Fayez Sara

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…

Türkiye continues to deport Syrians to the Turkish-controlled regions in Northwestern Syria. These areas are governed by groups affiliated with Türkiye, the most prominent of which include the Syrian Interim Government formed by the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces,…

The mutiny in Russia recently launched by the founder and leader of “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin is doubtlessly a major challenge to the Russian authorities and to President Vladimir Putin personally. This is true both domestically and internationally. While the debacle is tied to positions of power…