Subject: Security and Defense

Regime forces continue to use a dual strategy of incentive and coercion to manage the evolving protest movement in southern ...

Although far smaller than protests currently sweeping neighboring Suwayda, anti-regime demonstrations have continued in Daraa on an almost daily basis ...

This reporting period covers the month of July. In mid-July, Brigadier-General Manaf Tlass, defector Syrian army officer and former regime ...

This reporting period covers the month of July.Major clashes between the majority-Arab Deir Ezzor Military Council and other factions of ...

This reporting period covers the month of July.After concluding its settlement drive in Daraa province last month, the regime has ...

This reporting period covers the month of June.Clandestine ISIS activity has quieted somewhat in recent weeks, with attacks against both ...

This reporting period covers the month of June.Since the beginning of May, Russian airstrikes over north-west Syria have dramatically intensified ...

This reporting period covers the month of June.After nearly 40 days, the regime has concluded a much-hyped reconciliation drive in ...

Economic crisis and discontent with Self Administration policies continues to foment anger among populations across the north-east, with demonstrations erupting ...

Despite continuing to profit handsomely from the expanding narcotics trade in south Syria, the Assad regime launched a series of ...