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Key developments A new ETANA Center report says the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 has transformed Syria from a major Captagon producer into a regional transit corridor. Industrial...
Trial session and charges Atef Najib, a cousin of Bashar al-Assad and former head of political security in Deraa, appeared in the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus for the second session of a landmark...
Return convoy A new convoy of about 1,200 families from Afrin departed al-Hasakah on May 9, heading back to villages and towns in the Afrin area of Aleppo countryside. Preparations began Friday evenin...
Milan forum on EU-GCC cooperation The Doha Forum and the Mediterranean Dialogues, in partnership with Italy’s ISPI and the Center for International Policy Research, hosted an EU-GCC initiative at Pal...
What happened Australian authorities were alerted that four women and nine children held at Roj Camp in northeastern Syria have booked flights from Damascus to Australia. The Australian Federal Polic...
Detention and investigation Swedish authorities say the Coast Guard, working with police, boarded the Syrian‑flagged tanker Jin Hui in territorial waters south of Trelleborg and launched a preliminar...
Cairo talks between Syrian and Egyptian delegations Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani held expanded talks in Cairo with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, joined by Syria’s Minis...
Jordanian forces carried out a series of airstrikes in the Druze-majority Sweida province of southern Syria, striking at least five locations that Jordan says were used by arms and drug traff...
Since the July 12, 2025 kidnappings and ensuing clashes in Suwayda, the governorate has moved from controlled tension to an open crisis that reshaped local-state relations. A rapid sequence...
Situation in Qamishli A vacant school in Qamishli has become a makeshift shelter for dozens of displaced people after public schools were repurposed in January, hosting families who fled as Syrian go...
A senior Shiite cleric, Farhan al-Mansour, was killed Friday near Damascus after assailants hurled a grenade into his car, Syrian state media reported. Al-Mansour served as the main preacher...
Detention confirmed Syrian authorities have confirmed that 36-year-old German journalist Eva Maria Michelmann, who disappeared in January, is being held in Raqqa alongside a Kurdish-Turkish colleague...
Families and relatives of Syrians detained in Israeli army prisons staged a protest on April 26 outside the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Damascus, denouncing what they described as...
Trial opens in Damascus The first public trial of officials tied to Bashar Assad’s rule opened in Damascus on Sunday as Atef Najib — a former brigadier general and head of the Political Security Bran...
On the evening of April 24, explosions rocked the ruined city of Quneitra as Israeli army personnel carried out controlled detonations that demolished the Dagestan Mosque, the courthouse and...
Gunmen carried out coordinated attacks across Mali on Saturday, striking multiple sites in the capital Bamako and cities including Kati, Sévaré, Mopti, Kidal and Gao. The Malian army said “un...
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said Saturday that the death toll from Israeli attacks since March 2 has risen to 2,496, with 7,725 people wounded, after four more fatalities were rec...
