in Douma
An injured girl reacts at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Aleppo's children not safe from Russsian bunker-busting bombs
Aleppo's children not safe from bunker-busting bombs.
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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Civil Defence members try to put out a fire inside a building in Ghouta
Civil Defence members walk through smoke as they try to put out a fire inside a building after shelling in the rebel held besieged town of Douma,…
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The Syrian civil war is the deadliest conflict the 21st century has witnessed so far.
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