Fayez Sara

The Syrian conflict battered Syrians between 2011 and 2024. It drove more than half of them into a diaspora around the world, spread across more than 100 countries on all continents. The majority of this diaspora has been concentrated in three main regions. The first is the nearby neighboring…

Syrian President Ahmad al Sharaa renewed his rejection of intervention in Lebanon in response to multiple calls and demands for armed involvement against Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Al Sharaa stated that what is being said and circulated about intervention is unfounded. He added that Syria seeks to…

There has been a surge in arrests of criminals from the former regime, particularly pillars of its military forces and figures within its security apparatus. These arrests have been made on the basis of their involvement in vicious crimes: arbitrary arrests, torture, killings, forced disappearances…

Amjad Youssef has finally fallen into the hands of officers from the Syrian Ministry of Interior. He is among the most wanted figures of the Assad regime and among the most notorious war criminals of the regime’s war on its own people between 2011 and 2024 - a war that ended with the regime’s…

Syria is facing the most severe water crisis in modern history. All of Syria’s provinces have suffered, albeit to varying degrees, and it has had impacts on the majority of Syrians if not all of them. In characterizing the water crisis, it can be said that it is comprehensive. It is a major…

The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bashar al-Assad regime have been top of Syrians’ minds in the past five months since following the regime’s swift collapse in December 2024. The expectation had been that these sanctions would be lifted after the regime they had targeted was toppled…

Storms surround Syria, and some have hit neighboring countries. The latter have felt the impact domestically: Türkiye, its neighbor to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon to the west. The storms have also hit Israel, as can be seen in the struggle between Benjamin…

Idlib, in northwestern Syria, has witnessed large demonstrations in recent days, following a series of protests in cities and villages surrounding it, extending to some of the countryside of its sister city, Aleppo. These movements brought to mind scenes and chants of the first anti-regime…

As of early 2024, there were million and three hundred thousand documents tied to the Syrian struggle. Although this is a massive number, it could be considered small given the significance and scale of what has happened in Syria and all the foreign interventions it has witnessed over the past…

No one following developments in Syria disagrees that the situation has deteriorated to an unprecedented degree. Most observers believe the decline is accelerating, further exacerbating the situation in Syria, thereby prolonging the conflict, deepening the obstacles to resolving it, and raising the…