The attack in Palmyra reveals deep vulnerabilities in Syria’s security architecture, highlighting the challenges of reforming a fragmented state after conflict.
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Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where politics have swung sharply right.
A quarter of the 6 million Syrians who fled the country during the decadelong civil war have returned home in the past 12 months.
In 58 Facets, legal anthropologist Marika Sosnowski reflects on displacement, violence, resistance and her own family history.
Ahmed al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader in history to be invited to the White House.
Trump’s world order: praising Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as an ‘attractive guy’, while disparaging the first Muslim mayor of New York as a ‘lunatic communist’.
Research into these entrepreneurs may carry lessons for societies and governments around the world.
The home secretary has the power to remove a person’s British citizenship if they consider it ‘conducive to the public good’.
Women have won just six seats so far in the new 210-member parliament. This is not surprising considering how few were permitted to vote or stand as candidates.
The issue of returning Australian citizens connected to Islamic State has become a vexed issue. There are better ways to handle it.
A US-backed diplomatic push is trying to end months of Israeli attacks on Syria with a bilateral security pact. But concluding an agreement may prove a tall order.
The region’s authoritarian leaders have been buoyed by the loss of Iranian power. But such victories mask a region that is still very much beset by danger.
The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old tensions over Druze autonomy.
Lebanon has a long history of sectarian violence, and the recent events in Syria are causing alarm among its religious minorities, including the Druze.
Syria’s economy has been battered by war – the coming years will be decisive.
Israel’s strikes in Syria, framed as protecting the Druze, reflect a strategy to fragment the Syrian state and secure Israel’s role as the dominant regional power.
Recent prosecutions across Europe bring a glimmer of hope for the justice Yazidis have long been seeking.
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite and Druze communities.
Today, most of the Druze community is split between three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
The Syrian goivernment has lost control of the southern province of Sweida. This suits Israel just fine.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Head of School, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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