Human Rights Watch has issued a report marking the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. It acknowledges that the new authorities have taken meaningful steps in justice, transparency, and ...

The Syrian Ministry of Health announced the death of a 17-year-old and the treatment of approximately 260 individuals following stampede and suffocation incidents during the “Liberation Anniversary” ...

Syrian Defence Minister Major-General Murhaf Abu Qasra declared yesterday that Syrian forces have been engaged in a relentless ten-year battle against the terrorist group ISIS, and affirmed that the ...

An essay by Jafar al-‘Alouni examines how the relationship between the Alawites, the state, and Syrian society was shaped. For half a century, Syria’s Alawites have lived inside an identity fashioned ...

Most of the arrested served as physicians and military judges at the notorious Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus, Shaam writes. The long arm of transitional justice reached Syria’s coastal ...

Technologies that in other nations are deployed to protect citizens or combat organized crime were twisted into instruments of repression. In the final years of Bashar al-Assad’s rule, Syria was not ...

Syria’s first post-Assad year closes with an impressive portfolio of diplomatic achievements, many argue, secured at the cost of domestic stagnation. From the first official statements issued by the ...

Dozens of factories have shuttered in the face of cheaper imports, al-Hal writes. One year into the seismic upheavals of the so-called “Liberation Phase”, Syria’s economy stands at a crossroads—caught ...

Noureddine al-Baba stressed that the act was purely criminal in nature and devoid of any sectarian motive, according to Syria TV. At a press conference held in Homs on Wednesday, Brigadier General ...

The Commission noted that while many Syrians commemorate the fall of the former regime in various regions, others live under renewed security threats. The Independent International Commission of ...

Khaled Khalil, an expert in Israeli affairs, characterised the assault on Beit Jinn as “an Israeli coup” against regional understandings.

Most of the arrested served as physicians and military judges at the notorious Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus, Shaam writes.