Investigative Reports

1. Methodology Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) started working on this report in mid-2018. Ahead of field work, a team of researchers discussed the report’s methodology, set up a …

Executive Summary The Syrian conflict, which has been going on for more than nine years, induced a tragedy, with consequences that will definitely continue to haunt countless women, particularly adolescent …

Executive summary Child abandonment has risen in several areas of the province of Idlib and northern rural Aleppo, which are controlled by armed opposition groups. From the beginning of the …

Executive Summary Over the last several years, summer crop fires in north east Syria have become a reoccurring issue. Largely commencing in early May, these fires overlap with wheat and …

Executive Summary A Syria-based Russian security company – in collusion with the Syrian government- recruited no fewer than 3000 Syrians, both civilians and fighters, from various provinces as mercenaries to …

Background On 9 October 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the launch of a military operation by the Turkish Army and allied Syrian opposition groups – of the National …

Background On 27 March 2020, the village of Al Qrayya in As Suwayda suburbs witnessed clashes and confrontations between fighters of the 5th Corps,[1] headed by Ahmed al-Awdeh, and local …

Background: More than a year after the Syrian government retook areas in Daraa and al-Qunaitra, in southern Syria, from Islamist and armed opposition groups under a “settlement agreement”,[1] thousands of …

I.      A brief history of the Libyan civil war Turkey in Libya sounds like a bet in the making. The current military support Turkey provides to Libya’s Government of National …