Despite Hezbollah's withdrawal from Syria, the traces of its security and intelligence presence remain strongly present, expertly hidden within the Syrian geography. The fighters have departed, but the surveillance and eavesdropping systems remain, particularly in the border areas and areas of...

Syria’s interim foreign minister said in Baghdad on Friday his government was ready to “reinforce cooperation” with Iraq in the fight against remnants of ISIS. Asaad al-Shaibani’s visit to Syria’s neighbour coincided with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announcing...

A delegation of Syrian Druze clerics headed to Israel Friday, an AFP correspondent in southern Syria said, for the first such pilgrimage since Israel’s creation in 1948. Around 60 clerics gathered near the village of Hader, located in the demilitarized buffer zone on the Golan Heights in...

In 2015, an investigative report by Zaman al-Wasl revealed one of the most dangerous deception operations carried out by the Syrian regime. It distributed more than 63,000 forged police ID cards to officers and members of its army and security services, with the aim of deceiving the Arab League...