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False improvement and speculation: What is happening to the Syrian pound?
Syrian markets are experiencing instability in the prices of basic goods as the black market exchange rate of the pound ...
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Who is Atef Najib, the man who fanned the flames of revolution in Daraa?
Syrian security forces arrested Brigadier General Atef Najib, a cousin of ousted president Bashar al-Assad and former head of ...
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US funding freeze upends global aid, brings Syrian civil society to a standstill
President Donald Trump threw the global aid architecture into chaos, issuing an executive order freezing foreign aid for 90 ...
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Manbij suffers seventh car bombing since SDF expelled
At least 15 people were killed and 18 injured—most of them women farmworkers—when a car bomb exploded Monday morning in ...
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Can Suwayda’s factions enforce security and stop the spread of weapons?
PARIS — The head of the Men of Dignity, the strongest faction in Syria’s Druze-majority Suwayda province, issued a directive this week stressing the importance of ending armed displays and enforcing ...
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In Syria’s ‘barrel bomb capital’ Darayya, housing crisis stalls return
Ghida Matar, 32, knew Darayya was mostly destroyed before she returned from Lebanon on December 31, weeks after the Assad ...
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Protection or intervention? Focus on Syria’s minorities sparks controversy, fuels hate speech
PARIS — Calls for Syria’s new authorities to guarantee equality and safety for Syria’s ethnic and religious minorities have been loud, locally and internationally, since the start of Operation ...
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Yasser al-Aiti: ‘A Syria without political parties will revert to tyranny’
What will Syria’s new system of government look like? What will its guiding principles be? Will the current de facto leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, lead Syria into a bright, unified future or a dark unknown ...