January 12, 2026

Throwing a Kurdish Fighter’s Body From a Height: The Dilemma of Foreign Combatants

AL-MODON January 12, 2026

Investigations into the latest incident in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud district indicate that the fighter who threw the woman’s body “from a height” was not Syrian, but an Egyptian extremist, al-Modon writes.

Aleppo Through Two Views: Order as Law, Power as Terror

THE SYRIAN OBSERVER January 12, 2026

The military operation ended on Saturday morning in record time and with minimal losses

The Alawite Moment: Identity, Fear, and the Search for the State in Post-Assad Syria

ENAB BALADI January 12, 2026

The issue, then, is not whether Alawites will integrate into the new Syria, but whether Syria will succeed in becoming a state capable of integrating all its citizens, Enab Baladi argues.

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January 12, 2026

Throwing a Kurdish Fighter’s Body From a Height: The Dilemma of Foreign Combatants

Aleppo Through Two Views: Order as Law, Power as Terror

The Alawite Moment: Identity, Fear, and the Search for the State in Post-Assad Syria

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