New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.

Various Druze factions and groups in Sweida in southern Syria have combined their forces into a “national guard” that will operate under Druze leader Hikmat al-Hijri, a report on August 23 suggested. Meanwhile, “a prominent Druze leader in southern ...

Syrian opposition forces claim to have taken control of Daraa city in southwestern Syria, inching closer to the capital Damascus. Rebel factions representing the Druze sect in Daraa’s neighboring city of as-Suwayda also launched an offensive against ...

In Deir Az Zor, Raqqa and Aleppo, energy infrastructure hums unevenly. Across the northeast, Syrians live between the promise of a unified government and the caution of decades of uncertainty – their future tethered to the intersection of energy, politics, and human resilience.