February, a near-year-long plan to return the so-called ISIS brides to Australia – that had its genesis in what had appeared on paper to be an unsuccessful June 2025 meeting with the federal ...

The war that erupted across Turkey’s southern border in Syria, and the refugee crisis that followed, drove nearly 4m Syrians to Turkey in the early 2010s. Many of them settled in neighbourhoods such ...

Syria blames the unrest on a foreign conspiracy and "terrorist groups" that it says have taken advantage of protests to stir up unrest and destabilize Syria. But Assad has also acknowledged the need ...

NATO allies Turkey and the United States differed Monday on where they stand on the use of a key air base, with Turkish officials denying reports from the United States that there was a new agreement ...

Alongside the Shiite branch of Islam, other religious communities are also present in the country. Moreover, the factor of ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi in Erbil to discuss Syria's security and political situation. Both stressed stability, counterterrorism cooperation, and ...

Syria's new Constitutional Declaration explicitly adopts international human rights law. Although this is theoretically ...

Seven women with links to the self-proclaimed IS-group, and their children, have arrived weeks after three women were ...

Syria had already held types of limited elections in other areas of Syria last year. However, areas outside government control did not hold a vote.

After decades of denying Kurdish language and identity, Syria’s new leadership formally acknowledged the country’s Kurdish population earlier this year. But for many Kurds, the recognition remains ...

Editorial: The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule ...