One former defense official said the president is “very confused.”

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

Reinoud Leenders, King’s College London & Ali Aljasem, Utrecht University When Syria witnessed largely peaceful mass protests and revolutionary mobilization between March 2011 and the end of 2012, the...

Drop comes amid a huge fall in consumer sentiment which in April dropped 32% to its lowest level since the 1990 recession

Rami Makhlouf, the billionaire cousin of Bashar al-Assad, has claimed to have regrouped former Assad regime forces in Syria’s coastal regions.

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

أطلق ناشطون سوريون دعوة عامة للخروج في مظاهرات ووقفات احتجاجية يوم الجمعة، الموافق 25 نيسان/أبريل 2025، عقب صلاة الجمعة، في مختلف المناطق السورية،

🔴 تصاعد أعمال "العدالة الانتقامية" في سوريا: إخفاق الحكومة في محاسبة رموز النظام السابق يفتح الباب للثأر الفردي #زمان_الوصل كشف معهد دراسة الحرب في واشنطن في أحدث تحديث له، عن تصاعد لافت في وتيرة...

Gender and the post-Asad political order.

Exclusive: Mark Bridges of Farrer & Co was trustee for Rifaat al-Assad, later charged with war crimes in 2024

The Russian government is refusing to extradite former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to Syria, despite ongoing talks between Moscow and the new authorities in Damascus for a reset in relations....

After working in Germany, Syrian doctors are returning to their homeland to help rebuild Syria's shattered health system. German hospitals worry they won't return.

Jihad Yazigi on the partial lifting of EU sanctions, the remaining US sanctions, and the impact on Syria’s economy and reconstruction efforts

في سابقة قضائية أثارت موجة غضب واسعة بين أهالي ضحايا الاعتقال والتعذيب في سوريا، كشف موقع زمان الوصل عن إفراج قاضية في دمشق عن اللواء المتقاعد محمود يونس ع

As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24 years, used a private jet to spirit away cash, valuables and confidential documents mapping the corporate web behind his wealth.

Israël voert een zeer gevaarlijke campagne in Syrië. Dat vraagt om duidelijker optreden, vinden Mohammad Kanfash en Ali Aljasem.

Christiane Amanpour speaks with Omar El-Akkad, the author of “One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This,” about his disappointment in the West’s reaction to the war between Israel and Hamas...

Exclusive: Noor Abdalla attacks Columbia officials alongside Trump administration in letter to husband

Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S. Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters.

In our latest article, Sami Atallah and Sami Zoughaib argue that Karim Soueid’s appointment reflects elite consensus to block reform and protect banking interests, ending the president’s r...

American and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza

Regime responses have disempowered societies, insulating Arab autocrats from citizen demands for economic inclusion, accountability, and responsive governance.

Thanks to the Signal leaks, we can see how the administration acts when they think they are in private. It’s not a pretty sight

Syria's interim President Ahmed Sharaa said mass killings of members of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect were a threat to his mission to unite the country, and promised to punish those responsible, including his own allies if necessary.

Analysis in English on Syrian Arab Republic and 1 other country about Coordination, Food and Nutrition and more; published on 25 Feb 2025 by NWS NGO Forum

This investigation by SJAC and the Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison (ADMSP) into detention at Mezzeh Military Airport provides in depth information on how the facility op...

Kurdish autonomy is a problem that today’s Syria can’t afford.

Aid officials involved in the response say people are already suffering and predict huge problems ahead due to the abrupt end of programmes.

Syrian security forces have arrested three men linked to the 2013 Tadamon massacre, when government forces executed hundreds of blindfolded detainees, shooting them into a trench before setting their ...

Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and have held talks with some of these tycoons, in what they say is a campaign to root out corruption and illegal activity.

US vice-president told litany of tales of Europe’s rights infringements in speech to leaders at defence gathering

Reinoud Leenders, TPI senior fellow, unpacks how Lebanon’s power- and resource-sharing became quasi-synonymous, hence long engrained bad governance will not be overcome by ‘reforms’ ...

Lebanon’s political establishment often touts ministerial rotation, factional exclusion, and the appointment of technocrats as the keys to reform. Are these proposed solutions genuine—or m...

New Lines reports from Sednaya Prison, where Syrians brave horrors in a desperate search for lost loved ones

Competing interests and rivalries between regional powers threaten hopes of change after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

خرجت مظاهرة حاشدة في حي التضامن جنوبي العاصمة دمشق، اليوم الجمعة، احتجاجاً على زيارة أجراها القائد السابق في ميليشيا "الدفاع الوطني" التابعة لنظام