In war-torn Syria, Bashar Al-Assad’s regime has exploited conscription to control the society and extract financial resources. This further impoverishes the society while favoring corruption and the president’s centralization efforts.
The devastating earthquake will be a tipping point in modern history, where a large number of Syrians and Turks—myself included—will remember it as one in which many of their loved ones lost their lives.
It seems as though the Assad regime prefers the return of populations going back to rural areas more than those returning to cities.
Since mid-2021, the Syrian regime has introduced a set of new policies targeting a number of vital sectors.
The April 30, 2022 amnesty decree by Bashar al-Assad was presented as a major, unprecedented step toward a post-conflict phase, but real-world data show that little has changed: the situation in Syria remains dire, with ongoing arrests and detentions that violate legal and humanitarian norms.
The overall structure of the Syrian army and armed forces has fallen under the influence of the ruling political regime’s allies since 2011, to varying degrees and at all levels.
Over the past two years, the various battlefields of Syria, Libya and Armenia were a key stage for Russian weapons and especially Russian air defence systems to demonstrate their effectiveness. Despite the Russian claims asserting the effectiveness of Russian weapons, especially Russian…
Almost four years ago, on January 1, 2018, the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, issued Decree No. 1 of 2018, which stipulates a government amendment that includes the Ministers of Defense, Industry and Information, and as a result…
Although 40 years have passed since the recruitment of women into the Syrian Arab Army, the process has not progressed significantly, and remains in the realm of the ruling regime’s need, as a national justification rather than a national need.
The Syrian armed forces deployment strategy matches an emerging strategic threat and makes a return to the barracks unlikely.
