From tourism to wine, Syrian businesses flounder in post-Assad cultural flux

Shop owners report fewer travellers while bars and wineries hope for legal clarity on alcohol sale ...
The National Interest

Assad Is Gone, Syria’s Captagon Trade Isn’t

Despite its statements vowing to clean up the country, Syria’s new government is unlikely to tackle the profitable narcotics trade. Sharaa and his newly appointed minister of defense, Murhaf Abu Qasra ...
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Syria issues arrest warrant for Bashar Al Assad on murder and torture charges

Syrian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for former president Bashar Al Assad on murder and torture charges, the first legal action against him by the country he ruled for 24 years. However, ...

The Cover-Up: Inside the Plot to Conceal Assad’s Crimes

Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its ...
Al-Monitor

Syrians commemorate uprising anniversary for first time since Assad's fall

This is the first celebration of the Syria's 2011 uprising since the fall of Bashar al-Assad — Bakr ALKASEM Syrians gathered on Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their uprising with a ...
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A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad's ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai's desperate quest. She types her missing husband's name yet again into an ...
The New York Times

A Presidency That Isn’t a Throne

Ms. Mrie is a Syrian journalist and the author of a forthcoming memoir about defiance under Bashar al-Assad. One gray evening in September, a crowd of Syrians — many displaced, exiled or self-exiled — ...