Today marks the 7th anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes Syria has witnessed since the uprising in 2011. Early hours of 21 August 2013, rebel-held parts of east and west Ghouta, just on the outskirts of Damascus, were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. The rockets targeted the towns of Ghouta and suffocated more than 1,125 people to…

Many massacres were committed by The Assads, both the father and the son, since the 1980s till this very moment. However, the chemical massacre was the most horrible one among all these crimes, not only because of the number of casualties, the weapon used, or the human tragedy it caused. But because it was committed under the eyes of the whole world…

Civil society organisations deal anxiously the Lebanese Government’s policy towards Syrian refugees and so-called safe return Download PDF

With the Syrian revolution entering its tenth year, the issue of detainees in Assad’s prisons remains one of the most important issues related to all the demands and values ​​that the Syrian revolution has advocated since its inception. Arbitrary detention, torture, disappearance, and systematic killing in Assad’s prisons were and still are at the top of the lists of human rights violations…

Dear Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP, We, at the Syrian British Council (SBC), are writing in regard to the recent plan proposed by the Lebanese Government to return the Syrian refugees to Syria. With this letter, we hereby wish that you urge the Lebanese Government against pushing the Syrian refugees to return to Syria against their will as the time is not…

With the tenth year of the Syrian conflict, and while the Syrian Regime and its allies were able to take over new territories in the different parts of the country, the Syrian economy seems to be on the verge of collapse. The Syrian pound plummets, domestic production freezes, and international economic relations become impotent. Recently, the Syrian pound has hit the lowest…

In light of the global crisis the entire world is going through with regard to the Coronavirus, the Syrian British Council (SBC) is gravely concerned that the Syrians in the different territories in Syria are at a higher risk and severe vulnerability to the spread of the COVID-19. This is because of the extreme weak and stretched health systems, the mass displacement,…

Last month and considering the suffering of Syrian civilians in northwest Syria due to the fierce military onslaught of Assad regime and its allies, the Syrian British Council (SBC) welcomed the Turkish intervention as a serious step in protecting civilians and ending their suffering. In light of this intervention, Syrians were waiting for a deal to be agreed between Turkey and Russia;…

Thousands of refugees, including Syrian ones, have surged through the Turkish borders to the Greek border following the Turkish decision to lift restrictions imposed on refugees wishing to go to Europe. On 1 March 2020, the United Nations said that there are about 13,000 refugees along the Turkish-Greek border. Greek government figures indicated that at least 24,000 people have been prevented from…