A Journey to Damascus: The City, the Books, the People, and a Little Politics
The battered Iranian-made taxis that rattle through the streets remain a visible relic of the so-called era of resistance, Youssef Bezzi writes in Al-Modon.
The battered Iranian-made taxis that rattle through the streets remain a visible relic of the so-called era of resistance, Youssef Bezzi writes in Al-Modon.
Syrian women focus their efforts on dismantling discriminatory structures, foremost among them the Personal Status Law—one of the most entrenched instruments of inequality, Rosa Hassan writes for Daraj.
The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female militia within the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have declared they will maintain their armed presence despite the recent integration agreement between the Syrian government and the SDF.
Between 2016 and the fall of the former regime in late 2024, allegations of corruption within Aleppo’s city council deepened the problem, as oversight weakened and enforcement faltered.
His name became inseparable from the 1982 Hama massacre, when regime forces crushed an Islamist uprising, al-Thawra writes.
A medical source informed the agency that one fatality and ten injuries, all caused by sniper fire from the organization, had arrived at the National Hospital in the city.
The sociologist Siham Marwan offers a sobering interpretation: many communities still view women’s work as a temporary response to crisis rather than a long-term professional path, 963 writes.
Drawing on Acemoglu and Robinson’s The Narrow Corridor, Wael Sawah argues that freedom survives only when state power and social constraint advance in tandem
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.
This latest round in Paris marks a shift from total deadlock to procedural engagement, Syria TV writes.
Transitional justice is frequently cited as the way forward, but without political will, it remains a slogan—not a solution.
Khaled Khalil, an expert in Israeli affairs, characterised the assault on Beit Jinn as “an Israeli coup” against regional understandings.
Noureddine al-Baba stressed that the act was purely criminal in nature and devoid of any sectarian motive, according to Syria TV.
Ahmed al-Sharaa and the Prospect of Founding a New Chapter in History
The departure of Christians cannot be viewed as an internal matter alone. It signals the erosion of centuries-old cultural bridges between East and West, and the loss of a vital interlocutor in Syria’s intellectual, economic and diplomatic engagement with the wider world, Mohammed Berro writes.
The rockets were launched from the Lawan area in Kafr Sousa, on the outskirts of Damascus, Enab Baladi reports.
Officials from Syria’s Ministry of Interior announced that unknown individuals had broken into the museum in the capital.
A confidential source from the General Security Directorate told Ultra Syria that reconnaissance drones known as “Shaheen” were used overnight to track the leader of an armed group.
Women like Suad, a 38-year-old widow and mother of three, begin their day at dawn. After preparing breakfast, she leaves her children with relatives and sets out with her bag of products.
What appears on the surface as a condescending view of women is, in fact, a deliberate strategy to legitimize exclusion and reinforce hostility, Daraj claims.
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