The General Electricity Transmission and Distribution Corporation has approved a "presumptive estimation" mechanism for the consumption of subscribers who lack single-phase meters. Although the decision was presented under the guise of "regulating operations," it implicitly acknowledges the...

Banknote is not merely neutral paper as it may appear on the surface, nor is it simply an exchange tool whose value is measured solely by what it can buy in the market. Rather, at one of its deepest levels, it is a silent discourse of the state—a complex message directed inward before...

Syrian demography is not a marginal footnote in some report by an observatory that has professionalized falsehood, nor is it some ignorant collection of superstitions from books of illogic. Neither is this demography a map to be dissected with a scalpel according to the whims of weaponry and...

Syria’s government has ordered soldiers to guard a mass grave created to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad ‍and has opened a criminal investigation, following a Reuters report that revealed a yearslong conspiracy by the fallen dictatorship to hide thousands of bodies on the remote...