Subject: Security and Defense

Despite scattered and not insignificant bouts of fighting since the tripartite ceasefire came into effect last weekend, the general picture ...

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

After a series of different ceasefires beginning late Friday evening failed to halt fighting or force withdrawals from Suwayda by ...

Despite interim authorities fully withdrawing all its forces and affiliated armed groups from Suwayda following a tentative truce reached mid-week, ...

After a kidnapping incident prompted fierce clashes between Bedouin groups and Druze factions in western Suwayda, the interim Ministry of ...

One week ago, Israel launched a wave of aerial attacks targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, military and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ...

Despite the promises of recent diplomatic engagements and the lifting of US and EU sanctions, Syria’s security situation remains fractious ...

An outbreak of armed clashes and anti-Druze sectarian violence in Suwayda province and the Rural Damascus towns of Jaramana and ...

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

The online leak of an audio recording allegedly depicting a Druze cleric insulting the Prophet Muhammad changed the security picture ...