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...

A humanitarian aid ship carrying 20,000 tons of wheat from Ukraine arrived Thursday at the Toros Port in the Turkish northern province of Samsun as part of a UN World Food Program (WFP) initiative to support crisis-hit regions, including Syria. The Beirut-flagged "Brave Commander" was welcomed...

Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra issued a decision on Thursday canceling the measures taken against individuals who owed financial compensation for military service, including precautionary and executive seizures. This decision comes in the context of the broad changes taking place...