Insights

Relations between Syria and Lebanon have long been shaped by intertwined and highly sensitive issues. Since the Syrian uprising in 2011, these files – especially those related to detainees, borders, and security – have grown more complicated. More than a...

On a cold winter morning in the countryside of Damascus, Aliya Ali, an elderly woman, lights a small stove and watches steam rise from an old metal kettle. Her youngest son has been coughing through the night, and there is...

Palmyra and the vast Syrian desert surrounding it have once again moved to the centre of regional and international attention, amid growing debate over the nature and objectives of the US presence in one of Syria’s most strategically sensitive zones....

Syria’s decision to grant official licensing to the Syrian Jewish Heritage Organisation has been described by government officials as an affirmation of equality among citizens regardless of religion, while researchers and cultural figures have called it “a reconciliation with the...

In societies emerging from prolonged conflict or deep economic crises, corruption is rarely just an administrative flaw or an abuse of power. It often evolves into a parallel system governed by intertwined networks – business figures linked to political authority,...

An attack near the ancient city of Palmyra on Saturday targeted a joint US–Syrian military delegation during a field mission aimed at countering ISIS activity, killing two soldiers and a US interpreter and injuring several others. The ambush, attributed to...

At the edge of his farmland in the countryside of Maaret Misrin, northwestern Syria, 52-year-old Khaled Al-Raai stands watching a dark stream flowing alongside his small orchard. For years, his village depended on a local well that once pumped up...

One year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria enters a new phase weighed down by a difficult question: are the trials now under way leading towards genuine justice, or drifting into fragile political settlements? According to informed observers,...

On the outskirts of Al-Talae Camp, Amira Ahmad sits inside her worn tent, holding her two children as she watches the overcast sky like someone observing a fate over which she has no control. Speaking in a voice stretched thin...

Amid increasing US movement on the Syrian file, the visit of the US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, to Israel has come to shed light on a complex path of security understandings and reciprocal political pressures, against a backdrop of...