Over the past weekend, the already-tenuous security situation in Daraa and Suweida, southern Syria, has taken a turn for the worse amidst escalating attacks led by the Popular Resistance, an insurgency group operating in the region. Just this weekend alone, three separate shootings, attributed to th...

Last Sunday, 7th July, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moallem, met with the Omani Foreign Minister, Yusuf bin Alawi. During the discussions, which took place in Damascus, the two sides discussed bilateral relations and regional developments and security. B...