Iraqi politician Izzat al-Shabandar’s meeting with Syria’s transitional president Ahmad al-Sharaa, two days ago in Damascus, was part of a high-level political and security coordination with the new Syrian leadership.

Syria’s Alawite communities are facing a new wave of violence, particularly in central regions and the western coastal areas, leaving at least 18 people dead in less than 48 hours.

Joulani is not an incidental byproduct but the final crystallization of a Saudi-nurtured Sunni Salafist identity.

Since December 8, the new Syrian government’s rhetoric has focused on two main points: first, portraying itself as the inheritor of a broken, devastated, and fractured state, burdened with debts that may be impossible to repay even in the medium term;

Anyone trying to understand Syria today would do well to compare the two Sharaas, one rooted in a history marked by both power and repression, and the other embodying a kind of political adolescence that now threatens what remains of Syria.

A delegation from the Autonomous Administration finally held its first committee-level meeting with representatives of the new Syrian government to discuss the implementation process of the March 10 agreement.

The Syrian administration under transitional president Ahmad al-Sharaa continues to expand communication channels with the Israeli entity, part of a US-conditioned openness that could lead to normalized relations.

In the first publicly announced confrontation under Syria’s transitional leadership, Syrian security forces raided an ISIS cell in Aleppo following the killing of a security officer in an earlier attack.

The new Syrian government revealed a nationwide security plan dividing the country into five main zones, part of its broader effort to rebuild security and military institutions after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

Less than six months after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria entered a path of actual partition, driven by bloodshed, sectarian chaos, and foreign interventions—particularly Turkish and Israeli. Since the start of the war in Syria in 2011, the collapse o