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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.

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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

السفير العراقي في الولايات المتحدة: الحرب مع "داعش" "اختبار حاسم" للعلاقات الأميركية-العراقية

يقول لقمان الفيلي، السفير العراقي في واشنطن، إنه على ضوء الطابع الملح للأزمة العراقية، "لن نكون في موقع يخوّلنا اختيار شركائنا، وسوف نرضى بكل من هو متوافر لمساعدتنا في حربنا من أجل البقاء".

A woman buys bread at a bakery in the city of Mosul, June 24, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday urging them to stand with Baghdad in the face of a Sunni insurgent onslaught that threatens to dismember the country. Picture taken June 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CONFLICT BUSINESS FOOD SOCIETY) - RTR3VNJJ

كيف يعيش الناس في مناطق داعش؟

Iraqi Sunni Muslims take part in an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad,April 19, 2013. Thousands of Sunni Muslims protested after Friday prayers in huge rallies against Shi'ite Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, demanding that he step down. REUTERS/Ali al-Mashhadani (IRAQ - Tags: RELIGION POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXYSEV

السعودية والعراق مسيرة طويلة من الشكوك

A woman stands on a balcony as she removes shattered glass beside bloodstains on the wall of a building at a site of an explosion in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut, early June 24, 2014. A suicide bomber blew up his car in southern Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing himself and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3VDDD

"داعش" في لبنان: انفجار للتضليل وهجوم من نقطتين

- PHOTO TAKEN 12MAY1999 - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (R) is decorated with a medal presented to him by his deputy Izzat Ibrahim in Baghdad in this May 12, 1999 file photo. Ibrahim, the most senior member of the former regime, has died, [Al Arabiya satellite television quoted a Baath party statement as saying on Friday.] He is number six on the U.S. military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis, with a $10 million reward offered for his capture. - RTXNYC5

معركة مؤجلة بين "داعش" و"السنة"

Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) celebrate on vehicles taken from Iraqi security forces, at a street in city of Mosul, June 12, 2014. Since Tuesday, black clad ISIL fighters have seized Iraq's second biggest city Mosul and Tikrit, home town of former dictator Saddam Hussein, as well as other towns and cities north of Baghdad. They continued their lightning advance on Thursday, moving into towns just an hour's drive from the capital. Picture taken June 12, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (I

تنظيم "داعش" والصحوة القاسية في الموصل

اعتبر إدوارد دارك أن العراقيين الذين رحّبوا ربما بتنظيم "الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام" (داعش) اعتقاداً منهم أنه يحمل إليهم التحرير، قد يصطدمون قريباً بصحوة قاسية؛ تقرير ميداني عن البراميل المتفجّرة في سوريا؛ لبنان والتهديد من تنظيم "داعش"؛ مقطع فيديو عن جوائز "رائد الإعلام الحر" التي يقدّمها معهد الصحافة الدولي.

"ليلة في حلب على وقع "البراميل

Iraqi Shiite Turkmen Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul arrive at Shangal, a town in Nineveh province, June 17, 2014. The mainly Turkmen city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, fell to Sunni militants late on Sunday, and the Iraqi military said it was sending reinforcement there. The Iraqi army said on state television it had killed a top militant, named Abu Abdul Rahman al-Muhajir, in Mosul in clashes. Picture taken June 17, 2014. REUTERS/ Ari Jala (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNR

14 فصيلاً مسلحاً بينه البعث احتل نينوى

A fighter from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stands near burning confiscated cigarettes in the city of Raqqa April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT RELIGION SOCIETY) - RTR3JOPD

3 أسباب للقلق في لبنان من "داعش" العراق

Mouaz al-Khatib, Former President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces speaks during the 11th US-Islamic World Forum, in Doha, on June 10, 2014. This years Forum is entitled Islam and Inclusion focuses on challenges of inclusion within Muslim communities around the world, especially in the context of governance, academia, religious institutions and civil society. The US-Islamic World Forum is a Brookings Institutions Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, in pa

معاذ الخطيب: الحرب السورية تطول تحت تأثير القوى الإقليمية

A Muslim prays at the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (The Mosque of the Prophet) before the early morning prayer of al-Fajr in the holy city of Medina January 16, 2014. Muslims marked Eid Mawlid al-Nabawi, or the birth of Prophet Mohammad, on January 14. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: RELIGION) - RTX17H44

جدل ثقافي سعودي حول الديمقراطية والسلفية

Families fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Mosul arrive at a checkpoint in outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, June 10, 2014. Radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of most of Iraq's second largest city of Mosul early on Tuesday, overrunning a military base and freeing hundreds of prisoners in a spectacular strike against the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY) - RTR3T260

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