Syria

Syria after Assad

How Syria’s captagon trade shifted to Sweida after Assad’s fall

Once a key smuggling corridor, Sweida has emerged as the drug's new hub in Syria, fuelled by weak state control and ongoing Israeli support for local armed factions
War on Iran
How the Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping the old world order
Idriss Hadj Nacer
War on Iran
Is Iran the new regional superpower?
Kayhan Barzegar
Syria after Assad
Syria's government begins to return Alawi lands, while maintaining its hold over others
Syria after Assad
Syria says missing chess champion’s six children likely killed under Assad
Syria after Assad
Euphrates flooding displaces thousands in Syria's Deir Ezzor
Israel's war on Lebanon
Israel's colonisation of south Lebanon is already under way
Paul Khalifeh
Sahel
In Mali, every foreign intervention failed - and jihadists adapted
Omar Ashour
War on Iran
Iran has won the war. Trump and Netanyahu now face a reckoning
David Hearst
Human Rights
How can you look at the horrors in Palestine and feel nothing?
Anas Altikriti
Heritage
The Renewal of Islam: An Oxford academic's antidote to bigoted narratives
Islamic State
Islamic State magazine features interview with captured Jordanian pilot
Syria War
Syria's Assad depending on Iran financial aid
Islamic State
IS magazine takes aim at 'misleading' Muslim scholars
Syria War
Syria's Assad promises jobs to relatives of killed soldiers
Lebanon Violence
Lebanon army clashes with militants in Arsal
Islamic State
IS downs warplane over Syria, claims capture of Jordan pilot
Syria War
Scores of Syrian civilians killed by Assad raids: reports
Diplomacy
Iraq, Turkey pledge to fight 'all terrorist organisations' in region
Syria War
Assad air strikes kill 37 civilians in Syria: monitor
Syria War
Syria 2014 death toll tops 39,000: NGO
Syria War
Syria ready to meet opposition in Moscow
Syria War
Syria ready to meet opposition in Moscow