Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a ...

Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has captured Temir Dükancı, one of the perpetrators of the 2013 terror ...

Striking out on a new course when presented with two unpalatable options is very much a pattern in the life of Syrian ...

Order is being maintained by a patchwork of factions. Combining them into a national security apparatus is a delicate process ...

“I am the best tailor in Syria,” Chamntoub proclaims, beaming. “Back under the regime, there used to be a mukhabarat (military intelligence) agent posted on my street, specifically to watch m ...

The first thing he told me was, "Now, next time you see all the friends you meet here, check the shoes. If they're polished, they're Mukhabarat," they're information estate agents. They were ...

It was a small act of teenage defiance that sparked a revolution, a moment forever inscribed in Syrian history.

near the Martyr Bakour point on Al-Mukhabarat Street, in the presence of representatives of civil institutions and political parties as well as the residents of the neighborhood who participated in ...