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By: Sarah Fakhro Economic activity is once again taking centre stage in Syria following a major announcement from Saudi Arabia outlining multi-billion-dollar investments across key sectors including energy, real estate, industry, infrastructure, financial services, healthcare, agriculture, telecommunications, IT, and construction....

By Hammoud Hammoud The theological and jurisprudential corpus produced by jihadist thought in modern times stands as a vast intellectual contribution within contemporary religious fundamentalism. Despite its ideological weight and volume, this article poses a central question: why have jihadist...

Syria’s southern province of Suweyda is facing an alarming humanitarian crisis, as intense armed clashes, now ongoing for more than a week, continue between Bedouin tribes in rural Suweyda and the local Military Council alongside other armed groups. These hostilities...

Tracing the trajectory of the state concept in Syria since independence reveals a complex path of developments and transformations that ultimately led to an existential crisis for the Syrian state itself. From the promising constitutional experiment of the 1940s to...

After days of deadly clashes between government forces and Druze groups in Syria’s southern province of Suwayda, the situation has entered a fragile calm. However,fears of renewed violence persist amid external interventions that threaten the region’s stability. Israel has played...

As the Syrian economy was preparing for a phase of gradual recovery, and as members of the Syrian diaspora in the United States were making efforts to repeal the Caesar Act imposed on Syria, the decision by the U.S. House...

Diplomatic Statements and Israeli Strikes Unless Lebanon takes swift action to resolve the issue of Hezbollah’s weapons, it risks facing a “existential threat” and exclusion from the regional equation, according to U.S. envoy to Syria and Lebanon, Thomas Barrack. But...

In a move reflecting growing international concern for Syria’s humanitarian crisis, the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture has signed a cooperation agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The partnership aims to support farmers affected by recurring droughts and...

There is a prevailing sense of ambiguity surrounding the political concept of the Middle East, both in terms of its geographic boundaries and the countries it encompasses, since the term’s first usage in the early 20th century. Despite that, the...

Washington is increasingly playing the role of a decisive mediator in Syria, seeking on one hand to maintain a limited military presence that ensures Kurdish influence in the country’s northeast, and on the other hand, to block any regional arrangements...