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Villages and towns across the countryside of Quneitra and western Daraa, particularly in the Yarmouk Basin area, have witnessed a marked escalation in Israeli military violations in recent days, according to local residents and field reports. The incidents have heightened...

For thousands of years, Aleppo has brought together multiple social components, from Circassians to Armenians to Kurds to Arabs and many others. Aleppine society did not know sectarian expressions until 2011, with the beginning of the Syrian revolution, and perhaps...

As US rhetoric around the possibility of renewed security understandings between Damascus and Tel Aviv intensifies, serious questions are emerging about the nature of Washington’s role and the limits of its willingness – or ability – to exert real pressure...

Aleppo – At least five people were killed and more than 20 others injured on Tuesday during clashes and mutual shelling in the city of Aleppo between the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) and units of the Syrian interim government’s Ministry...

As dawn breaks in the town of Kafranbel (Kafr Nabl), south of Idlib, ten-year-old Hamdo Al-Yahya walks into his primary school classroom with hesitant steps. He pulls his thin jacket tightly around his small body before sitting on a cold...

Damascus, Syria – Syria is facing a 70 per cent deficit in its wheat stocks, according to Hassan Al-Othman, Director-General of the Syrian Grain Organisation. In a statement to +963 on Monday, Al-Othman said the country requires approximately 2.5 million...

Syria finds itself at an unprecedented political juncture, one in which questions of statehood, authority, and identity intersect with a fractured social reality and a long legacy of authoritarianism and war. A state exhausted by years of conflict, its institutions...

Amid accelerating developments in Syrian–Israeli relations and growing security fragility in southern Syria, recent months have seen joint Russian–American efforts to stabilise the situation and prevent escalation towards a broader confrontation. These efforts have taken the form of undeclared security...

Despite the ruins of war continuing to bear witness to a decade of international paralysis, a notable development has emerged behind the scenes in Riyadh. This followed the announcement by Osama al-Qadi, Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Economy in...

At a stage marked by overlapping interests and multiple layers of influence in north-eastern Syria, the relationship between the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) appears closer to a transitional arrangement imposed by on-the-ground realities than to a...