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The View from Damascus – Foreign Fighters in Post-War Syria: Between Integration, Instrumentalization, and Institutional Collapse – The Syrian Observer

In the uneasy interstice between war and peace, Syria grapples with a question striking at the heart of national sovereignty, social cohesion, and institutional legitimacy: what to do with thousands of foreign jihadist fighters who can neither be expelled nor ignored. The recent move to integrate roughly 3,500 of these …

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Conspiracy or Transformation? Revisiting Ambassador Ford’s Remarks on Sharaa, Sanctions, and the Fragile Future Ahead – The Syrian Observer

In a wide-ranging talk, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford traced the astonishing political transformation unfolding in Damascus: from a 14-year civil war and the December 2024 collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the rise of Ahmed al-Sharaa—a former jihadist commander now serving as Syria’s transitional president. Ford began …

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Attack on Hemeimeem Airbase: A Strike on Russia or a Challenge to Syria’s New Leadership? – The Syrian Observer

Several days have passed since a ground assault targeted Russia’s Hemeimeem airbase on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, yet neither Moscow nor Damascus has issued any official statement clarifying the incident. Behind the silence, however, it is widely believed that high-level, behind-the-scenes communications have taken place to address not only the attack …

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