[135] On the same day, 4 people including an ISIS fighter were killed after a small clash took place between suspected ISIS gunmen and SDF forces at the Al-Hawl refugee camp. This was the first verdict in a historic trial of two former Syrian intelligence officials, on charges related to state-sponsored torture in Syria. I am asking interlocutors not only what they would demand, but also what they would be able to put on the tableto make progress, step-for step, on issues via commitments which are made with precision, which are verifiable, and which are implemented in parallel, said the UN envoy. "I owe her a lot," Rumeysa Grbz, a survivor of the powerful earthquake in Turkey, said of her beloved pet cat Leyla after being reunited. Now you sleep, wake up and see that prices have gone up," he said. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Syrian volunteers "Murderers". 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[233] On the same day, two civilians were shot dead by insurgents near the city of Jasim, Daraa. [48] Later in the day, a Turkish soldier was killed after SDF forces fired artillery at Turkish army positions on the Syrian-Turkish border. But while the frontlines have been largely frozen for years, an economic crisis is exacting an increasingly heavy toll across the fractured nation. [465], On 15 December, ISIS forces ambushed a convoy of the Syrian NDF militia on the Ithriya -Al-Raqqa road in the Hama desert. IIIM Head Catherine Marchi-Uhel discusses the obstacles to this work, the progress made to date and what lessons it can provide for delivering accountability and justice in other conflicts. [18], Also on 13 January, SOHR reported that ISIL operatives attacked positions of pro-government militias in the desert near the city of Abu Kamal, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, killing five National Defence Forces (NDF) militiamen and wounding 14 others. [16][17], On 13 January, Anwar Raslan, a government intelligence officer, was found guilty by a German court after a 108 day trial to have overseen the murder of at least 27 people, torture of at least 4,000, two cases of rape and various other crimes at the Branch 251 prison in Damascus. The findings are clear. USIP has also supported education for journalists in Lebanon on conflict-sensitive reporting. [188] On the Aleppo frontline, near the village of Kaimar, three fighters of the Al-Hamza Division were killed in an infiltration attempt by Kurdish "Tahrir Afrin" fighters. Image Credit: Creative Commons. [158] On the same day, a militant of Ansar al-Islam blew himself up in a suicide attack aimed at destroying Syrian army positions near the village of Sirmaniyah, Hama. [402], On 1 September, it was reported that a Canadian intelligence informant had been responsible for smuggling ISIL fighters, including Shamima Begum, from Turkey into Syria in 2015. [416], In summer 2022, there were reports that Syrian diplomats had met with Turkish diplomats, at an international conference. Clashes broke out between the drug smugglers and the Jordanian army after the operation was thwarted. [372], Later in the day, an SDF fighter was shot dead by ISIS insurgents in the town of Al-Shuhayl, Deir ez-Zor. [181] In response, Russian warplanes reportedly conducted at least 20 airstrikes against ISIS positions, causing an unknown number of casualties. [335], On 20 July, the leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran met in Tehran. The attack came shortly after the 2nd anniversary of the U.S assassination of an Iranian General in 2020. [316], On 12 July, Maher al-Agal - one of the top five ISIL commanders - and his escort were killed in an American drone-launched airstrike on their motorcycle in Ghaltan village, near Jindires. Abdi said that Kurdish groups would be able to cooperate with the Syrian government, and still retain their autonomy. [326] A Syrian government soldier was killed by a landmine explosion in Halfaya, Hama. Footage of the attack was released by HTS. A rebel fighter of al-Badiya brigade in Jaysh al-Islam uses his mobile phone near the frontline of Masasna checkpoint in the northern countryside of Hama on March 4, 2015. The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group - known officially as Daesh - and its affiliates, remains a long-term game for which there are no quick fixes, theUN counter-terrorismchief told the Security Council on Wednesday. [394][395][396] In the evening of 24 August, pro-Iranian militias executed a missile attack on the Conoco site and Green Village near al-Omar oil field which had injured three U.S. military service members. [367], On August 5, 2 civilians and a member of Syrian security forces were killed in clashes following a grenade attack in the Al-Maydan area of Aleppo. [13], On 11 January, two civilians were executed by Islamist rebels Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the town of Kafrsajna in Maarrat al-Nu'man District, Idlib, in a part of Northwestern Syria controlled by the HTS-dominated Syrian Salvation Government, after reportedly confessing to collaborating with Syrian government forces. Any of a number of flashpoints could ignite a broader conflagration, he continued, drawing a grim picture of mutual shelling, skirmishes and security incidents across frontlines in the northwest, the northeast, and the southwest. In the town of Elmah, Daraa, 3 people were killed, including a Syrian soldier and a woman, after IED blast destroyed a house. [178], On 25 April, two Syrian army soldiers were killed and ten others were injured after ISIS militants attacked Syrian army and militia positions near the al-Kharatah oil field in the western Deir ez-Zor desert. The lessons of Moscow's involvement in Syria's civil war stand as a specter of the heavy-handed playbook experts fear could be used on an even larger and more deadly In December 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced a decision to withdraw the roughly two thousand U.S. troops remaining in Syria. Israel has increasingly and frequently conducted aerial strikes on Iranian or Hezbollah-manned targets in Syria. Publications [93], Furthermore, 3 people were killed in a hospital fire in the city of Aleppo. Three other soldiers later died of their wounds. A senior Iraqi ISIS militant by the name of Abdulrahman al-Iraqi was killed in the fighting. Opposition forces have maintained limited control in Idlib, in northwestern Syria, and on the Iraq-Syria border. The official administration line is that these forces, primarily special operators, are there to help the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fight the remnants of the Islamic The Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led armed group, has carried out mass arrest campaigns against civilians including activists, journalists, and teachers. [324], A civilian was also shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the village of Al-Shaykh Maskin, Daraa. [273], On 16 June, at least 3 Syrian soldiers were killed and six others were injured after ISIS militants ambushed a Syrian military bus in the Syrian desert, close to the Al-Tanf area. [452], On the same day an SDF fighter was shot dead in Al-Busayrah by ISIS insurgents. The government has sought to address the situation by increasing public sector wages and pensions, most recently in December. [422], On 28 October, at least 3 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the city of Daraa. [99][100], On 25 February, three SDF fighters were killed by suspected IS operatives near Hajin. Non-UN aid groups in northeast Syria, which is mostly under the control of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration, a quasi-autonomous authority, say they have been unable to bring in enough aid, particularly for health care, since the UN was forced tostopits cross-border operations between Iraq and Syria in January 2020. However, worsening conditions and subsidy cuts have led to protests in the southwestern city of Sweida this month. [407], On 16 September, five people, including three SDF police officers, were killed in a Turkish drone strike near a Syrian Army base in Ayn Issa. The pandemic and a drought have added to the pressures. DAMASCUS/BEIRUT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - After her son was killed fighting for the Syrian government in 2013, the state began paying Amouna al-Berri a monthly salary which easily covered all her household expenses. [412], In the month of September 2022, SOHR recorded 282 people killed in Syria. Officially the Syrian Arab Republic, the current state formed in the mid-20th century after Ottoman rule and a brief French mandate. Prior to that attack, only two Americans had been killed in action in Syria since the U.S.-led campaign began. [446][447], On 19 November, in the early hours of the morning, 4 Syrian soldiers were killed and another was injured in Israeli airstrikes on a Syrian military position on the Tartus coastline. The Dutch correspondence is an important step that could eventually lead to proceedings against Syria at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). [6][7], The same day, continuing on-going Israeli airstrikes on Iranian and government targets in Southern Syria, Israeli tanks fired at Syrian army positions in the town of Quneitra near the Golan Heights, in the Daraa Governorate, setting fire to a building. It was absolutely otherworldly; I'm still processing it.