In recent days, the area around the Teishrin Dam has experienced a marked calm following months of deadly confrontations, North Press reports.
The decision comes after the killing of a pro-government commander and mounting tensions in southern Syria
Maher al-Sharaa is married to Tatiana Zakirova, a Russian national who also holds Syrian citizenship
Ghalioun stressed the urgency of initiating a bottom-up democratic transition—beginning with free local elections and democratic trade unions, Syria TV says.
A comprehensive review of Syrian diplomatic missions abroad is currently underway, Syria TV writes.
President Sharaa’s foreign visits carry extraordinary weight, al-Hurriya writes.
Millions of Syrians are now struggling to secure their most basic nutritional needs as living conditions continue to deteriorate, al-Araby al-Jadeed writes.
Drawing inspiration from the Prophet Muhammad’s sermon after the conquest of Mecca, Afraa Jalabi quotes his historic declaration of a new era in which all pre-Islamic violence, discrimination, and tribal vengeance were abolished.
In Syria, federalism may be a fact before it becomes a choice. In Lebanon, it is a choice haunted by history and loaded with unresolved fears, Daraj writes.
Symbolic violence against Alawites became a vessel for collective psychological release, Daraj argues.
Regarding the U.S. military presence in Syria, the State Department affirmed that no decision has been made about withdrawing American forces.
Syria’s transitional government embodies a profound paradox: it is both the fruit of revolutionary achievement and the object of revolutionary expectation.
The Secretariat will oversee domestic political activities, participate in formulating national policies, and manage the assets of the dissolved Ba’ath Party and former ruling coalition, al-Modon reports.
Syria’s fragile post-conflict transition was shaken this week by a series of brutal armed attacks that left at least 13 civilians dead, Zaman al-Wasl writes.
The transitional authority is not reconstructing the state, but reconstituting obedience as a totalising structure, Malik al-Hafez argues.
Israeli intelligence believes that Syria’s new government is working to restore military installations and missile systems in the country’s south, Shaam writes.
The UAE has yet to send a high-level delegation to Syria, but the dynamics is shifting, Enab Baladi writes.
The new cabinet, composed of 22 ministers, reflects a blend of technocrats, returnees from the diaspora, symbolic minority figures, and key holdovers from the interim ruling coalition dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
The new authorities have shown clear discomfort with political parties, preferring instead to engage with citizens as representatives of regions or local communities, Hussam Jazmati writes in Syria TV.
Before Assad’s fall, the 4th Division, led by Maher al-Assad, facilitated smuggling in exchange for bribes. But informal crossings are still very much present, Jana Duhaibi writes.
