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أبريل 30, 2026

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A young man stands in the entrance of tunnels that were used by the ISIS and the Assad's regime for fighting. Tadamon, Syria, February 7, 2025. (Photo by Raghed Waked / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by RAGHED WAKED/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

سوريا تعتقل أمجد يوسف، منفذ مجزرة التضامن: ما يجب معرفته

ظهر أمجد يوسف في مقطع فيديو يُزعم أنه قتل عشرات المدنيين في عام 2013، وهو أحدث عضو في نظام الأسد يتم القبض عليه من قبل الحكومة السورية الجديدة.

President of Syria Ahmed al-Shara arrives for the 80th session of the UN’s General Assembly (UNGA) at UN Headquarters on Sept. 23, 2025 in New York City.

Analysis

هل الأمر يستحق كل هذا العناء؟ تواجه الفنانة السورية شارة ردود فعل عنيفة بسبب أدائها لأغنية ميسي إليوت.

اندلعت ردود فعل عنيفة بعد أن قدم الراقصون عرضاً على أنغام أغنية "Work It" لميسي إليوت، مما كشف عن التوازن الدقيق بين انفتاح شارة على الغرب والضغط من قاعدته الإسلامية.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives ahead of a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in central London on March 31, 2026.

يقوم شرع، رئيس الوزراء السوري، بزيارته الرابعة إلى السعودية، والأولى منذ الحرب مع إيران: ما يجب معرفته

تأتي هذه الزيارة في ضوء تعميق العلاقات الاقتصادية بين سوريا والمملكة العربية السعودية في أعقاب سقوط الأسد.

Members of Iraq's security forces stand guard on the the al-Rabia border crossing with Syria on April 20, 2026.

كيف يُعيد فتح سوريا لحدودها مع العراق تعريف التوازن بين تركيا والأكراد

بعد سنوات من الإغلاق، فإن إعادة فتح معبر اليعربية تعيد رسم النفوذ الاقتصادي الكردي وتفرض إعادة معايرة استراتيجية تركيا الإقليمية.

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الاتحاد الأوروبي يعيد تفعيل اتفاقية التعاون بشأن سوريا قبل محادثات مايو: ما يجب معرفته

Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP via Getty Images

شرع يسعى إلى النأي بنفسه عن الحرب مع إيران، ويقول إن المحادثات مع إسرائيل جارية لكنها "صعبة": ما يجب معرفته

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkish Presient Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Antalya Diplomatic Forum in Turkey April 17, 2026.

Analysis

هل تستعد جبهة التحرير السورية لتجاوز تركيا في إضفاء الطابع الرسمي على المكاسب التي حققها الأكراد؟

Kurdish people waving Kurdistan flags gather to celebrate Nowruz on the hill of Urkesh in the countryside of Amuda in northeastern Syria on March 18, 2026. Nowruz, meaning "new day," is an ancient festival that marks the start of spring and the new year on the vernal equinox, which usually falls on March 20 or 21. It is celebrated by more than 300 million people worldwide and has been observed for over 3,000 years across regions including the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus and parts of Eastern Euro

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Analysis

كيف يمكن للحرب مع إيران أن تساعد سوريا في إدارة شؤون تركيا ومنافسيها الإقليميين

This handout photograph provided by the Turkish Foreign Ministry press service shows Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (L) meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani (R) in Damascus on Dec. 22, 2025.

Amberin Zaman

بواسطة Amberin Zaman

Reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

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

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

هل تستطيع الضربة التي وجّهتها إسرائيل إلى حزب الله في سوريا تفعيل المحادثات النوويّة الإيرانيّة؟

قد تكون المواجهة الأخيرة بين إسرائيل وحزب الله عاملاً محفّزًا لإبرام اتفاق نووي بين مجموعة 5+1 وإيران؛ تستطيع إيران تخفيف المأزق الأمني السعودي؛ يرى نتنياهو مكسبًا انتخابيًا في ازدرائه لأوباما.

A Lebanese army soldier holds his weapon after being deployed to tighten security, following clashes between Lebanese soldiers and Islamist gunmen in Tripoli, northern Lebanon October 27, 2014. Guns fell silent in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday after two days of deadly battles between the army and Islamist gunmen, some of the worst fighting to spill over into Lebanon from Syria's civil war next door. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTR4BR7A

الإرهابيّون يستعدّون لمهاجمة موقع استراتيجيّ!

Syrians stand in a queue to get a visa stamp entering Lebanon town during their arrival at the Lebanese Masna'a border point in eastern Bekaa of Lebanon January 22, 2013.
REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3CSRV

فيزا لدخول السوريّين إلى لبنان أم مجرّد إجراءات؟

Lebanon's Hezbollah members carry the coffin of Jihad Moughniyah during his funeral in Beirut's suburbs January 19, 2015. The son of Hezbollah's late military leader Imad Moughniyah was killed in an Israeli helicopter strike in Syria on Sunday, a statement from the group said. The man (bottom C, wearing glasses) is the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohamed Raad. REUTERS/Aziz Taher (LEBANON - Tags: OBITUARY MILITARY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4M0GK

الحرس الثوري الإسلامي يتعهد بالثأر بعد الغارة الإسرائيلية

يقول القادة العسكريون الإيرانيون إن الغارة الإسرائيلية على موكب "حزب الله" في سوريا لن تردعهم.