Akram Bunni

On the morning of Eid, Khawla could not think of a place to visit where she could honor her husband, who had been killed in a Syrian regime prison, other than the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the European city where she had taken refuge. She had started planning this idea during the last few days…

The coronavirus and its implications and the increasingly deteriorating state of the economy, which is making it even harder to stay alive, are not the only new issues preoccupying Syrians. Indeed, an interlinked chain of events and phenomena have imposed themselves on the scene. First, the…

There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic will eventually recede, and societies will halt its spread one by one. The implications of the pandemic, however, will not stop. It will have implications on the current global scene and its political, economic, military and cultural relations, and on…

Unfortunately, the global scene burdened by the inability to control the coronavirus and the painful images of its victims is accompanied by political tensions, economic race, and feeding selfish interests and racial tensions, in a hideous competition between world leaders to invest in the event…

It is not strange that the Syrian regime dealt with the coronavirus pandemic as it deals with its other crises, especially the Syrian revolution, which celebrated its ninth anniversary a few days ago. It swung between, on the one hand, denying an irrefutable reality, blaming the things it must…

There has been a lot of talk about the dispute between Moscow and Ankara over influence in Syria. This talk stems from the clashes between factions aligned to each of the two sides and their contestation over the most important sites and facilities in rural Idlib and Aleppo, marking a new level of…