On 9 October, residents of the Dummar neighbourhood blocked roads to demand the cancellation of expropriation decrees, the return of their properties…
Stefano Summo
On 30 September, an explosion on gas lines feeding Syria’s Tishreen thermal power plant knocked it and two other generating stations offline…
On 25 September, Syrian authorities intercepted a shipment entering from Lebanon. Alongside 24 kilogrammes of hashish were 113 bottles of alcohol. It…
On 20 September, Syrian Energy Minister Mohammad al-Bashir entered the People’s Assembly facing a rare combination of street pressure and…
On 9 September, an explosion tore through a temporary weapons depot operated by Syria’s Defence Ministry near Sarmada in northern Idlib. The blast…
Assala Nasri has not yet taken the stage in Damascus, but her upcoming concert is already testing the boundaries of Syria’s post-Assad cultural order…
Last week, Syria’s Central Authority for Control and Inspection revealed serious irregularities in oil production and contracting in Deir ez-Zor. Its…
Sunday’s high-level Syrian-Israeli meeting in Amman, held under US mediation, was an urgent exercise in damage control. Convened days after Israel…
Mohammed Ghumaira, a 29-year-old former civil defence volunteer and father of two, survived years of war while helping rescue others. On 16 August,…
Syria’s new People’s Assembly has taken another important step towards becoming a functioning legislature. After five days of internal debate,…
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