Hama

Executive summary After dismantling the Zayzoun power stations and selling most of its equipment, including the gas pipelines supplying it, in late 2019,[1] the Syrian branch of the Turkistan Islamic…

Background: On 22 March 2020 the Syrian Ministry of Interior of the Syrian government took a decision to completely close all the land border crossings into Lebanon. Accordingly, the Masnaa,…

Background: Syria was the last of its neighbors; Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, to officially report coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The first case of COVID-19 in Syria was announced on March 23,…

Introduction: The period from March 2019 to September 19 of the same year witnessed the Turkistan Islamic Party/TIP’s continued acts of confiscation and pillage which targeted public properties in western…

Local media and social media activists circulated a photo; they said it belongs to an amnesiac man recently freed from one of the Syrian regime’s detention centers in Hama. However,…

Introduction: Having controlled the full range of rural Hama in early January 2019, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS[1] was fast to seize and confiscate several public facilities and privately-owned properties, in addition…

Introduction The areas, held by the armed opposition groups/anti-Syrian Government factions, in the provinces of Idlib and Hama are yet suffering a state of rampant insecurity, with which robberies and…

September 2 and 4, 2019, marked the seventh anniversary of two massacres perpetrated by pro-government national defense militias against people of the village of Fan Shamaly, in rural Hama. The…

In the city of Hama and its countryside, the Syrian security services continue to arbitrarily arrest civilians, for 9 civilians were arrested upon trying to obtain passports from the Immigration…