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
IS executed 100 foreign fighters who tried to quit: report
Syria War
Assad tells Iran's Larijani he backs local truces
Syria War
UN report shows utter devastation of Syria's heritage
Syria War
Syria army air strike hits school bus, kills four children
Syria War
Shiite Afghans fighting for Syria's Assad: monitor
Syria War
Mass grave found in Syria as thousands look to leave the country
Syria War
Iran 'transformed' Syrian army into militia: analysis
Islamic State
Two Rudaw journalists held by Islamic State militants in Syria
Human Rights
Americans suffer from the psychosis of 'Superpower Syndrome'
CJ Werleman
Diplomacy
A US resurgence in the Arab world?
Sharif Nashashibi
Islamic State
Airstrikes kill IS leaders as US warns war will take 3 more years
Diplomacy
Turkey, Qatar express 'common concern' over Syria