Subject: Politics and Governance

The 5th October 2025 parliamentary elections were presented as a landmark in Syria’s post-Assad transition, yet the process demonstrated authoritarian ...

Building on the ceasefire brokered between Syria, Jordan and the US in late July, the three countries last week announced ...

As interim President Ahmad al-Shara’a travels to New York to attend the UN General Assembly, he departs an increasingly fractured ...

There has been no change to the map of control in Suwayda since ETANA’s last reporting in late August. Suwayda’s ...

The Suwayda crisis has laid bare the dangers of militarised governance, exclusionary politics, and top-down transition models. Without a fundamental ...

Following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syria found itself at a critical juncture, a turbulent phase marked by deep ...

Download PDF Published in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Lebanon, this study assesses returns by refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) ...

Last week marked six months since the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the beginning of the fragile, fast-moving political transition ...

The eruption of sectarian violence in Jaramana and Ashrafiyat Sahnaya–two Druze-majority areas located to the south and south-east of Damascus–marks ...

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding urgent political reforms and inclusive governance, aiming to end decades of cronyism ...