Editorials (480)
A campaign that recently began against one of the leading corruption figures of the former regime has attracted a significant degree of sympathy and solidarity from broad segments of Syrians. It has drawn attention not only to the targeted individual, but also to a broader phenomenon concerning the system of grand corruption as a whole—both old and new—and the extent to which it affects the possibility of the country emerging from its deep crisis.
Kassioun Editorial 1290: “The Mecca Alliance” And the New Regional Order
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These days, the Western media machine, particularly its Zionist wing, is attempting to weave all kinds of myths around the new alliance among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey, whose treaty was signed on Friday, 7 August 2026, in Mecca.
Kassioun Editorial 1289: How Should the Protest Movement Be Engaged?!
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Kassioun has documented more than 250 protest actions—sit-ins, strikes, demonstrations, and others—over the past three months. These took place in nearly all Syrian governorates and were overwhelmingly driven by socioeconomic demands directly connected to Syrians’ living conditions and the hardships they face.
Kassioun Editorial 1288: What is the significance of Guterres’s visit?
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The visit by UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, to Syria, which began on Saturday, 25 July 2026, carries particular significance in terms of both its timing and its implications.
Kassioun Editorial 1287: The Electoral System is The Cornerstone
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With the first session of the new “People’s Assembly” now convened, it has become both urgent and necessary to start thinking about the next People’s Assembly: its actual role and functions, and the legal and political environment within which it will be elected. That environment will determine, to a large extent, its ability to carry out those roles and responsibilities.
Kassioun Editorial 1286: What Comes After the Bombings and the Fuel Crisis?
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Some are attempting to downplay what has taken place over the past two weeks, whether regarding the bombings, the gasoline crisis, or the many other scattered economic, security, and political incidents.
Kassioun Editorial 1285: What Is Needed: Emergency Solutions!
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“After the fall of the former regime, the level of satisfaction with the new situation was higher than the level of dissatisfaction and concern regarding the country’s economic and social conditions. However, one year after the regime’s fall, dissatisfaction with the domestic situation began to increase. The real danger will arise when the level of dissatisfaction exceeds the level of satisfaction over the fall of the previous regime. The degree of public dissatisfaction with living conditions is steadily rising. While this dissatisfaction reflects a certain level of resentment, that resentment has now reached a level of social mobilization”.
Kassioun Editorial 1284: Where To… Internationally, Regionally, and Domestically?
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The fate of Syria—as a people, a state, and as political forces in different places—depends on what we do in the coming weeks and months, and on how quickly we act. It also depends on the rapidly unfolding international and regional developments. These are major and turbulent transformations that must be understood well, and we must act based on that understanding.
Kassioun Editorial 1283: Pressures Are Mounting, and a Turning Point is Inevitable!
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The country is experiencing a persistent deadlock on every level, particularly in the socioeconomic and living conditions of its people, alongside manufactured security and social tensions that increasingly threaten civil peace. All of this is unfolding amid major shifts in the regional balance of power as well as at the international level.
Kassioun Editorial 1282: Syria’s Workers and Farmers Protest Movement Is the Engine of a National Solution
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The scope of protest activity among Syrian farmers and workers is expanding daily across the country. They are demanding their right to a dignified life; the right to wages sufficient to secure housing, feed their children, provide them with education and healthcare; and the right to be treated in a humane and respectful manner, whether by employers or by state institutions.
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Kassioun Editorial 1281: At a Critical Crossroads to Save the Country
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The country is experiencing an extremely dangerous situation on all levels, and it is not “doing well” in any sense. Nevertheless, both the country and the Syrian people have a rare historic opportunity for a fundamental turning point that could lay the foundations for the long-awaited state: a strong, independent, and just state, in which power truly belongs to the Syrian people both officially and in practice. That means power belonging to the more than 90% of Syrians who live below the poverty line; those who produce the nation’s wealth yet receive only a tiny fraction of it; those who come from all ethnicities, religions, sects, and ideological and political backgrounds, united by the fact that they are “underneath”, in contrast to those who are “above”. The latter also come from all ethnicities, religions, and sects, but are united by the fact that they appropriate the greater part of what Syrians produce through their labor and daily toil—and even through the blood they have shed over decades in defending and trying to improve this country.
Among the lessons and conclusions drawn from the Euphrates River’s flooding — and its disastrous effects, which have not yet been fully uncovered — are the following:
Kassioun Editorial 1279: “I Am the People; I Am Moving Forward and I Know My Way!”
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The areas and sectors covered by popular protests taking place daily across the country have become so extensive that merely attempting to count and document them would require a huge team of observers on the ground, as well as in the various communication and social media outlets.
Kassioun Editorial 1278: The Priority of the Economy: Tourist Grandeur or Combatting Poverty?
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The famous English writer Samuel Johnson said in the 18th century: “Facts of life are stubborn things”. In the Syrian reality, the facts of life are stubborn and painful: the realities of rampant poverty, unemployment, IDP camps, a paralyzed economy, and deteriorating education and healthcare. These facts and realities cannot be ignored or bypassed — neither by diverting attention toward secondary sectarian, ethnic, or religious conflicts and contradictions, nor through attempts to numb social consciousness with hypothetical mega-projects that are largely touristic and showy in nature, resembling Beirut’s Solidere alongside an entire country suffering from poverty and slums.