Over the decade of conflict and violence in Syria, scores of international humanitarian law (IHL) violations and international human rights law (IHRL) violations and abuses have been committed by all parties. Efforts to ensure accountability have to da…

Relatively unknown prior to 2011, Samer Foz became one of Syria’s most powerful economic players following the conflict, being likened at one point to the business magnate and maternal cousin to the president, Rami Makhlouf. Despite leading a high prof…

The Damascus governorate appears to be moving towards implementing the provisions of Law No. 3 of 2018, which concerns rubble removal, in parts of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp. It is still unclear how the law will be implemented, especially as …

The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has inaugurated a gas field in Homs with an estimated reserve of 9 billion cubic meters of gas – the first field to be inaugurated since 2009. So far, the government has begun extracting gas from one well…

Damascus Cham Holding Private JSC (DCH) is a private sector holding company fully owned by the Damascus governorate. In 2016, it was set up to develop and manage two large real estate areas in Damascus, as well as various other projects on behalf of th…

AMMAN/ANKARA — The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Tuesday they would coordinate with Syrian government troops to fend off any Turkish invasion of the north and protect Syrian territory.They said the decision came after an emergency meeting o…