Insights

Villages and towns across the countryside of Quneitra and western Daraa, particularly in the Yarmouk Basin area, have witnessed a marked escalation in Israeli military violations in recent days, according to local residents and field reports. The incidents have heightened...

Protests that swept across 26 Iranian provinces and erupted from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar in late December 2025 have entered a new phase, marked by an external political escalation following US President Donald Trump’s warning that Washington could intervene if demonstrators...

For thousands of years, Aleppo has brought together multiple social components, from Circassians to Armenians to Kurds to Arabs and many others. Aleppine society did not know sectarian expressions until 2011, with the beginning of the Syrian revolution, and perhaps...

As US rhetoric around the possibility of renewed security understandings between Damascus and Tel Aviv intensifies, serious questions are emerging about the nature of Washington’s role and the limits of its willingness – or ability – to exert real pressure...

As dawn breaks in the town of Kafranbel (Kafr Nabl), south of Idlib, ten-year-old Hamdo Al-Yahya walks into his primary school classroom with hesitant steps. He pulls his thin jacket tightly around his small body before sitting on a cold...

Amid accelerating developments in Syrian–Israeli relations and growing security fragility in southern Syria, recent months have seen joint Russian–American efforts to stabilise the situation and prevent escalation towards a broader confrontation. These efforts have taken the form of undeclared security...

Despite the ruins of war continuing to bear witness to a decade of international paralysis, a notable development has emerged behind the scenes in Riyadh. This followed the announcement by Osama al-Qadi, Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Economy in...

At a stage marked by overlapping interests and multiple layers of influence in north-eastern Syria, the relationship between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) appears closer to a transitional arrangement imposed by on-the-ground realities than to a...

Lebanese Army raids in the Akkar Plain come at a highly sensitive security and regional moment, reflecting the fragility of the border reality and the difficulty of insulating Lebanon from the spillover of the Syrian conflict and surrounding geopolitical shifts....

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, with over 130,000 employees in its civil institutions, faces a pivotal stage in integrating its civil and military institutions with the Syrian state under the March 2025 agreement. Parties hold differing visions...