The new electricity bills have reached Syrian households, igniting what little patience people had left. Silent complaints have turned into open anger at the logic of unjust collection from the pockets of ordinary people—some of whom stated plainly, “I won’t…

Decree No. 13, issued last Friday, 16 January 2026, concerning the Kurdish issue in Syria—in parallel with practical agreements on the ground between the government and the SDF—has created a positive atmosphere in a country starving for an end to…

The agreement signed by Mohammad Hamsho last Wednesday, 7 January 2026, with the “National Committee for Combating Illicit Enrichment” sparked widespread—and justified—anger among the Syrian public. The agreement appeared to justify and legitimize “illicit enrichment”, rather than combat it.

On the surface, what happened in Venezuela appears to be a victory for the US—the strong, dominant power that strikes wherever and whenever it wishes and imposes its will by various means, including iron and fire, military coups, and criminality.…

On February 17, 2011, in Damascus’s al-Hariqa market—before any foreign interventions, before any influx of money or weapons, and as a natural, spontaneous result of the accumulated oppression, injustice, and anger—crowds of Syrians chanted in the face of the authorities…

Last Thursday, December 19, while celebrating “Hanukkah” at the White House, Trump made a number of statements regarding the occupied Syrian Golan, boasting that he had “given it to Israel”, describing it as land rich enough to be worth trillions…

Despite the great efforts to create a festive atmosphere around the current Syrian situation, it seems – according to the popular saying – like “sprinkling sugar on death”. The facts are clear and stark about the depth of the accumulated…

“Today, a dark page in the history of Syria and the Syrian people has been turned. It was a page in which an entire people were squeezed into its narrow margins, enduring every form of suffering, oppression, deprivation, pain, displacement,…

Over the past weeks, the noise of sectarian rhetoric—both in its “peaceful” and violent forms—has grown louder. This has been accompanied by an intensified division of Syrians into opposing and polarized groups, through demonstrations and marches, repeating the miserable scene…

The official statements made last July—chief among them the remarks of the Governor of the Central Bank of Syria, who affirmed that, in accordance with the directives of the Presidency of the Republic, the country would not resort to external…