The Internal Security Forces Command in Homs province has instituted a temporary curfew across several villages in the western countryside, following an assault on a local administrative building, according to Shaam.
The uproar comes at a moment of growing tension between the Syrian public and the transitional government, which is already under scrutiny for its shortage of trained security personnel and its failure to enforce accountability for misconduct.
A grim pattern is taking shape in central Syria, and it is one the country’s transitional authorities can no longer ignore, al-Hal writes.
A voice recording attributed to Homs Police Chief Brigadier General Mouhafad al-Naasan circulated online shortly after the killing
Inside Syrian courts, the collapse of fair-trial standards is stark, Daraj argues.
Under the new arrangements, the legal status of these prisons and detention centers will be restructured within a unified judicial and penal framework overseen by the state and the Ministry of Justice, Syria TV reports.
Agriculture and livestock, long central to Syria’s food security, also sustained massive losses that will take years to recover, Zohair Hawari writes inAl-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The two men, identified as members of the Islamic State group, are accused of carrying out the bombing that struck the Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque.
The seizure order confirms that Nizam’s network extends beyond business partners to include his immediate family.
The ministry said the networks it targeted operated under the supervision of officers from the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, and that the total number of detainees suspected of crimes against Syrians reached 6,331.
The Internal Security Command in Latakia announced on Sunday, October 19, the opening of a new complaints office in the city.
The moral test of any new political order lies not in how it treats the majority, but in how it engages those with the least demographic weight, Wael Sawah writes for Daraj.
Local sources confirmed to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that clashes broke out between the Syrian Army and fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday night
In a land tormented by sectarian storms, the horizon may remain dim, Daraj writes.
Archbishop Julian Yaqoub Murad, head of the Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Homs and surrounding areas, told Al-Modon: “Pope Leo’s first apostolic visit to Lebanon—and to the broader Middle East—is not only for the Lebanese; it embraces us Syrians as well.”
During the visit, the minister and his delegation inspected the scene of a double homicide in the town of Zaidal, Shaam writes.
Amid rising sectarian tensions in post-revolutionary Syria, clashes erupted overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in parts of Lattakia and Homs—two pivotal cities anchoring the country’s western and central heartlands.
Ministry of Interior spokesman Nour al-Din al-Baba insisted that preliminary investigations have uncovered “no material evidence” of sectarian motivation behind the Zaidal crime.
As mid-2025 approached, Syria witnessed a sweeping purge that removed over sixty per cent of its serving judges.
The ministry’s spokesperson stated that a special committee had conducted inquiries across four governorates—Latakia, Tartous, Homs, and Hama.