Denmark's latest crackdown on vulnerable Syrian refugees has not come as a surprise. In 2019, the Danish government declared some parts of Syria "safe" - a designation with no basis in reality, and one that has been strongly condemned by international human rights groups and the UNHCR....

Geir Pedersen, the UN’s special envoy for Syria, has put forth a draft agreement designed to promote progress at the next round of talks on Syria’s constitution in Geneva. Copies of the proposed plan were sent to the two co-chairs of the Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC), Ahmad Kuzbari,...

The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France. The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is...

Until Wednesday, Syria's central bank governor Hazem Qarfoul was praised by the state-run media as an intelligent problem solver able to manage the  recent Syrian pound crisis.  However, by afternoon, soon after Bashar al-Assad issued a decree dismissing Qarfoul, the...