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Armed Forces Face-Off Across the Euphrates, Putting Syria at Risk of Rupture
Similar to much of its contemporary history, Syria once again finds itself staring down a perilous crossroads. Nine months after the fall of Bashar...
Humanitarian Corridor Dispute Threatens Israel-Syria Talks – Exclusive
Efforts to create a security agreement between Syria and Israel have stalled due to Israel's request for a "humanitarian corridor" into Syria's Sweida province....
U.S. Diplomats on Syria Dismissed Amid Pro-Damascus Policy Shift
Recently, several senior U. S. diplomats focused on Syria have been removed from their positions. This change comes as the U. S. aims to...
Diplomatic Wins, Domestic Losses: Sharaa Struggles to Contain Syria’s Internal Divide
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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
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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...