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Syria’s formal decision to join the international coalition against ISIS during the visit of interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa to Washington on 10 November marked a pivotal moment in the country’s post-war trajectory. The step came more than a decade after...

Aliya’s mornings in Palmyra no longer begin with coffee or preparing her children for school. They begin with fear. “Just a fever in one of my children is enough to turn my day into a nightmare,” she says. She knows...

ISIS emerged as one of the most dangerous phenomena to directly shape Syria’s political, social, and security landscape. Its rise was the result of a complex overlap of internal and external factors, including armed conflict, regional and international intervention, and...

More than a decade after the rise of ISIS and the collapse of its so-called “caliphate”, the group has not disappeared from the Syrian landscape. Instead, it has returned in a different form – quieter, but more complex. By late...

The agreement signed on 10 March 2025 between the Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, General Mazloum Abdi, and the Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has become one of the most central issues in the Syrian landscape following the fall of...

More than fourteen years after the outbreak of war in Syria, its heavy consequences remain deeply embedded in daily life – especially for thousands of wounded people left with permanent disabilities that have reshaped their lives entirely. In southern Syria,...

Assessments vary over the nature of the wide-scale US military operation currently under way in central and eastern Syria. Some see it as part of a long-term strategy aimed at eliminating ISIS, while others view it as a calibrated retaliatory...

Homs, Syria, the Wadi al Dahab neighborhood in the city of Homs in central Syria witnessed, on Friday, an explosion inside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque during Friday prayers, resulting in the deaths of 8 people and injuries...

Hussein Omar Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Turkish–Israeli relations have never experienced a rupture as sharp or as dangerous as the one unfolding today. For the first time in this long, often muted rivalry, it...

The fall of Baghouz in 2019 marked the end of ISIS’s territorial control, but not the end of the organisation itself. Rather than collapsing, ISIS entered a new phase of strategic adaptation, reshaping its structure to survive in an environment...