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“It is enough to turn on the tap to notice an unfamiliar smell, taste, and color in the water, which has now become part of our daily lives,” says Reem Abbas, a resident of Sahnaya south of Damascus, in an...

In an unprecedented step in more than a decade, Damascus is preparing on the fourth of December 2025 to receive a full delegation of the fifteen representatives of the permanent and non permanent members of the United Nations Security Council,...

Since 2011, real estate ownership has turned into a highly sensitive issue due to the displacement of millions and the enactment of Decree 66 and Law 10, both of which impose short deadlines and almost impossible evidentiary requirements for those...

Critics often praise the values of the French Revolution, and secularists increasingly recite near-religious paeans to its principles and slogans, viewing it as the most significant modern transformation towards freedom, dignity, and independence. Yet, this article does not aim to...

Syria’s internal displacement crisis continues to reshape the country’s social and economic landscape. What began as an emergency response to violence has evolved into a long-term condition that defines daily life for millions. Countless families now endure extreme hardship in...

Sweden’s Minister of Migration, Johan Forssell, triggered a fresh round of debate across Europe when he announced a “mutual understanding” with the Syrian government to begin deporting Syrians convicted of crimes in Sweden. Stockholm insists that removing individuals who pose...

Evidence from northern Syria shows that what is happening in Afrin extends beyond the consequences of the armed conflict to a gradual process of demographic restructuring, based on displacing the original inhabitants and settling new groups in their place within...

With every new security incident targeting Alawites – and, more broadly, other minorities – memories resurface of the “Useful Syria” that former president Bashar Al-Assad once spoke about before his flight from the country. That imagined Syria was to be...

Baghdad has completed 400 kilometers of a border wall with Syria, according to Abbas Al-Bahadli, spokesperson for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. The project seeks to cut off smuggling and terrorism and transform the border from a zone of social...

As the world marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, legal and human-rights specialists stress that women continue to confront daily battles within social and legal systems that often fail to provide adequate protection. Despite the...