On 13 February 2021, Afrin city witnessed violent armed clashes with light and medium weapons between the al-Jabha al-Shamiya/Levant Front and the Jaysh al-Islam/al-Islam Army (hereinafter the Army and the…
Army of Islam
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Human Rights Journalism
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Today completes seven years since the disappearance of the four activists. On December 9, 2013, the joint office of the Violations Documentation Center (VDC) in Syria, the office of the…
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Press releases & statements
joint statement on the fate of the Missing, Detained and Forcibly Disappeared and guarantee the freedom and safety of human rights defenders in Syria
Six years ago, the joint office of the VDC, LDSPS and Rising for Freedom in Douma in Eastern Ghouta (north of Damascus) was raided by armed men who abducted four…
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Human Rights Journalism
Syrian Security Services Arrest Former Leaders of Jaysh al-Islam in Southern Damascus
by wael.mOn November 15, 2018, Syrian security services arrested three former leaders of Jaysh al-Islam and another person, who have already conducted a reconciliation/settlement with the Syrian government, after a raid…
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Investigative Reports
Syria – Another Use of Sick and Besieged Children and Civilians as a Bargaining Chip
by wael.mPreface: On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, the first batch of trapped patients on “evacuation lists” in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus countryside, was evacuated; it was five cases out of 29, which Syrian…
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Investigative Reports
Special Report on the Case of the Nurse “Gossoon Murshid” and Depriving her of her Freedom in Eastern Ghouta
by wael.mpreface: On Wednesday afternoon, December 13, 2017, the nurse Gossoon Murshid, director of the Incubator Department at the Obstetric Hospital in Duma[1], was arrested while returning to her house located in…
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Preface: On Saturday, October 21, 2017, Army of Islam[1] could forcibly imposed its control on the Civil Registry Directorate in Duma, in the wake of entering a group of security personnel…
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Investigative Reports
Seizure of Houses of Displaced Returns “Infighting” between Opposition Factions to the Front
by wael.mPreface: Renewed military confrontations[1] between Syrian armed opposition factions in Eastern Ghouta added burden on civilians who have been besieged for several years by Syrian government forces in all Eastern…
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Human Rights Journalism
“Arrest Numbers of Employees in Educational Institutions in Douma City by Soldiers of Jaish al-Islam”
by wael.mOn Sunday morning, August 27, 2017, persons of the Security Office of Jaish al-Islam in Douma, an armed opposition faction controlling areas in Damascus countryside in Eastern Ghouta, arrested three…