Corruption as an Integrated System Corruption in the Syrian oil sector is not limited to individual cases. Rather, it constitutes a system based on three pillars: information monopoly, alliances of influence, and the absence of accountability. Achieving reform requires dismantling these pillars...

A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of US hostages killed by ISIS in Syria a decade ago, two sources briefed on the mission said, reviving a longstanding effort to recover their bodies. ISIS, which controlled swathes of Syria and Iraq at the peak of its power from 2014 to...

Pakistan launched multiple attacks using drones and other munitions along the entire western border, the Indian army said on Friday morning. The army said the attack took place on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, and that Pakistani “troops also resorted to numerous ceasefire...

US President Donald Trump has decided to cut off direct contact with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a report said Thursday. Yanir Cozin, a correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, said in a post on his X account that Trump made the decision after close associates told Israeli Strategic...