Insights

The repeated events witnessed in Syria since the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime more than a year ago, and the accompanying violence and incitement rhetoric, underscore the urgent need to complete the transitional justice file in order to do...

In recent days, Iraq found itself at the centre of a political storm. The country’s official gazette briefly listed Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi movement as terrorist organizations and froze their assets. On the surface, the move appeared to be...

More than ten years after the war began in Syria, the wounds it left behind are still wide open. Thousands of families are searching for relatives who disappeared into prisons or never came home. Others are still waiting for someone,...

In a move described as political as much as economic, the meeting between Damascus and one of the largest American energy companies appeared to signal a deeper shift in international approaches toward Syria. Major companies do not operate in post-conflict...

Israel is experiencing an intense wave of political and social upheaval – a moment of internal rupture that has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the centre of an open struggle involving coalition partners, opposition parties, the street and the...

France’s presidential envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, arrived in Beirut at a critical moment, signalling Paris’s intention to revive its diplomatic and security role in Lebanon after a period of relative regional absence. Through this visit, France seeks to reaffirm its...

After the fall of the previous Syrian regime, public debate has revealed a sharp divide between two broad groups. One links political legitimacy to institutional continuity and to what remains of old administrative and economic privileges – a view often...

A very weak harvest, almost no production, and prices more than doubled compared with last year – this is the state of the olive season in Daraa, southern Syria, according to farmers, mill owners and agricultural engineers. Although the olive...

The debate over integrating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – a US-backed force and central to the fight against ISIS, controls large areas of north-eastern Syria – into the structure of the Syrian state has returned to the forefront after...

As Syria begins a new political phase, the country has entered a complex period of restructuring both authority and collective consciousness, shaped by the long war, extensive migration, and deep demographic changes. These transformations have produced a new environment for...