The Islamic State (ISIS)—a violent extremist organization responsible for widespread atrocities—announced on Tuesday that it carried out the attack targeting a bus transporting Syrian army soldiers in ...

Obedience does not vanish with the retreat of direct repression. It becomes both internal and collective, Sara Khuzam writes in Daraj.

The Counter-Terrorism Department at the Ministry of Interior has arrested the former regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff following a precise security operation, the ministry announced on Tuesday. The ...

Atef Najib, the former head of the Political Security Branch in Daraa, appeared before the Fourth Criminal Court at the Palace of Justice in Damascus as judges entered the courtroom, amid tight ...

There are limited signs that Syria’s regional role could improve — most notably Arab re-engagement and efforts to reintegrate the country into its regional environment, +963 writes. As Syria continues ...

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has requested a thirty-year prison sentence for Rafiq Qatrib, a fifty-eight-year-old former commander in the National Defense Forces. The Dutch Public Prosecution ...

The tour highlights the transitional president’s drive to secure long-awaited Gulf investment, al-Akhbar writes. Two days after returning from Turkey, where he took part in the Antalya Diplomacy Forum ...

The Syrian Ministry of Information has issued a categorical rejection of a recent New York Times investigation that detailed allegations of ransom-driven abductions and sexual violence against Alawite ...

The public sphere is now saturated with Islamist slogans that overshadow demands for individual and collective rights, Daraj argues. The Assad regime invokes the word democracy only to disparage it, ...

A high-speed railway linking northern Saudi Arabia to Syria through Jordan could help reduce dependency on the Hormuz Strait, Al-Thawra argues. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states import roughly ...

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, affirmed today that Syria’s adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention rises far above the realm of legal obligation, according ...

Israel has intensified its bombardment of Lebanese territory, targeting Hezbollah positions in the south, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs. More than 31,000 people are now registered in ...