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أكتوبر 15, 2026

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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

Rebel fighters gather near the front line in Ratain village, north of Aleppo February 17, 2015. The Syrian army backed by allied militia have captured several villages near Aleppo in battles aimed at encircling the northern city and cutting off insurgent supply lines, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. The army also took villages including Bashkuwi and Sifat, while fighting raged in Hardatain and Ratain, said the Observatory, which tracks the Syrian conflict using sources on the ground. It added that at le

المرحلة الحاسمة في حلب.. تكلف النظام وحزب الله خسائر فادحة

A Palestinian policeman loyal to Hamas stands guard near burning tyres during a protest by Palestinians calling for reconstruction of their houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, outside a United Nations food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip February 16, 2015. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) - RTR4PQSX

حماس تنتظر انفراج أزمة المنطقة العربيّة لحسم موقفها

Photographers and members of the media watch the Syrian town of Kobani from atop a hill on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province October 15, 2014. American-led forces sharply intensified air strikes against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border on Monday and Tuesday after the jihadists' advance began to destabilise Turkey. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (TURKEY - Tags: CONFLICT POLITICS) - RTR4A8TR

الحرب الإعلاميّة الكرديّة ضدّ تنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة "داعش"

A woman supporter of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement holds onto an image of the movement's slain commander Imad Mughniyeh during a Hezbollah parade in the city of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon on December 19, 2010, to mark the 13th day of Muharram-Ashura, where believers mourn the killing of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, Imam Hussein, in the seventh century, during the battle of Karbala in central Iraq. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

هل كان القائد العسكري في حزب الله مغنية هدفًا غير متعمّد؟

في حديثٍ مع المونيتور، يتحدث مصدر من بيروت عن اغتيال القائد العسكري في حزب الله عماد مغنية في عام 2008 وأن منفذي العمليّة قد لم يدركوا أنهم كانوا يستهدفون مغنية الذي كان يصعب الوصول إليه.

Rebel fighters of al-Jabha al-Shamiya (the Shamiya Front) sit in an armoured vehicle along a main road between Raitan and Bashkuwi villages, north of Aleppo February 19, 2015. Battles in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo have killed at least 70 pro-government fighters and more than 80 insurgents after the army launched an offensive there, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Rami Zayat (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY) - RTR4Q8LA

هل يجب أن تدعم الولايات المتّحدة خطّة الأمم المتّحدة لوقف إطلاق النار في حلب؟

يقول المبعوث الأممي إلى سوريا إنّ "الضمانات لن تكون كافية" لإنهاء القتال؛ الحدود التركيّة "مشكلة استراتيجيّة" في الحملة ضدّ تنظيم الدولة الإسلاميّة.

Rebel fighters fire a mortar towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad who are stationed in Tel Merhi and Deir Adass villages, from the northwestern countryside of Deraa February 18, 2015. Heavy fighting in southern Syria has killed scores of pro-government and insurgent fighters in the past week, a group monitoring Syria's war said on Sunday, forecasting even fiercer violence as the weather clears. Picture taken February 18. REUTERS/Wsam Almokdad (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLIC

معركة "الحسم" في درعا... حرب عصابات وكرّ وفرّ

Militant Islamist fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. The fighters held the parade to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), posted pictures online on Sunday of people waving black flags from cars and holding guns in the air, the SITE m

من يقبض على السلطة الفعلية في "الدولة الإسلامية"؟

يضطلع مجلس الشورى في "الدولة الإسلامية" بمسؤوليات تتراوح من الموافقة على الخطابات إلى تقديم المشورة حول أساليب الإعدام.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin (L) and Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) of Saudi Arabia talk through their interpreters during a plenary session at the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane November 15, 2014. Western leaders attending the G20 summit blasted Putin on Saturday for the crisis in Ukraine, threatening further sanctions if Russia did not withdraw troops and weapons from its neighbouring nation. REUTERS/Rob Griffith/Pool (AUSTRALIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS ROYALS) - RTR4E8XK

التوتر يتصاعد بين السعودية وروسيا

أدّت سياسات روسيا المثيرة للجدل في الشرق الأوسط إلى بلوغ التوتر مع السعودية آفاقاً جديدة في المنطقة وفي روسيا.

Syrian women walk past items on display at a shop in Damascus on Valentine's day on February 14, 2015. AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA (Photo credit should read LOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images)

الحرب تقتل الحب في سوريا

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (L) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a meeting in Moscow, October 21, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR4AYVB

الأمم المتّحدة وروسيا تأخذان زمام المبادرة في المساعي الدبلوماسية في سوريا

العلاقات بين روسيا ومصر تدخل "مرحلة جديدة"؛ مبادرات الأمم المتّحدة وروسيا هي الأمل الوحيد حتّى الآن لتسوية سياسيّة في سوريا؛ أردوغان يروّج لـ"قانون الأمن الداخلي".

Residents warm themselves by a fire on New Year's Eve in eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus December 31, 2014. Residents have been facing an electricity blackout for 2 years, activists said. Picture taken December 31, 2014. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh (SYRIA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR4JSA6

الكهرباء والمحروقات باتت من الكماليّات في المنزل الدمشقيّ

A Lebanese soldier stands guard in front of a ship that delivered military donation from the U.S. government to the Lebanese army, during a ceremony at Beirut's port February 8, 2015. More than 70 M198 Howitzers, as well as 26 million rounds of ammunition including small, medium, and heavy artillery rounds, were delivered on Sunday from the United States as military aid to the Lebanese army. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR4OOO9

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