Idlib, northwest Syria - A senior militant commander was killed Thursday in a US-led coalition drone strike on a rural road in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a security source told +963 on Friday. The target, identified as the foreign-born military...
On the long stretch of the Iraqi–Syrian border, where deserts extend and destinies intertwine, the banners of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) no longer fly as before. In the past ten days, these militia symbols have been lowered and replaced...
In Eastern societies, where customs and traditions intertwine with religious and social perceptions, women with disabilities or congenital conditions face compounded challenges that extend beyond physical or biological impairment to social and psychological exclusion. Discrimination stems not only from limited...
Washington - US officials said Washington has delayed the withdrawal of its forces from Syria due to concerns about the Syrian interim government’s ability to maintain security and stability. According to Al-Monitor, more than 900 American troops remain stationed across...
Farah Darwish For decades, Syrian intellectuals and artists have lived under a strained and often hostile relationship with authority. Culture in Syria has rarely been just an act of creativity; it has often become a political battlefield. The cost of...
The term deep state refers to influential and unofficial forces, groups, or individuals who operate behind the scenes. It includes actors within the military and security institutions, as well as government officials who are not necessarily in the front ranks...
For more than a decade, thousands of Syrian women have found themselves embarking on a forced journey into the unknown, after the war compelled them to leave their homeland. Between the hardship of exile and the harshness of beginning anew,...
Governments are often portrayed as mere façades, while the state itself is said to be run by hidden networks of bureaucrats and military men. This image, though widespread, is exaggerated. Political science instead offers the concept of the “deep state”...
Berlin - The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) carried out the arrest on Tuesday in the district of Neukölln. The suspect, identified as Anwar Sultan, is accused by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office of murder, torture, arbitrary detention and other grave...
The announcement of a new “Joint Repatriation Cell” between the United States and its partners in northeast Syria has sparked wide debate over its feasibility and implications. At the centre of this debate lie the sprawling al-Hol and Roj camps,...