Israel targets a Ministry of Defense building in Umayyad Square in central Damascus - multiple strikes were reported. Israel is determined to create more instability. My thoughts with family, friends and loved ones.

Yesterday, the Syrian transitional government was meant to release its report on the massacres which happened on the coast in March, in which many Alawite civilians were killed. There has been no news about it. Not even an announcement about its delay. Many Syrians are rightly angry.

Recommend this webinar Syria at the Crossroads: Regional Politics and the Movement for Palestine

"decentralization is not a step toward partition, but a mechanism for redistributing power and resources. Empowering local communities to manage their affairs isn’t a threat to national unity – it’s a condition for its survival." https://aljumhuriya.net/en/2025/06/17/a-way-out-of-syrias-deadlock/?utm_source=aljumhuriya.net&utm_campaign=024bcec1c5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_31_08_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-eb344b42da-203166296

The 'Detainees and the Disappeared' installation in Damascus enshrines harrowing stories of individual imprisonment into a collective archive to remind future generations of their pain and sacrifice

Art exhibit on Syrian prisons helps preserve the pain of a nation

The 'Detainees and the Disappeared' installation in Damascus enshrines harrowing stories of individual imprisonment into a collective arc...

The Samoud convoy, which left Algeria yesterday, has arrived in Libya on it's way to the Rafah crossing to break the siege on Gaza

My latest on Syria, six months after Assad's fall https://www.newarab.com/opinion/syria-stirs-beneath-hesitant-dawn-six-months-after-assad-fall

On this episode of STIR I'm joined by Swiss-Syrian academic, researcher and author Joseph Daher to talk about the removal of sanctions and future economic prospects for Syria. On all podcast apps and Patreon. Support us there! https://www.patreon.com/posts/130837380

On Episode 3 of Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution, myself and @Elia Ayoub (he/him) spoke with Ziad Majed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian historian, journalist and writer Samir Kassir

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution – From The Periphery Media

In case you missed it, here's a recording of the webinar I did with Wafa Mustafa & Djene Rhys Bajalan, hosted by MERIP and SPECTRE examining the difficult questions arising from the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria