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The UN Security Council on Thursday announced its adoption of Resolution 2799, which removes two individuals, including Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, from its sanctions list for figures associated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) and Al-Qaeda, a move widely celebrated as presaging a revival of Syria’s economy. Fourteen members of the [...]

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced that it has lifted economic sanctions on Syria after the toppling of the repressive Assad regime, in an effort to revive the country’s economy. The EU’s decision to lift all of the restrictive measures includes the removal of 24 entities from the list of those subject to the [...]

Israel’s ongoing military actions in Syria undermine the Arab country’s political transition, and the opportunity for Syria and Israel to form a new security agreement, UN Assistant Secretary General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Khaled Khiari said before the Security Council on Thursday. During the Security Council briefing, Khiari and the head of UN Peace [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

“Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation… The latter is not possible without the former.” Jose Ortega y’ Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958)  For now, the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria has [...]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated on Friday that Syria’s transition to a new government must include marginalized groups if Damascus hopes to secure European support. Her remarks came during a historic visit to the Syrian capital, marking the first high-level European engagement since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad last month. Baerbock emphasized that all Syrians [...]

Demonstrations erupted in several Christian neighborhoods of Damascus and other parts of Syria on Monday demanding protection for Christians in response to the arson of a Christmas tree near Hama, amid ongoing Christmas holiday celebrations. The protests followed the circulation of a viral footage on social media, which depicted hooded individuals setting fire to an [...]

A senior UN aid official called Friday for inclusive governance, the rule of law, and robust humanitarian measures to steer Syria toward a stable transition. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN resident humanitarian coordinator in Syria, emphasized the critical need for unity, humanitarian assistance, and reconstruction in the wake of the Assad regime’s fall. He urged the [...]

Tens of thousands of civilians in northeast Syria are facing a worsening displacement crisis, according to a report that Human Rights Watch released on Wednesday.  According to the report, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated as armed conflicts have intensified, leading to significant population movements and severe shortages of essential resources such as food, water, and [...]

Fighters with the Syrian opposition movement breached the capital Damascus early Sunday, reportedly freeing prisoners held in the country’s Sednaya Prison, according to Reuters and Al Jazeera, with Reuters reporting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled the capital. The opposition is claiming that Assad’s government has fallen, just one week after rebels took the country’s [...]