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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

Jordanian protesters hold up pictures of Jordan's King Abdullah and Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh, as they chant slogans during a march after Friday prayers in downtown Amman February 6, 2015. Thousands of Jordanians gathered to show their loyalty to the King and to show solidarity with the family of the pilot, Muath al-Kasasbeh, killed by Islamic State. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4OI2P

تعزية حماس بالطيّار الأردنيّ: الإنسانيّ والسياسيّ

An Israeli soldier speaks on his mobile phone at a military outpost on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights over looking the Israel-Syria border February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4O8R8

الإيرانيّ و"حزب الله" واسرائيل ثلاثة أسباب ومنطقة واحدة

A Shi'ite fighter holds his weapon while guarding on the outskirts of Diyala province, north of Baghdad February 2, 2015.Picture taken February 2, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT) - RTR4O0KC

آراء متفاوتة حول الميليشيات الشيعية في العراق وسوريا

يحذر خبراء أمريكيون من تحويل العراق وسوريا إلى "حزب الله" ولكن في الوقت الحالي لا تتوفر بدائل أخرى للميليشيات الشيعية المدعومة من إيران لدحر المجموعة التي تطلق على نفسها اسم الدولة الإسلامية.

أوباما: "برنامج إيران لم يتقدّم"

حلفاء الولايات المتّحدة الأميركيّة مذهولون بسبب مهلة آذار/مارس للنظر في مشروع قانون مجلس الشيوخ لتشديد العقوبات؛ بادرة إيران تجاه المملكة العربيّة السعوديّة؛ رجل إيران في بيروت؛ انقلاب أردوغان على الغرب؛ نقص الوقود في حلب؛ إسرائيل تبدأ بتقبّل حماس؟

A Kurdish boy waves a Kurdish flag during celebrations after it was reported that Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani, in Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo January 27, 2015. Kurdish forces battled Islamic State fighters outside Kobani on Tuesday, a monitoring group said, a day after Kurds said they took full control of the northern Syrian town following a four-month battle. REUTERS/Hosam Katan (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4N52W

المناطق الكرديّة ملاذ للنّازحين

A woman reporter runs with a rebel fighter to avoid snipers at the frontline against the Islamic State fighters in Aleppo's northern countryside October 10, 2014. REUTERS/Jalal Al-Mamo (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR49POS

صحافيّو الحرب هدف الإرهاب والصحافيّون في الحرب هدف الموت يوميّاً!

Turkish army special force members stand guard during the EFES-2010 military exercise in Izmir May 25, 2010. REUTERS/ Osman Orsal (TURKEY - Tags: MILITARY) - RTR2ECRB

هل الجنود الأتراك حرّاس أم رهائن عرضيّون عند الضريح السوريّ؟

إنّ التأخير في تبديل الجنود الأتراك الذي يحرسون ضريح سليمان شاه في سوريا يثير الإحباط.

Lebanese army troops drive an armoured personnel carrier (APC) in the village of Ras Baalbak in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria during clashes between Islamist fighters and Lebanese troops on Jananuary 23, 2015, leaving casualties on both sides. Gunmen launched a large-scale attack on an army outpost close to Ras Baalbek, near Lebanon's eastern frontier with Syria, an area that has seen regular incursions from militants fighting in Syria's war. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should

هجوم رأس بعلبك يهدف إلى خطف المزيد من العسكريّين

Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Jafari holds a press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2012. Jafari said members of his elite special operations unit, the Quds Force, are present in Syria and Lebanon but only to provide "counsel." AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/GettyImages)

حذّر قائد إيراني أنّ ردّ حزب الله كان "بالحد الأدنى"

قال قائد الحرس الثوري الإيراني إنّ على إسرائيل توقّع ردّ أقوى.

Red Crescent members and residents remove a dead body from a damaged site after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Douma eastern Al-Ghouta, near Damascus January 25, 2015. Islamist fighters struck the Syrian capital with at least 38 rockets on Sunday, killing seven people, a monitoring group said, in one of heaviest attacks on Damascus in over a year. State media confirmed the attack and said at least four people were killed. It said the army was ret

سكان دمشق وريفها ..بين صواريخ المعارضة وبراميل النظام

U.N. peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol in Kfar Kila village in south Lebanon, near the border with Israel, January 28, 2015. Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict between the militant Islamist group and Israel. REUTERS/Aziz Taher (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR4NCBP

واشنطن تكبح الردّ الاسرائيليّ؟!

Lebanese soldiers gesture while riding on an armoured vehicle as they leave the mountainous border town of Ras Baalbek January 24, 2015. The Lebanese army said on Saturday three more soldiers were killed in fighting on Friday between troops and militants who attacked an army post near the border with Syria. The army said on Friday it lost five soldiers in an attack near the village of Ras Baalbek in an area that has seen regular incursions by Islamist militants fighting in Syria. REUTERS/Hassan Abdallah (LE

الجيش اللبنانيّ أمام خيارات خطيرة