‘Operation Peace Spring’

Executive Summary “When the shooting started on the street, I panicked. I saw bullets flying around me, and I was extremely scared. I tried to run away and hide. Then…

The signatory organizations are pleased to address the Special Rapporteur (SR) on violence against women, its causes, and consequences, in response to her call for inputs to inform her visit…

This report builds on four exclusive testimonies obtained by Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), covering gender-based violations perpetrated against internally displaced women. The accounts confirm that the culprits are…

Executive Summary In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report…

On 13 March 2022, Syrian government checkpoints began restricting the entry of basic foodstuffs to the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyye in Aleppo. These two neighborhoods are run…

On 29 June 2020, Afrin’s local council, operating under the Syrian Interim Government, announced it was laying the foundation stones for a new school on the ruins of the Yazidi…

On 25 February 2022, local activists posted several photos on social media of a dead body displaying brutal marks of torture. Field researchers with Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ)…

Executive Summary Contrary to its name, Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, which began 9 October 2019, only brought woes to the people of Syria’s northeast, specifically the area lying between Ras…

On 31 January 2022, public and personal Facebook and Twitter accounts, mostly Kurdish, circulated alleged news on a Palestinian organization building villages for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Syria’s Kurdish-majority…