Latest Developments President Announces Cabinet: Syrian transitional government leader Ahmad al-Sharaa announced a new government cabinet on March 29, filling 22 ministerial positions over the weekend. The new cabinet includes one woman, Hind Kabawat, as minister of social affairs; one member of the Druze minority, Amgad Badr, as minister of …

On February 27, Abdullah Öcalan, founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), called for the PKK to disarm and dissolve. This announcement, supported by various Kurdish leaders in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), has instilled a sense of hope for peace amid a long-standing conflict that has claimed …

The fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime came not with a grand international declaration, but with the gradual crumbling of a system that had long outlived its foundations and a flash military operation by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Now, the opposition, which once fought for its survival against …