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Diplomatic Wins, Domestic Losses: Sharaa Struggles to Contain Syria’s Internal Divide
Background
Nine months after Ahmed al-Sharaa seized power in Syria, Damascus stands at a fragile crossroads. While Sharaa has scored major diplomatic wins, including U.S....
Russia Pursues Strategic Interests in Syria with Novak-led Visit
NEWS BRIEF
Russia has dispatched a high-level delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak to Syria, marking its most significant diplomatic engagement with the...
Syria Exports Crude Oil for First Time in Over a Decade
TARTUS, Syria, Sept 1- Syria exported 600,000 barrels of heavy crude oil on Monday from the port of Tartus as part of a deal...
Alarm Bells Sounding in Syria
Since the collapse of the Assad regime in December, Syrians have been free to breath and dream, again. This moment, however, did come cheaply,...
Kurdish Disarmament Reshapes Dynamics in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran—but Uncertainty Remains
After more than forty years of armed struggle, a Kurdish-linked group, the PKK, in northern Iraq has begun disarming—a dramatic gesture that signals a...
The death of Christian diplomacy: Theology meets geopolitics in Damascus
On the morning of June 22, 2025, during the Divine Liturgy, a suicide bomber entered the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Elijah in Damascus....
From Sykes-Picot to a Greater Syrian Emirates: Post-Assad Syria
The Hamas ‘terror blow’ of October 7, 2023, was intended, in the eyes of the initiator, Yahya Sinwar, to serve as a trigger that...
Erasing Assyrians: The Kurdish Nationalist Project
The Assyrians, an indigenous people with over 6,775 years of history and one of the world’s earliest Christian communities, are vanishing from their ancestral...
From Wanted Fugitive to Diplomatic Partner: Unmasking America’s War on Terror
The image of Donald Trump shaking hands with Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syria’s current leader, in Riyadh is one that, until recently, would have seemed unimaginable....
How to achieve long-term peace in Syria
On 8 December 2024, a shocking headline broke across news outlets around the world: rebel groups took control of Syria, ending the devastating reign...