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Palmyra

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أكتوبر 14, 2026

Damascus 10:17 م

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Demonstrators ride through a street while waving Syrian flags

Analysis

لماذا تتبنى سوريا والعراق نهجين مختلفين تجاه الجماعات المسلحة؟

Shelly Kittleson

بواسطة Shelly Kittleson

In Baghdad, reporting on Iraqi politics

A view of the Great Umayyad Mosque during the reopening ceremony, Oct. 8, 2026.

Culture

أعادت سوريا فتح الجامع الأموي الكبير في حلب، الذي يعود تاريخه إلى 1300 عام، بعد 13 عاماً

تعمل السلطات السورية على ترميم المعالم الثقافية والمواقع الأثرية التي تضررت أو دُمرت خلال الحرب الأهلية.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Oct. 6, 2026.

Analysis

لماذا يُعد إرسال سوريا قوات إلى اليمن رهانًا محفوفًا بالمخاطر بالنسبة لشرع؟

تصر سوريا على أنها لن ترسل قوات لمحاربة الحوثيين إلى جانب السعودية، لكن اعتمادها الاقتصادي على الرياض قد يعقد مقاومة دمشق للفكرة.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Youths play the daf, an Iranian frame drum, during a protest demanding the right to education in the Kurdish language in Al-Qamishli, Syria, on September 22, 2026. The demonstrations follow a decision by the Syrian Interim Government to allocate only Kurdish language classes in schools. (Photo by Amjad Kurdo / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Culture

يجد الأكراد والعرب في سوريا قضية مشتركة في معركتهم من أجل الحقوق اللغوية

في ظل احتجاجات الطلاب الأكراد على القيود اللغوية، تظهر تحالفات غير متوقعة بين الأكراد والعرب في سوريا.

Latest News

شرع سوريا في الرياض مع تعرض المطارات السعودية لهجمات الحوثيين: ما يجب معرفته

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Oct. 6, 2026.

الإمارات وسوريا تمضيان قدماً في مشاريع تطوير عقاري ضخمة بقيمة 20 مليار دولار

A view of a traffic roundabout in central Latakia, Syria on June 12, 2025. The city's road network converges near the coast, forming one of the busiest urban intersections in the province. (Photo by Omar Albaw / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by OMAR ALBAW/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

سوريا تنفي لقاءها مع حزب الله اللبناني في تركيا: ما يجب معرفته

لبنان يسعى للحصول على مساعدة تركيا للانضمام إلى خط السكك الحديدية بين سوريا والسعودية: ما يجب معرفته

A picture taken on May 1, 2019 shows a railroad of Mar Mikhael neighborhood in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

آمبرین زمان

Chief Correspondent

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

علي هاشم

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict

علي هاشم

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict

Displaced Sunni women fleeing the violence in Ramadi, carry bags as they walk on the outskirts of Baghdad, May 24, 2015. Iraqi forces recaptured territory from advancing Islamic State militants near the recently-fallen city of Ramadi on Sunday, while in Syria the government said the Islamists had killed hundreds of people since capturing the town of Palmyra. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX1ED8I

بغداد تتلعثم في قضية اللاجئين في مدينة الرمادي

هجّرت الدولة الإسلامية 180 ألف نازح عراقي من الرمادي؛ تستفيد الدولة الإسلامية من التدخل العسكري السعودي في اليمن وجبهة النصرة تسعى إلى إعادة ترتيب صفوفها.

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, who were captured by Islamist militants in Arsal, carry pictures of two of them during a protest demanding their release and pressuring the government to act, as they blocked a main road linking Tripoli to Halba, in al-Mhmara town, northern Lebanon August 30, 2014. Islamic State militants beheaded a Lebanese soldier who was one of 19 captured by hardline Syrian Islamists when they seized a Lebanese border town for few days this month, a video posted on social media showed on

إطلاق العسكريين المخطوفين: آمال وعلامات استفهام

People stand by part of a Saudi fighter jet found in Bani Harith district north of Yemen's capital Sanaa May 24, 2015. Local media said that the Houthi rebels brought down a Saudi F-16 fighter jet north of Sanaa early on Sunday. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RTX1EAP8

هل الدولة الإسلامية "ثاني أولويات" السعودية؟

الرياض منشغلة بالحملة العسكرية في اليمن. علي أكبر ولايتي يقول للمسؤولين اللبنانيين إنّ المساومة على الأسد غير ممكنة والحزب التركي المعارض يتعرّض للهجوم قبل انتخابات 7 حزيران/يونيو.

Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's top adviser on international affairs, arrives to deliver a news conference after meeting with Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the government palace in Beirut May 18, 2015. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir - RTX1DGJ6

مستشار خامنئي في بيروت: رسائل متعددة ومختصرة

The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah parliamentary bloc Mohamed Raad speaks during a news conference in Beirut March 4, 2011. Raad spoke out against the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), which was established in 2007 to prosecute, under Lebanese law, criminal acts relating to the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Lebanon. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) - RTR2JFBJ

محمح رعد: حزب الله سيكون حيث يجب أن يكون لمنع وقوع سوريا في أيدي الإرهابيين

U.S. and Jordanian soldiers participate in Exercise Eager Lion at the Jordan-Saudi Arabia border, south of Amman May 18, 2015. Around 10,000 participants from 18 countries will take part in Eager Lion. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - RTX1DI9O

مشروع قانون الإنفاق الدفاعيّ يؤمّن دعماً للأردن

أصدر المسؤولون عن مخصّصات الدفاع في مجلس النوّاب الأميركيّ مشروع قانون للسنة الماليّة 2016 يسعى إلى مساعدة الأردن على محاربة تنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة.

Syrian refugees wait with their luggage and belongings outside a hotel in Beirut to be transported by buses to Beirut international airport for resettlement in Germany April 15, 2014. About 300 Syrian refugees departed early morning from Beirut to Germany on a private chartered flight where they will be offered resettlement, UNHCR, which has been assisting the refugees in Lebanon, said. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTR3LBDE

شتاينماير في بيروت: كلام صريح حول أمر خطير

A Lebanese Army vehicle drives down a mountain next to Ras-Baalbek, a Christian village on the outskirts of Arsal, August 30, 2014. Lebanese Christian fighters from three Christian villages that surround Arsal have been training for about three years and guarding their villages for the past year fearing a violent spillover from nearby Arsal, which is controlled by Islamic militias, according to the fighters. Picture taken August 30, 2014. REUTERS/Alia Haju (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) -

نصرالله يحدّد المعركة المقبلة... ويحذّر

U.S. President Barack Obama looks back toward Oman Deputy Prime Minister Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said (L) and the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (2nd L) while hosting the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at Camp David in Maryland May 14, 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RTX1D0ZQ

إجماع بشأن إيران بين أوباما وقادة مجلس التعاون الخليجي

خلص بيان القمّة إلى أنّ الاتّفاق النووي "الشامل والقابل للإثبات" "يصبّ في المصلحة الأمنيّة" لجميع الأطراف؛ كيري يشدّد على الحاجة إلى تعاون أميركي- روسي بشأن سوريا.

A general view shows a besieged hospital, the last remaining Syrian army foothold in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, in the province of Idlib May 3, 2015. Syrian troops backed by heavy air strikes have edged closer to a hospital in northwestern Syria where dozens of Syrian soldiers and loyalist fighters have been holed up for the past two weeks, the army said on Sunday. The town was overrun last month by insurgents, including al Qaeda's wing in Syria, Nusra Front. Picture taken May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Abd

إستراتيجية إيران الجديدة في سوريا

يبدو أنّ تورّط إيران وحلفائها مثل حزب الله في الحرب الأهلية السورية يزداد.

Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are seen at al-Sakhra village in Qalamoun Mountains, northeast of Damascus, after taking control of the village from rebel fighters April 14, 2014. Syrian soldiers backed by Hezbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, on Monday, military sources and state television said, further squeezing rebels' supply routes through the Qalamoun mountains into Lebanon. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UN

القلمون: قراءتان متناقضتان لمعركة واحدة

Peshmerga fighters stand guard at Mosul Dam in northern Iraq August 21, 2014. Despite its structural faults, the country's biggest dam at 3.6 km long, built by a German-Italian consortium in the 1980s, is a vital water and power source for Mosul, Iraq's largest northern city of 1.7 million residents. Control the dam and you control the 'keys' to the city. With that in mind, Islamic State insurgents who captured swathes of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate, wrested control of the dam from Kurdish force

"داعش" يدقّ طبول حرب المياه في الشرق الأوسط